Current Projects
Factors associated with weight loss in patients with acute heart failure. J. Palmer (PI), Milligan, A.F. Kaan, M. Toma & M.H. Mackay. Granting Agency: Providence Health Care Research Challenge.
Delivery of self-management through a peer-support telehealth intervention in patients with cardiovascular disease: The Healing Circles. A. Davoodi, B. Sakakibara, A. Zbib, A. Krahn, T. Sedlak, M.H. Mackay, J. Singer, J. McGladrey & D. Whitehurst. Granting Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Coronary Revascularization: a Tool for Evidence-based, Individualized, Shared Decision Making (CR-Decide) K.H. Humphries & C. Norris (PIs); J. Spertus, P. Aikman, B.J. O’Neill, C.J. Decker, M. Gao, M. Izadnegahd, M.H. Mackay. Granting Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
The use of text messaging to improve the hospital-community transition and prevent readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease (Txt2Prevent). S. Lear (PI), A. Hagan-Johson, M. H. Mackay, B. Sakakbara, M. Toma, H. Van Spall, D. Whitehurst. Granting Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Acute Coronary Syndrome Care in Emergency Departments (ASCEND)
Mackay, M. H. (Principal Investigator), Humphries, K. H., Ratner, P., Scheuermeyer, F., Veenstra, G., & Kornder, J. Granting agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Completed Projects
Smoke-free men: Translating research findings through a tobacco reduction website for cancer prevention action
Oliffe, J., & Bottorff, J. (Principal Investigators), Boomer, J., Caperchione, C., Currie, L., Frank, B., & Mackay, M. Granting agency: Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute.
Evaluation of an intervention to enhancing in-centre hemodialysis patients' self-care ability
Trask, M. (Principal Investigator), Marchuk, S., Huyhnh, F., Kiaii, M., Rozon, C., Carter, G., Morrison, D., Min, H., Evangelista, E., Sekic, A., & Mackay, M. Granting agency: Providence Health Care Research Challenge.
Acute Coronary Syndrome Care in Emergency Departments (ASCEND): Pilot Study
Mackay, M. H. (Principal Investigator), Humphries, K. H., Ratner, P. A. Granting agency: University of British Columbia School of Nursing.
Exploration of Experiences of Caregivers of Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices
Kaan, A.F. (Principal Investigator), Mackay, M. H., Young, Q. R., & Cockell, S. Granting agency: International Society of Heart-Lung Transplantation.
Ethnicity and Cardiac Disease
Mackay, M. H., (Principal Investigator). Granting agency: Cardiac Services of BC.
Validation of the Screening Tool for Psychological Distress (STOP-D) in an inpatient cardiac population
Young, Q. R., (Principal Investigator), Roth, S., Nguyen, M., Broadberry, A., & Mackay, M. H. Granting agency: Providence Health Care Research Challenge.
What is the Incidence of Tobacco Use after Heart Transplantation? Self-Report versus Cotinine
Kaan, A. F., (Principal Investigator), Young, Q. R., & Mackay, M. H. Granting agency: International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Social Sciences Grant.
Gender Differences in Reported Symptoms of Cardiac Ischemia
Ratner, P. A., & Mackay, M. H. (Principal Investigators), Buller, C., Johnson, J. L., Zumbo, B, & Fox, R. Granting agency: BC Medical Services Foundation.
The Efficacy of a Smoking Cessation Intervention for Elective-Surgical Patients
Ratner, P. A., (Principal Investigator), Johnson, J., Bottorff, J., Fofonoff, D., Mackay, M., Kingsbury, K., Miller, C., et al. Granting agency: National Cancer Institute of Canada.
Using the World Wide Web to Deliver a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to Patients at Home
Bates. J. (Principal Investigator), Mackay, M., Johnson, J. L. Granting agency: Health Canada (Health Infrastructure Support Program).
Developing Support to Prevent Smoking Relapse Among Cardiac Patients: A Pilot Study
Bottorff, J. L. (Principal Investigator), Johnson, J. L., Ratner, P. A., Miller, C., Kingsbury, K., Mackay, M., et al. Granting agency: BC Medical Services Foundation.
Evaluation of a Nurse-Delivered Smoking Cessation Intervention for Hospitalized Patients.
Johnson, J. L. (Principal Investigator), Budz, B., Mackay, M. & Bouthillette, F. Granting agency: British Columbia Health Research Foundation and British Columbia Medical Services Foundation.
Evaluation of a Cardiac Risk Factor Counselling Intervention Immediately Before Hospital Discharge
Mackay, M. (Principal Investigator), Schwartz, L., Fofonoff, D., Heppell, L., Barr, S., Gin, K., & Ignaszewski, A. Granting agency: Merck Frosst Canada.
Blood sampling practices in critical care? How critical are they?
Venis, J. (Principal Investigator), Marles, M.,. O'Reagan, M., & Mackay, M.H.. Granting agency: Providence Health Care Research Challenge.
Gender Differences in Treatment Seeking for Acute Coronary Syndromes
Ratner, P. (Principal Investigator), Johnson, J., Mackay, M., Zumbo, B., Kingsbury, K., Buller, C. E. Granting agency: CIHR
Gender Differences in Reported Symptoms of Cardiac Ischemia
Ratner, P.A., Mackay, M. (Co-Principal Investigators), Buller, C., Johnson, J. L., Zumbo, B., and Fox, R. Granting agency: BC Medical Services Foundation
