Christine Voss
BSc, MSc, PhD
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Investigator, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Children and Youth With Type 1 Diabetes: A Cross-sectional Analysis
Canadian Journal of Diabetes
Tyrell C. Sideroff and Nicholas Wall and Simran Gill and Trent Smith and Christine Voss
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjd.2026.03.00507 / 2026
Cognitive skills in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: a scoping review and meta-analysis
BMJ OPEN DIABETES RESEARCH & CARE
DOI: 10.1136/BMJDRC-2025-005635Behaviour change techniques and physical activity outcomes in interventions for children with type 1 diabetes: A scoping review
DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIABRES.2026.113321The diabetes distress experience from the perspective of adolescents and their parents
FRONTIERS IN CLINICAL DIABETES AND HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.3389/FCDHC.2026.1652578Differential Associations Between Device-Assessed and Parent-Reported Physical Activity With Indicators of Mental Health in Children and Youth With Disabilities
PEDIATRIC EXERCISE SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1123/PES.2023-0178Growing Up With Congenital Heart Disease: A Qualitative Research Study of Parents and Clinicians Experiences and Perspectives
CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
F. Dylan Nemes and Erica V. Bennett and Kevin C. Harris and Nicholas Wall and Christine Voss
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2024.10.00602 / 2025
School-Based Physical Activity Levels and Quality of Physical Education Participation Experiences of Children with Physical and Sensory Disabilities Living in British Columbia, Canada
DISABILITIES
DOI: 10.3390/DISABILITIES5010008Optimizing the integration of family physicians into cancer survivorship care in the BC Interior: a mixed methods study of physicians' opinions and experiences
Journal of Cancer Survivorship
DOI: 10.1007/S11764-025-01751-2Canadian children and youth with disabilities are not meeting the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines: Cross-sectional results from the national physical activity measurement (NPAM) study for children and youth with disabilities
Disability and Health Journal
DOI: 10.1016/J.DHJO.2025.101842Validity of the Fitbit wearable activity monitor to estimate step counts in free-living conditions in ambulatory children and youth living with disability
Disability and Rehabilitation
DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2479655Using Qualitative Geospatial Methods to Explore Physical Activity in Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Feasibility Study
DISABILITIES
DOI: 10.3390/DISABILITIES4040053Primary care provider-led cancer survivorship care in the first 5 years following initial cancer treatment: a scoping review of the barriers and solutions to implementation
Journal of Cancer Survivorship
DOI: 10.1007/S11764-022-01268-YA Physical Activity Counselling Intervention Is Feasible And Acceptable To Children With Congenital Heart Disease
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Feasibility Of Qualitative Geospatial Methods To Explore Physical Activity In Children With Developmental Disabilities
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Feasibility and Utility of a Fitbit Tracker Among Ambulatory Children and Youth With Disabilities
Pediatric Exercise Science
DOI: 10.1123/PES.2022-0121Toward a Better Understanding of Causal Factors Related to Physical Activity in Children With CHD: Some Answers, More Questions
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
DOI: 10.1016/J.CJCA.2021.10.005Patterns of Early Coronary Artery Changes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Detected Using Optical Coherence Tomography
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.121.012486Association of Preoperative Diuretic Use With Early Acute Kidney Injury in Infants With Biventricular Hearts Following Cardiac Surgery
Journal of the American Heart Association
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020519Evaluation of conventional troponin I testing for the detection of myocardial dysfunction in children
Paediatrics & Child Health
DOI: 10.1093/PCH/PXAA011Children with congenital heart disease exhibit seasonal variation in physical activity
PLOS ONE
Mimi T. Y. Kuan and Christine Voss and Jimmy Lopez and Nicole M. Hemphill and Kevin C. Harris
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.024118711 / 2020
From it makes me feel free to they wont let me play: the body and physical activity-related perceptions and experiences of children with congenital heart disease and their parents
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health
E. V. Bennett and C. Voss and G. Faulkner and K. C. Harris
DOI: 10.1080/2159676x.2019.171085801 / 2020
Physical activity measurement in people with spinal cord injury: comparison of accelerometry and self-report (the Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with Spinal Cord Injury)
Disability and Rehabilitation
Ma, J.K. and McCracken, L.A. and Voss, C. and Chan, F.H.N. and West, C.R. and Martin Ginis, K.A.
DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2018.1494213Physical Activity Is Associated With Better Vascular Function in Children and Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Lopez, J.R. and Voss, C. and Kuan, M.T.Y. and Hemphill, N.M. and Sandor, G.G.S. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.12.019Fontan-Associated Liver Disease: Spectrum of Disease in Children and Adolescents
Journal of the American Heart Association
Rathgeber, S.L. and Guttman, O.R. and Lee, A.F. and Voss, C. and Hemphill, N.M. and Schreiber, R.A. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.119.012529Optical Coherence Tomography for the Early Detection of Coronary Vascular Changes in Children and Adolescents After Cardiac Transplantation: Findings From the International Pediatric OCT Registry
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
McGovern, E. and Hosking, M.C.K. and Balbacid, E. and Voss, C. and Berger, F. and Schubert, S. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.04.025Pulmonary artery wall thickness in children with Fontan physiology: An optical coherence tomography case control study
Cardiology in the Young
McGovern, E. and Voss, C. and Brunner, N.W. and Duncombe, S. and Harris, K.C. and Hosking, M.H.
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951119000362Cardiac consequences of spinal cord injury: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Heart
Williams, A.M. and Gee, C.M. and Voss, C. and West, C.R.
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2018-313585Quality of Life is Associated With Age and Executive Function in Children With Congenital Heart Disease
Circulation
Aortic Stiffness is Negatively Associated With Physical Activity in Children With Congenital Heart Disease
Circulation
Public Health Benefits of Active Transportation
Children's Active Transportation
Christine Voss
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-811931-0.00001-6Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease
Congenital Heart Disease
Harris, K.C. and Voss, C. and Rankin, K. and Aminzadah, B. and Gardner, R. and Mackie, A.S.
DOI: 10.1111/chd.12612Digital behaviour change interventions to address sedentarism. Evaluation of a 4-month Fitbit intervention to increase physical activity levels in children with congenital heart disease
Journal of Physical Activity & Health
Coronary artery intimal thickening and ventricular dynamics in pediatric heart transplant recipients
Congenital Heart Disease
Cote, A.T. and Hosking, M. and Voss, C. and Human, D.G. and Sandor, G.G.S. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1111/chd.12629Wrist Accelerometry for Physical Activity Measurement in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury"A Need for Individually Calibrated Cut-Points
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
McCracken, L.A. and Ma, J.K. and Voss, C. and Chan, F.H. and Martin Ginis, K.A. and West, C.R.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2017.10.024Intimal thickening at coronary bifurcations in pediatric heart transplant recipients
Pediatric Transplantation
Duncombe, S.L. and Hosking, M.C.K. and Cot, A.T. and Voss, C. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1111/petr.13100Oscillometric and auscultatory blood pressure measurement methods in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal of Hypertension
Duncombe, S.L. and Voss, C. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001178Validity of Commercial Activity Trackers in Children With Congenital Heart Disease
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Voss, C. and Gardner, R.F. and Dean, P.H. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2016.11.024Validity and reliability of the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children (PAQ-C) and Adolescents (PAQ-A) in individuals with congenital heart disease
PLoS ONE
Voss, C. and Dean, P.H. and Gardner, R.F. and Duncombe, S.L. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175806Urban and suburban children's experiences with school travel " A case study
Journal of Transport and Health
Race, D.L. and Sims-Gould, J. and Lee, N.C. and Frazer, A.D. and Voss, C. and Naylor, P.-J. and McKay, H.A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2017.01.011Physical activity evaluation in children with congenital heart disease
Heart
Voss, C. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2017-311340Does parental support influence children's active school travel?
Preventive Medicine Reports
Mah, S.K. and Nettlefold, L. and Macdonald, H.M. and Winters, M. and Race, D. and Voss, C. and McKay, H.A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.04.008'Oscillometric': a type of device, not a type of measurement. Oh when will they ever learn? Reply
Journal of Hypertension
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001393Pathologic Liver Changes are Universally Present in Children With Fontan Physiology but Do Not Correlate With Fibroscan
Circulation
Physical activity and sedentary behavior in children with congenital heart disease
Journal of the American Heart Association
Voss, C. and Duncombe, S.L. and Dean, P.H. and de Souza, A.M. and Harris, K.C.
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004665Evidence on the accuracy of automated blood pressure monitors in children: quantity versus quality Reply
Journal of Hypertension
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001282Aortic Stiffness is Associated With Coronary Artery Intimal Thickening in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients
Circulation
Environmental and psychosocial correlates of objectively measured physical activity among older adults.
Health Psychology
Lena Fleig and Maureen C. Ashe and Christine Voss and Suzanne Therrien and Joanie Sims-Gould and Heather A. McKay and Meghan Winters
DOI: 10.1037/hea000040312 / 2016
Does Activity Space Size Influence Physical Activity Levels of Adolescents? - A GPS study of an urban environment.
Preventive medicine reports
Lee, Nolan C and Voss, Christine and Frazer, Amanda D and Hirsch, Jana A and McKay, Heather A and Winters, Meghan
Public transit use and physical activity in community-dwelling older adults: Combining GPS and accelerometry to assess transportation-related physical activity
Journal of Transport and Health
Voss, C. and Sims-Gould, J. and Ashe, M.C. and McKay, H.A. and Pugh, C. and Winters, M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2016.02.011Associations between showering behaviours following physical education, physical activity and fitness in English schoolchildren
European Journal of Sport Science
Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.
DOI: 10.1080/17461391.2014.987321Does activity space size influence physical activity levels of adolescents?-A GPS study of an urban environment
Preventive Medicine Reports
Lee, N.C. and Voss, C. and Frazer, A.D. and Hirsch, J.A. and McKay, H.A. and Winters, M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.12.002The Use of Activity Trackers with Exercise Prescription in Children with Congenital Heart Disease
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000487304.35950.71Cardiovascular control, autonomic function, and elite endurance performance in spinal cord injury
Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports
West, C.R. and Gee, C.M. and Voss, C. and Hubli, M. and Currie, K.D. and Schmid, J. and Krassioukov, A.V.
DOI: 10.1111/sms.12308Delayed bedtime due to screen time in schoolchildren: Importance of area deprivation
Pediatrics International
Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.
DOI: 10.1111/ped.12447The good, the bad and the ugly of catheterization practices among elite athletes with spinal cord injury: A global perspective
Spinal Cord
Krassioukov, A. and Cragg, J.J. and West, C. and Voss, C. and Krassioukov-Enns, D.
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2014.208Fitness testing for children: Let's mount the zebra!
Journal of Physical Activity and Health
Cohen, D.D. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.H.
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2013-0345Differences in adolescents' physical activity from school-travel between urban and suburban neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver, Canada
Preventive Medicine Reports
Frazer, A. and Voss, C. and Winters, M. and Naylor, P.-J. and Higgins, J.W. and McKay, H.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.02.008Prevalence of elevated mean arterial pressure and how fitness moderates its association with BMI in youth (vol 16, pg 2046, 2013)
Public Health Nutrition
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014002225Six-year changes in body mass index and cardiorespiratory fitness of English schoolchildren from an affluent area
International Journal of Obesity
Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2015.105School-travel by public transit: Rethinking active transportation.
Preventive medicine reports
Voss, Christine and Winters, Meghan and Frazer, Amanda and McKay, Heather
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.01.004Where do they go and how do they get there? Older adults' travel behaviour in a highly walkable environment
Social Science and Medicine
Winters, M. and Voss, C. and Ashe, M.C. and Gutteridge, K. and McKay, H. and Sims-Gould, J.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.006Association between habitual school travel and muscular fitness in youth
Preventive Medicine
Cohen, D. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Taylor, M. and Voss, C. and Micklewright, D. and Sandercock, G.R.H.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.07.036Athletic performance and birth month: Is the relative age effect more than just selection bias?
International Journal of Sports Medicine
Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Parry, D.A. and Cohen, D.D. and Taylor, M.J.D. and Voss, C.
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1368725They go straight home - dont they? Using global positioning systems to assess adolescent school-travel patterns
Journal of Transport & Health
Voss, Christine and Winters, Meghan and Frazer, Amanda D. and McKay, Heather A.
Walking Further to School Increases Physical Activity in a Dose-Dependent Manner
Journal of Physical Activity & Health
They go straight home - don't they? Using global positioning systems to assess adolescent school-travel patterns
Journal of Transport and Health
Voss, C. and Winters, M. and Frazer, A.D. and McKay, H.A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jth.2014.09.013Associations Between School-Travel Physical Activity and Neighbourhood Type in Metro Vancouver Adolescents
Journal of Physical Activity & Health
Journal of Transport & Health
Journal of Transport & Health
Voss, Christine and Winters, Meghan and Frazer, Amanda D. and McKay, Heather A.
A cross-cultural comparison of body composition, physical fitness and physical activity between regional samples of Canadian and English children and adolescents
Canadian Journal of Public Health
Voss, C. and Sandercock, G. and Higgins, J.W. and Macdonald, H. and Nettlefold, L. and Naylor, P.-J. and McKay, H.
DOI: 10.17269/cjph.105.4478Predicting Active Travel to School: The role of Preference and Parental Encouragement
Journal of Physical Activity & Health
Health Promoting Secondary Schools: Community-Based Research Examining Voice, Choice and the School Setting
Journal of Child and Adolescent Behaviour
Joan Wharf Higgins
DOI: 10.4172/jcalb.1000118Prevalence of elevated mean arterial pressure and how fitness moderates its association with BMI in youth
Public Health Nutrition
Ogunleye, A.A. and Sandercock, G.R. and Voss, C. and Eisenmann, J.C. and Reed, K.
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012004466Quantification of the relative age effect in three indices of physical performance
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Sandercock, G.R.H. and Taylor, M.J. and Voss, C. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Cohen, D.D. and Parry, D.A.
DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e318291b28dPhysical Activity Questionnaire for children and adolescents: English norms and cut-off points
Pediatrics International
Voss, C. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Sandercock, G.R.H.
DOI: 10.1111/ped.12092Associations between perceived parental physical activity and aerobic fitness in schoolchildren
Journal of physical activity & health
Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.10.3.397Centile curves and normative values for the twenty metre shuttle-run test in English schoolchildren
Journal of Sports Sciences
Sandercock, G. and Voss, C. and Cohen, D. and Taylor, M. and Stasinopoulos, D.M.
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2012.660185Temporal relationships between screen-time and physical activity with cardiorespiratory fitness in English Schoolchildren: A 2-year longitudinal study
Preventive Medicine
Aggio, D. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.H.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.04.012Prevalence of high screen time in English youth: Association with deprivation and physical activity
Journal of Public Health
Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr074Achilles tendon shape and echogenicity on ultrasound among active badminton players
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
Malliaras, P. and Voss, C. and Garau, G. and Richards, P. and Maffulli, N.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01156.xA Comparison Of Weight Status And Health-related Fitness Between Canadian And English 10-yr Olds
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Screen time and physical activity in youth: thief of time or lifestyle choice?
Journal of physical activity & health
Sandercock G, R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.
DOI: 10.1123/jpah.9.7.977Recreational cycling and cardiorespiratory fitness in english youth
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Maher, M.S. and Voss, C. and Ogunleye, A.A. and Micklewright, D.P. and Sandercock, G.R.H.
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318235158aComparison of cardiorespiratory fitness and body mass index between rural and urban youth: Findings from the east of England healthy hearts study
Pediatrics International
Sandercock, G.R.H. and Ogunleye, A. and Voss, C.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2011.03354.xTen-year secular changes in muscular fitness in English children
Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
Cohen, D. and Voss, C. and Taylor, M. and Delextrat, A. and Ogunleye, A. and Sandercock, G.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02318.xContrasting physical activity patterns in children and adolescents living in differing environments in the UK
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Ogunleye, A.A. and Voss, C. and Barton, J.L. and Sandercock, G.R.H. and Pretty, J.N.
DOI: 10.1177/1403494811406315Ten year secular declines in the cardiorespiratory fitness of affluent English children are largely independent of changes in body mass index
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Sandercock, G. and Voss, C. and McConnell, D. and Rayner, P.
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.162107Associations between habitual school-day breakfast consumption, body mass index, physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in English schoolchildren
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Sandercock, G.R.H. and Voss, C. and Dye, L.
DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2010.145Aerobic fitness and mode of travel to school in english schoolchildren
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181b11bdcHandgrip strength in English schoolchildren
Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
Cohen, D.D. and Voss, C. and Taylor, M.J.D. and Stasinopoulos, D.M. and Delextrat, A. and Sandercock, G.R.H.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2010.01723.xAssociations between school-day breakfast consumption, BMI, physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in English schoolchildren
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
DOI: 10.1017/S0029665109992436Vertical jumping and leg power normative data for English school children aged 10-15 years
Journal of Sports Sciences
Taylor, M.J.D. and Cohen, D. and Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.R.H.
DOI: 10.1080/02640411003770212Does the twenty meter shuttle-run test elicit maximal effort in 11- to 16-year-olds?
Pediatric Exercise Science
Voss, C. and Sandercock, G.
DOI: 10.1123/pes.21.1.55Twenty-metre shuttle run test performance of English children aged 11 - 15 years in 2007: Comparisons with international standards
Journal of Sports Sciences
Sandercock, G. and Voss, C. and Gladwell, V.
DOI: 10.1080/02640410801910301Honours & Awards
Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award - Excellence in Education 2022
UBC Science Co-op Supervisor Recognition Award 2017
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