BC Healthy Connections Project Publications
Undergoing Academic Journal Peer Review
Delivering enhanced programming as intended and greater child benefits
Catherine, N.L.A., Zheng, Y., Xie, H., Boyle, M., Jack, S., MacMillan, H., & Waddell, C. (Undergoing peer review). Effectiveness of Nurse-Family Partnership on child outcomes by patterns of program intensity: Secondary evidence from a randomized controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project).
Published
Effectiveness of enhanced programming for young, first-time mothers and children in BC, Canada
Catherine, N.L.A., MacMillan, H., Jack, S., Zheng, Y., Xie, H., Boyle, M., Sheehan, D., Gonzalez, A., Gafni, A., Tonmyr, L., Barr, R., Marcellus, L., Varcoe, C., & Waddell, C. (2025). Effects of nurse-home visiting on intimate partner violence and maternal income, mental health and self-efficacy by 24 months postpartum: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project) . British Medical Journal Open, 15, e083147. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083147
Catherine, N.L.A., MacMillan, H., Cullen, A., Zheng, Y., Xie, H., Boyle, M., Sheehan, D., Lever, R., Jack, S. M., Gonzalez, A., Gafni, A., Tonmyr, L., Barr, R., Marcellus, L., Varcoe, C., & Waddell, C. (2023). Effectiveness of nurse-home visiting in improving child and maternal outcomes prenatally to age two years: A randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project) . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65, 644 – 655. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13846
Catherine, N.L.A., Boyle, M., Zheng, Y., McCandless, L., Xie, H., Lever, R., Sheehan, D., Gonzalez, A., Jack, S.M., Gafni, A., Tonmyr, L., Marcellus, L., Varcoe, C., Cullen, A., Hjertaas, K., Riebe, C., Rikert, N., Sunthoram, A., Barr, R.G., MacMillan, H., Waddell, C. (2020). Nurse home visiting and prenatal substance use in a socioeconomically disadvantaged population in British Columbia: Analysis of a prenatal secondary outcomes in an ongoing randomized controlled trial . Canadian Medical Association Journal Open , 8 , E667–E675. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200063
Reach and inclusion of Urban-Indigenous children and mothers across BC
Catherine, N.L.A., Leason, J, Marsden N, Barker B, Cullen A, Simpson A, Berry B.A., Mohns E, Yung D, Zhen Y, MacMillan H., & Waddell C. (2025). Understanding the experiences of young, urban, Indigenous mothers-to-be in British Columbia, Canada . BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 25 (1), 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-07070-1
Effective home visiting programs for children and mothers experiencing adversities
Inclusion and sustained engagement of children and mothers across BC
Catherine, N.L.A., Hjertaas, K., Cullen, A., Zheng, Y., Amhaz, H., Lever, R., Gray-Grant, D., Waddell, C. (2021). Reaching Underserved Children and Families: Lessons from the BC Healthy Connections Project
Catherine, N.L.A., Lever, R., Marcellus, L., Tallon, C., Sheehan, D., MacMillan, H., Gonzalez, A., Jack, S.M., Waddell, C. (2020). Retaining participants in community-based health research: A case example on standardized planning and reporting . Trials , 21 , 393–405. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04328-9
Catherine, N.L.A., Lever, R., Sheehan, D, Zheng, Y., Boyle, M., McCandless, L., Gafni, A., Gonzalez, A., Jack, S.M., Tonmyr, L., Varcoe, C., MacMillan, H., Waddell, C. (2019). The British Columbia Healthy Connections Project: Findings on socioeconomic disadvantage in early pregnancy . BMC Public Health, 19 , 1161–1171. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7479-5
BCHCP RCT study design and protocol
Catherine N.L.A., Gonzalez, A., Boyle, M., Sheehan, D., Jack, S.M., Hougham, K., McCandless, L., MacMillan H., Waddell, C., for the BC Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team. (2016). Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting: A randomized controlled trial protocol . BMC Health Services Research , 16 , 349–362. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1594-0
BCHCP process evaluation
Marcellus, L., Tonmyr, L., Jack, S.M., Gonzalez, A., Sheehan, D., Varcoe, C., Kurtz Landy, C., Campbell, K., Catherine, N., MacMillan, H., & Waddell, C. (2022). Public health nurses’ perceptions of their interactions with child protection services when supporting socioeconomically disadvantaged young mothers in British Columbia, Canada . Child Abuse & Neglect , 124, 105426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
Jack, S.M., Gonzalez, A., Marcellus, L., Tonmyr, L., Varcoe, C., Van Borek, N., Sheehan, D., MacKinnon, K., Campbell, K., Catherine, N.L.A., Kurtz Landy, C., MacMillan, H., Waddell, C. (2021). Public health nurses’ professional practices to prevent, recognize, and respond to suspected child maltreatment in home visiting: An interpretive descriptive study . Global Qualitative Nursing Research , 8, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/Campbell, K., MacKinnon, K., Dobbins, M., Van Borek, N., Jack, S., Catherine, N.L.A., Gonzalez, A., Kurtz Landy, C., MacMillan, H., Marcellus, L., Sheehan, D., Tonmyr, L., Varcoe, C., Waddell, C. (2019). Weathering the rural reality: Delivery of the Nurse-Family Partnership home visitation program in rural British Columbia, Canada . BMC Nursing , 18, e1–14. https://doi.org/10.1186/
BCHCP Process Evaluation Final Reports hosted at McMaster University School of Nursing
BCHCP Healthy Foundations Study
Gonzalez, A., Catherine, N.L.A., Boyle, M., Jack, S.M., Atkinson, L., Kabor, M., Sheehan, D., Tonmyr, L., Waddell, C., MacMillan, H., for the Healthy Foundations Study Team. (2018). Healthy Foundations Study: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate biological embedding of early life experiences . BMJ Open , 8, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1136/
