Theresa McElroy

Affiliate Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Corporate Director, Strategic Management, Office of Strategy and Results, Providence Health Care

Academic Affiliations

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Research Theme

Evidence to Innovation

Research Group

Changing Behaviours: Knowledge Discovery to Translation

Clinical Practice, Outcomes & Innovation

Global Health & Innovations

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Research Areas

Contact

Theresa.McElroy@vch.ca

Overview: My research has focused on various aspects of child health, development and rehabilitation in communities in Canada, Uganda and India. I have a particular interest in the complex layers of influence on children's health and well being- from the daily environments to the systems that can support or create barriers to access to appropriate care and supports.
Publications: Effectiveness of a SEL/mindfulness program on Northern Ugandan children
International Journal of School & Educational Psychology
DOI: 10.1080/21683603.2020.1760977
05/2020
Implementation study of a 5-component pediatric early warning system (PEWS) in an emergency department in British Columbia, Canada, to inform provincial scale up
BMC Emergency Medicine
Theresa McElroy and Erik N. Swartz and Kasra Hassani and Sina Waibel and Yasmin Tuff and Catherine Marshall and Richard Chan and David Wensley and Maureen O’Donnell
DOI: 10.1186/s12873-019-0287-5
12/2019
Implementation study of a 5-component pediatric early warning system (PEWS) in an emergency department in British Columbia, Canada, to inform provincial scale up
BMC Emergency Medicine
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.12228/v3
11/2019
Implementation Study of a 5-component Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) in an Emergency Department in British Columbia, Canada, to inform provincial scale up
Theresa A McElroy and Erik N. Swartz and Kasra Hassani and Sina Waibel and Yasmin Tuff and Catherine Marshall and Richard Chan and David Wensley and Maureen O'Donnell
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.12228/v2
10/2019
BRIGHT Coaching: A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of a Developmental Coach System to Empower Families of Children With Emerging Developmental Delay
Frontiers in Pediatrics
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2019.00332
08/2019
Implementation Study of a 5-component Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) in an Emergency Department in British Columbia, Canada, to inform provincial scale up
Theresa A McElroy and Erik N. Swartz and Kasra Hassani and Sina Waibel and Yasmin Tuff and Catherine Marshall and Richard Chan and David Wensley and Maureen O'Donnell
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.12228/v1
08/2019
Preparedness for physiotherapy in private practice: Novices identify key factors in an interpretive description study
Manual Therapy
Atkinson, R. and McElroy, T.
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2015.10.016
2016
Risks to early childhood health and development in the postconflict transition of northern Uganda.
International Journal of Pediatrics
McElroy TA and Atim S and Larson CP and Armstrong RW
DOI: 10.1155/2012/820290
PubMed: 22518183
02/2012
War, displacement and productive occupations in Northern Uganda
Journal of Occupational Science
10/2011
Navigating a way forward: using focused ethnography and community readiness to study disability issues in Ladakh, India.
Disability and rehabilitation
McElroy TA and Davis A and Hunt C and Dadul J and Stanba T and Larson C
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.485670
PubMed: 20446808
05/2010
Mothering in a Time of Conflict: Acholi Women’s Experience of Child Rearing in the Displacement Camps of Northern Uganda
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.
2010
Understanding the barriers to clubfoot treatment adherence in Uganda: a rapid ethnographic study.
Disability and rehabilitation
McElroy T and Konde-Lule J and Neema S and Gitta S and Uganda Sustainable Clubfoot Care
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701240102
PubMed: 17577719
06/2007
Research: BRIGHT Coaching
We have been working with researchers across Canada to develop a coaching system for parents of preschool children with identified or suspected developmental delays who are waitlisted for services. Our goal is to empower families during this transition period and to study the outcomes of offering this support.
Implementation of the Pediatric Early Warning System in BC
At Child Health BC, we have been studying the Implementation of the Pediatric Early Warning System in BC. This system has been implemented in health facilities (both inpatient and emergency departments) throughout our province. BC PEWS is designed to help health care teams to systematically identify early signs of risk in children, and to mitigate those risks sooner to improve results. We are studying how this system is implemented, what healthcare workers think about this system, and its impacts on care and on health outcomes.

Grants

The CHILD-BRIGHT Network is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) under Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Initiative.

Honours & Awards

Poster Award for Systems Innovation: McElroy T, Moffat S, Tuff Y, Swartz E, Marshall C, Sallows M, Unger M, Wensley D, O’Donnell M. Piloting a Pediatric Early Warning System for BC Emergency Departments. (Poster Presentation). CAPHC Conference. October 22-24, 2017, Quebec, Canada.
Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program (CCHCSP) Doctoral Salary Award supported by the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR).
Child and Family Research Institute and Centre for International Child Health Doctoral Salary Award.
Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Doctoral Research Award.
Human Early Learning Partnership Thesis Funding, University of British Columbia.

Research Group Members

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