BC Healthy Connections Project Reports and Publications Prepared in Collaboration with the Ministry of Health and MCFD

 

The BC Healthy Connections Project was funded by the BC Ministry of Health with support from the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development.

BC Healthy Connections Project Reports

Waddell, C., Catherine, N., Sheehan, D., for the BC Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team. (2016). BC Healthy Connections Project: Scientific overview. Vancouver, BC: Children’s Health Policy Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU (15 pages).

Waddell, C., Catherine, N., MacMillan, H., Lever, R., Wallis, P., Sheehan, D., Boyle, M., Gafni, A., McCandless, L., Tonmyr, L., Gonzalez, A., Jack, S., Barr, R., Varcoe, C., Marcellus, L., for the BC Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team. (2018). Preparing to parent in British Columbia: A profile of participants in the BC Healthy Connections Project. Vancouver, BC: Children’s Health Policy Centre, SFU (41 pages).

Catherine, N., Cullen, A., Zheng, Y., Gray-Grant, D., Waddell, C. (2022). BC NFP randomized controlled trial findings: BC Healthy Connections Project prenatal to age two years. Vancouver, BC: Children’s Health Policy Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU (33 pages).

Catherine, N., Waddell, C. (2022). BC NFP summary of randomized controlled trial findings: Prenatal to age two years. Vancouver, BC: Children’s Health Policy Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU (seven pages).

BC Healthy Connections Project Academic Publications

Catherine, N., Gonzalez, A., Boyle, M., Sheehan, D., Jack, S., Hougham, K., McCandless, L., MacMillan, H., Waddell, C., for 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. BioMedCentral Health Services Research, 16, e349–362. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1594-0.

Catherine, N., Lever, R., Marcellus, L., Tallon, C., Sheehan, D., MacMillan, H., Gonzalez, A., Jack, S., Waddell, C. (2020). Retaining participants in community-based health research: A case example on standardized planning and reporting. BMC Trials, 21, e1–12. https:doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04328-9.

Catherine, N., Boyle, M., Zheng, Y., McCandless, L., Xie, H., Lever, R., Sheehan, D., Gonzalez, A., Jack, S., Gafni, A., Tonmyr, L., Marcellus, L., Varcoe, C., Cullen, A., Hjertaas, K., Riebe, C., Rikert, N., Sunthoram, A., Barr, R., MacMillan, H., Waddell, C. (2020). Nurse home visiting and prenatal substance use in a socioeconomically disadvantaged population in British Columbia: Analysis of prenatal secondary outcomes in an ongoing randomized controlled trial. Canadian Medical Association Journal Open, 8, e667–675. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200063.

Catherine, N., MacMillan, H., Cullen, A., Zheng, Y., Xie, H.,,Boyle, M., Sheehan, D., Lever, R., Jack, S., 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; https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13846.

Catherine, N., 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 (BC Healthy Connections Project). British Medical Journal Open 15:e083147; doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083147.

Catherine, N., Leason, J., Marsden, N., Barker, B., Cullen, A., Simpson, A., Berry, B., Mohns, E., Yung, D., Zheng, Y., MacMillan, H., Waddell, C. (2025). Understanding the experiences of young, urban, Indigenous mothers-to-be in British Columbia, Canada. BioMedCentral Pregnancy and Childbirth 25: 42; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-07070-1.