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Buckler E. J., De-Jongh González O., Ball G. D. C., Hamilton J., Ho J., Morrison K. M., Mâsse L. C. (2023) Recruiting families using social media versus pediatric obesity clinics: A secondary analysis of the Aim2Be RCT . Contemporary Clinical Trials , 133: 107322. doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2023.107322
De-Jongh González O., Hutchison S., Tugault-Lafleur C. N., O’Connor T. M., Hughes S. O., Mâsse L. C. (2023) Patterns of physical activity parenting practices and their associations with children’s physical activity behaviors . Childhood Obesity . doi.org/10.1089/chi.2022.0226
Tugault-Lafleur, C., De-Jongh González, O., MacDonald, J., Bradbury, J., Warshawski, T., Hamilton, J., Ho, J., Buchholz, A., Morrison, K., Ball, G.D.C. & Mâsse, L.C. (2023). Efficacy of Aim2Be intervention in changing lifestyle behaviours among adolescents with overweight and obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial . JMIR . doi: 10.2196/38545
Hutchison, S.M., Brain, U., Grunau, R.E., Kuzeljevic, B., Irvine, M., Mâsse, L.C. , & Oberlander, T.F. (2023). Associations between maternal depressive symptoms and selective serontonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant treatment on internalising and anxiety behaviours in children: 12-year longitudinal study . BJPsych Open , 9(2), e26. doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.623
De-Jong González, O., Tugault-Lafleur, C., Buckler, E.J., Hamilton, J., Ho, J., Buchholz, A., Morrison, K.M., Ball, G.D.C., & Mâsse, L.C. (2022). The Aim2Be mHealth intervention for children with overweight and obesity and their parents: A person-centered analysis to uncover digital phenotypes . Journal of Medical Internet Research , 24(6), e35285. doi.org/10.2196/35285
Deslippe, A., De-Jong González, O., Buckler, E.J., Ball, G.D.C., Ho, J., Bucholz, A., Morrison, K.M., & Mâsse, L.C. (2022). Do individual characteristics and social support increase children’s use of an mHealth intervention? Childhood Obesity . doi.org/10.1089/chi.2022.0055
Choi, A., Mâsse, L.C. , Bardwell, S., Kayda, I., Zhao, Y., Zi, Y.X., Markarian, A., Coombs, D., Macdonald, A., Watts, A.W., Dhillon, N., Irvine, M., O’Reilly, Lavoie, P.M., & Goldfard, D.M. (2022). Symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 schools, British Columbia, Canada April to June 2021 . Microbiology Spectrum . doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00622-22
Buckler, E.J., Mâsse, L.C. , Faulkner, G.E., Puterman, E., & Naylor, P.J. (2022). Implementing active play standards: A qualitative study with licensed childcare providers in British Columbia, Canada . Health Promotion International , daac036, doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac036
Deslippe, A.L., O’Connor, T.M., Brussoni, M., & Mâsse, L.C. (2022). The association of food parenting practices with adolescents’ dietary behaviors differ by youth gender, but not by parent gender . Appetite , 169(1), 105846 doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105846
Ezzat, A.M., Brussoni, M. Mâsse, L.C. , Barton, C.I., & Emery, C.A. (2022). New or recurrent knee injury, satisfaction with physical activity, and osteoarthritis beliefs in a cohort of young female athletes at 2-3 years after ACLR and matched healthy peers . Sports Health . doi.org/10.1177%2F19417381221091791
Goldfarb, D.M., Mâsse, L.C. , Watts, A.W., Hutchison, S.M., Muttucomaroe, L., Bosman, E.S., Barakauskas, V.E., Choi, A., Irvine, M.A., Reicherz, F., Coombs, D., O’Reilly, C., Sediqi, S., Razzaghian, H.R., Sadarangani, M., O’Brien, S.F., & Lavoie, P.M. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among Vancouver public school staff in British Columbia, Canada: A cross-sectional study . BMJ Open ;12:e057846. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2021-057846
Hutchison, S.M., Watts, A., Gadermann, A., Oberle, E., Oberlander, T.F., Lavoie, P.M., & Mâsse, L.C. (2022). School staff and teachers during the second year of COVID-19: Higher anxiety symptoms, higher psychological distress, and poorer mental health compared to the general population . Journal of Affective Disorders Reports : 100335. doi: 10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100335
Tugault-Lafleur, C., Naylor, P-J., Carson, V., Faulkner, G., Lau, E.Y., Wolfenden, L., & Mâsse, L.C. (2022). Does an Active Play Standard change childcare physical activity and healthy eating policies? A natural policy experiment . BMC Public Health , 22, 687. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13079-y
Skouteris, H., Green, R., Chung, A., Bergmeier, H., Amir, L.H., Baidwan, S.K., Chater, A., Chamberlain, C., Emond, R., Gibbons, K., Gooey, M., Hatzikiriakidis, K., Haycraft, E., Hills, A., Higgins, D., Hooper, O., Hunter, S., Kappelides, P., Kleve S., Krakouer J., Lumeng J., Manios Y., Mansoor, A., Marmot, M., Mâsse, L.C , Matvienko-Sikar, K., Mchiza, Z.J., Meyer, C., Moschonis, G., Munro, E., O'Connor, T.M., O'Neil, A., Quarmby, T., Sandford, R., Schneiderman, J., Sherriff, S., Simkiss, D., Spence, A., Sturgiss, E., Vicary, D., Wickes, R., Wolfenden, L., Story, M., Black, M. (2022). Nurturing children’s development through healthy eating and active living: Time for policies to support effective interventions in the context of responsive emotional support and early learning . Health and Social Care in the Community . DOI: 10.1111/hsc.14106
Watts, W.W., Hutchison, S.M., Bettinger, J.A., Gadermann, E.O., Oberlander. T.F., Goldfarb, D.M., Lavoie, P.M., & Mâsse, L.C. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine intentions and perceptions among public school staff of the greater Vancouver metropolitan area, British Columbia, Canada . Frontiers in Public Health – Public Health Education and Promotion, 10, 83244. doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.832444
De-Jongh González, O., Tugault-Lafleur, C.N., O’Connor, T.M., Hughes, S.O., & Mâsse, L.C. (2021). Are fathers’ and mothers’ food parenting practices differentially associated with children’s eating behaviors? Appetite, 166:105434. doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105434
Tugault-Lafleur, C.N., De-Jongh González, O., O’Connor, T.M., Hughes, S.O., & Mâsse, L.C. (2021). Identifying and predicting food parenting practice profiles among Canadian parents . International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity , 18(59):5. doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01119-6
Brussoni, M., Han, C.S., Lin, Y., Jacob, J., Pike, I., Bundy, A., Faulkner, G., Gardy, J., Fisher, B., & Mâsse, L.C. (2021). A web-based and in-person risk reframing intervention to influence mothers’ tolerance for, and parenting practices associated with, children’s outdoor risky play: Randomized controlled trial . Journal of Medical Internet Research , 23(4):e24861. doi: 10.2196/24861
Caswell, S., Naylor, P-J., Olstad, D., Kirk, S., Mâsse, L.C. , Raine, K., & Hanning, R. (2021). Recreation facility food and beverage environments in Ontario Canada: An appeal for policy . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public health . 18(15):8174
Deslippe, A.L., Tugault-Lafleur, C.N., McGaughey, T., Naylor, P-J., Le Mare, L., & Mâsse, L.C. (2021). Gender plays a role in adolescents’ dietary behaviors s they transition to secondary school . Appetite , 167, 105642. doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105642
Ezzat, A.M., Brussoni, M., Mâsse, L.C. , Emery, C.A. (2021). Effect of anterior cruciate ligament rupture on physical activity, sports participation, patient-reported health outcomes, and physical function in young females . The American Journal of Sports Medicine , 49(6): 1460-1469. DOI: 10.1177/03635465211002530
Ezzat, A.M., Whittaker, J.L., Brussoni, M., Mâsse, L.C. , & Emery, C.A. (2021). The English knee self-efficacy scale is a valid and reliable measure for knee specific self-efficacy in individuals with a sport-related knee injury in the past five years . Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy , 29, 616-626. doi.org/10.1007/s00167-020-05974-x
Gardiner, E., Hutchison, S., McLachlan, K., Rasmussen, C., Pei, J., Mâsse, L.C. , Oberlander, T.F., & Reynolds, J.N. (In Press). Behavior regulation skills are associated with adaptive functioning in children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure . Applied Neuropsychology: Child . 1-11. doi:10.1080/21622965.2021.1936528
Han, C., Brussoni, M., & Mâsse, L.C. (2022). Parental autonomy support in the context of parent-child negotiation for children’s independent mobility: “I always feel safer with my parents” to “Boom! Bust down those walls!” The Journal of Early Adolescence , 1-28. doi.org/10.1177/02724316211064513
Hutchison, S.M., Holley, P., Manuel, A., Mâsse, L.C. , Oberlander, T.F., & Jedwad, J. (2021) Adolescents during COVID-19: Youth disabilities more likely to report challenges with anxiety and mental health . Journal of Affective Disorders Reports , 4, 2021, 100072. doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2020.100072
Hutchison, S. M., Mâsse, L.C. , Pawluski, J.L., & Oberlander, T.F. (2021). Perinatal selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and other antidepressant exposure effects on anxiety and depressive behaviors in offspring: A review of findings in humans and rodent models . Reproductive Toxicology , 99: 80-95. doi:10.1016/j.reprotox.2020.11.013
Korn, A.R., Appel, J., Hammond, R.A., Hennessy, E., Mâsse, L.C. , Must, A., Economos, C.D. (2021). Validation and refinement of the stakeholder-driven community diffusion survey for childhood obesity prevention . Implementation Science , 19: 91
Lin, Y. & Mâsse, L.C. , (2021). A look at engagement profiles and behavior change: A profile analysis examining engagement with the Aim2Be lifestyle behavior modification app for teens and their families . Preventive Medicine Report . 24(3):101565. DOI:10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101565
Mâsse, L.C. , Edache, I.Y., Pitblado, M., & Hutchison, S.M. (2021). The impact of financial and psychological wellbeing on children’s physical activity and screen-based activities during the COVID-19 pandemic . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 18, 8694, doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168694
Kirk, S.F., Olstad, D.L., McIsaac, J-L., Prowse, R.J.L., Caswell, S., Hanning, R., Raine, K.D., Mâsse, L.C. , & Naylor, P.J. (2021). Appetite for change? Facilitators and barriers to nutrition guideline implementation in Canadian recreational facilities . Health Promotion International , 36(6), 1672-1682. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daab017
Perdew, M., Lui, S., Rhodes, R., Ball, Geoff, Mâsse, L.C. , Hartrick, T., & Naylor, P-J. (2021). The effectiveness of a blended in-person and online family-based childhood obesity management program . Childhood Obesity , 17(1) doi.org/10.1089/chi.2020.0236
Piatkowski, C., Keidar, S., Carbert, N., Naylor, P.J., McKay, H., Hanning, R., Le Mare, L., & Mâsse, L.C. (2021). Codevelopment of healthy and unhealthy dietary behaviors: A dyadic examination of parenting practices and adolescent characteristics . Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior , 53(3): 254-260. doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2020.10.013
Wu, Y., Marc, I., Bouchard, L., Ouyang, F., Luo, Z-C., Fan, J., Dubois, L., Mâsse, B., Zhang, J., Leung, P.C.K, Liao, X.P, Herba, C.M., Booij, L., Shen, J., Lewin, A., Jiang, H., Wang, L., Xu, J., Wu, W., Sun, W., Wu, J., Li, H., Lei, C., Kozyrskyj, A.,; Semenic, S., Chaillet, N., Fortier, I., Mâsse, L.C. , Zhan, J., Allard, C., Knoppers, B., Zawati, M., Baillargeon, J.P., Velez, M., Zhang, H., Yu, Y., Yu, W., Ding, Y., Vaillancourt, C., Liu, H., Tetu, A., Fang, W., Zhang, R., Zhao, X., Jin, Y., Liu, X-M., Zhang, H., Chen, Z., Yang, X., Hao, Y., Abdelouahab, N., Fraser, W., & Huang, H-F. (2021). Study protocol for the Sino-Canadian Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (SCHeLTI): a multicentre, cluster-randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial of a multifaceted community-family-mother-child intervention to prevent childhood overweight and obesity . BMJ Open , 11: e045912. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-045192
Brussoni, M., Lin, Y., Han, C., Janssen, I., Schuurman, N., Boyes, R., Swanland, D., & Mâsse, L.C. (2020). A qualitative investigation of unsupervised outdoor activities for 10- to 13-year-old children in Metro Vancouver, Canada: “I like adventuring but I don’t like adventuring without being careful” . Journal of Environmental Psychology , 70: 101460. DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101460
Han, C.S., Lin, Y., Mâsse, L.C. , Brussoni, M.J. (2020). “There’s kind of a wall I have to stay inside of”: A qualitative understanding of children’s independent mobility range, destination, time and expansion . Children, Youth and Environments , 30(2): 97-188. jstor.org/stable/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.30.2.0097
Hassani, K., Buckler, E.J., McConnell-Nzunga, J., Fakih, S., Scarr, J., Mâsse, L.C. , & Naylor, P.J. (2020). Implementing Appetite to Play at scale in British Columbia: Evaluation of a capacity-building intervention to promote physical in the early years . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 17(4): 1132. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041132
Hutchison, S.M., Rathgeber, S., De Souza, A., Armstrong, K., Mâsse, L.C. , & Oberlander, T.F. (2020). Adolescents with solid organ transplant: Using the BRIEF2 parent-report and self-report to measure parent-child agreement and everyday executive function . Applied Neuropsychology , 1(10): 2162-2965. doi: 10.1080/21622965.2020.1800468
Mâsse, L.C. , O’Connor, T.M., Lin, Y., Carbert, N.S., Hughes, S.O., Baranowski, T., & Beauchamp, M. (2020). The physical activity parenting practices (PAPP) item bank: A psychometrically validated tool for improving the measurement of physical activity parenting practices of parents of 5-12-year-old children . International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity , 17: 134. doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01036-0
Mâsse, L.C. , O’Connor, T.M., Lin, Y., Hughes, S.O., Tugault-Lafleur, C.N., Baranowski, T., & Beauchamp, M. (2020). Calibration of the food parenting practice item bank: Tools for improving the measurement of food parenting practices of parents of 5-12 year-old children . International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity , 17: 140. doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-01049-9
Mâsse, L.C. , Tu, A.W., Watts, A., Hughes, S.O., O'Connor, T.M. (2020). What parenting practices do US and Canadian parents use to encourage or discourage healthy eating among their 5-12 year old children? Preventive Medicine Report , 20: 101234. doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101234
Mâsse, L.C. , Vlaar, J., Macdonald, J., Bradbury, J., Warshawski, T., Buckler, E.J., Hamilton, J., Ho, J., Buchholz, A., Morrison, K., Ball, G.D.C. (2020). Aim2Be an mHealth intervention for children with overweight and obesity: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial . Trials , 21(1): 132. DOI:10.21203/rs.2.14266/v2
McConnell-Nzunga, J., Mâsse, L.C. , Buckler, E.J., Carson, V., Faulkner, G.E., Lau, E.Y., McKay, H.A., Temple, V.A., Wolfenden, L., & Naylor, P.J. (2020). Prevalence and relationships among physical activity policy, environment and practices in licensed children centers from manager and staff perspective . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 17(3): 1064. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17031064
McGaughey, T., Vlaar, J., Naylor, P.J., Hanning, R., LeMare, L., & Mâsse, L.C. (2020). Individual and environmental factors associated with participation in physical activity as adolescents’ transition to secondary school: A qualitative inquiry . International Journal of Environment Research and Public Health . 17(20): 7646. doi:10.3390/ijerph17207646
Olstad, D.L., Prowse, R., Raine, K., Tomlin, D., Kirk, S., McIsaac, J.L., Mâsse, L.C. , Caswell, S., Hanning, R. & Naylor, P.J. (2020). Baseline results from the Eat, Play, Live trial: A randomized controlled trial within a natural experiment examining the role of nutrition policy and capacity building in improving food environments in recreation sport facilities . Food Policy , 92: 101870. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101870
Piatkowski, C., Faulkner, G., Guhn, M., & Mâsse, L.C. (2020). User characteristics and parenting practices associated with adolescents’ initial use of a lifestyle behaviour modification intervention . Childhood Obesity , 16(6): 367-378. doi.org/10.1089/chi.2020.0035
Prowse, R.J.L., Naylor, P.J., Olstad, D.L., Storey, K., Carson, V., Mâsse, L.C. , Kirk, S.F.L., Raine, K. (2020). Impact of a capacity building intervention on food marketing features in recreation facilities . Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviour , 52(10): 935-943. doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2020.03.009
Rhodes, R.E., Guerrero, M.D., Vanderloo, L.M., Barbeau, K., Birken, C.S., Chaput, J-P., Faulkner, G., Janssen, I., Madigan, S., Mâsse, L.C. , McHugh, T-L., Perdew, M., Stone, K., Shelley, J., Spinks, N., Tamminen, K.A., Tomasone, J.R., Ward, H., Welsh, F., Tremblay, M.S. (2020). Development of a consensus statement on the role of the family in the physical activity, sedentary, and sleep behaviours of children and youth International . Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity , 17: 74. doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-00973-0