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Judy WuestJudith Wuest RN, BScN, MN, PhD

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Judith Wuest
Honorary Research Professor & Professor (Retired)
Phone: (506) 458-7666
Fax: (506) 453-4519
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Long term effects of woman abuse


Education summary

  • BScN (U of T)
  • MN (Dal)
  • PhD (Wayne State)

Research interests

  • Women’s health
  • Violence against women
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Workplace bullying
  • Family caregiving
  • Grounded theory
  • Mixed methods
  • Intervention studies

Biography:

Over the past 20 years, I have engaged in two programs of research in women’s health, one linked to family caregiving and the other to violence against women.

My expertise initially was grounded theory particularly from a feminist perspective.  However, as my research program expanded, the questions emerging from the findings required mixed methods and theory testing approaches.

I was fortunate to hold a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Investigator Award (2002-2007) and UNB Research Scholar Award (2007-2009) that allowed me to concentrate on building this program of research with a team of scholars from New Brunswick and from across Canada.

We have received funding from CIHR, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, and New Brunswick Health Research Foundation (NBHRF).  Our most recent project is a Partnerships in Health System Improvement Grant from CIHR and NBHRF to examine the feasibility of a primary health care intervention for women who have left abusive partners.

I currently serve on the CIHR Gender, Sex & Health Review Panel and review regularly for several journals such as Qualitative Health Research, Advances in Nursing Science, and Health Care for Women International. 

I particularly enjoy working with graduate students whose work intersects with my interests and sometimes have funding from my research grants to support them.

Current funding:

  • 2011-2016 Addressing the Consequences of Violence and Trauma: A Health Intervention for Women in an Indigenous Context.  Varcoe, C., Browne, A., Ford-Gilboe, M. (co-PIs),Bungay, V.,  Garrett, C., Littlejohn, D., Merritt-Gray, M., Moretti, M., Smye, V., Wuest, J.  Funded by CIHR Operating Grant 1,364,687
  • 2010-2013 Men’s Health Promotion and Work Engagement in the Context of Workplace Bullying—MacIntosh (PI), Wuest & Bulman. Funded by CIHR Regional Partnership Program
  • 2010-2015 Problems, Predictors, and Progression of Sexual Functioning among Adolescents—O’Sullivan (PI), Byers, Brotto, Majerovich, & Wuest. Funded by CIHR
  • 2009-2012 Feasibility and Efficacy of a Primary Health Care Intervention for Women in the Early Years After Leaving an Abusive Partner—Wuest (PI), Merritt-Gray, Dubé, Hodgins, Majerovich, Ford-Gilboe, Varcoe.  Funded by CIHR & NBHRF, Partnerships in Health System Improvement
  • 2007-2011 - The Effects of Personal. Social, and Economic Resources on Physical and Mental Health of Women in the Early Years after Leaving an Abusive Partner: Waves 3, 4, & 5 – Ford-Gilboe (UWO), Varcoe (UBC), Wuest (co-PIs); Merritt-Gray, MacIntosh (co-Is). Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grant

Recent peer-reviewed publications

  • Wuest J. (In Press).  Are we there yet? Positioning qualitative research differently.  Qualitative Health Research
  • Varcoe, C., Hankivsky, O., Ford-Gilboe, M., Wuest, J., & Wilk, P & Campbell. J. (In Press). Attributing     selected costs to intimate partner violence in a sample of women who have left abusive partners: A social determinants of health approach. Canadian Public Policy.
  • Ponic, P., Varcoe, C., Davies, L., Hammerton, J., Ford-Gilboe, M., & Wuest, J. (In Press). Leaving, moving: Housing patterns of women who have left an abusive partner.  Violence Against Women. 
  • Wuest, J. & Hodgins, M.J. (2011). Reflections on methodological approaches and conceptual contributions in a program of caregiving research: Development and testing of Wuest’s theory of family caregiving. Qualitative Health Research, 21,  151-161.
  • Wuest, J., Malcolm, J. & Merritt-Gray, M. (2010). Daughters’obligation to care in the context of past abuse. Health Care for Women International, 31, 1047-1067.
  • MacIntosh, J., Wuest, J., Merritt Gray, M., & Aldous, S. (2010). Effects of workplace bullying on how women work. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 32, 910-931.
  • MacIntosh, J., Cronkhite, M., Wuest, J., & Merritt Gray, M. (2010). Workplace bullying in health care affects meaning of work. Qualitative Health Research, 20, 1128-1141.
  • Wuest, J.,, Ford-Gilboe, M., Merritt-Gray, M, Wilks, P., Campbell, J.C., Lent, B., Varcoe, C., & Smye, V. (2010). Pathways of chronic pain in survivors of intimate partner violence. Journal of Women’s Health, 19, 1665-1674.
  • Wuest, J.,, Ford-Gilboe, M., Merritt-Gray, M, Varcoe, C., Lent, B., Wilks, P., & Campbell, J.C. (2009). Abuse-Related Injury and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as Mechanisms of Chronic Pain in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Pain Medicine,10(4), 739-747.
  • Ford-Gilboe, M., Wuest, J., Varcoe, C., Davies, L., Merritt-Gray, M., Hammerton, J., Wilk, P., &  Campbell, J. (2009) Modeling the Effects of Intimate Partner Violence and Access to Resources on Women's Health in the Early Years after Leaving an Abusive Partner.  Social Science and Medicine. 68, 1021-1029.
  • Wuest, J., Merritt-Gray, M., Ford-Gilboe, M., Lent, B., Varcoe, C., & Campbell, J.C. (2008). Chronic pain in women survivors of intimate partner violence.  Journal of Pain,9(11), 1049-1057.
  • Wuest, J., & Merritt Gray, M. (2008). A theoretical understanding of abusive intimate partner relationships that become non violent: Shifting the pattern of abusive control.  Journal of Family Violence, 23, 281-293.
  • Wuest, J., Merritt Gray, M., Lent, B., Varcoe, C., Connors, A., & Ford Gilboe, M. (2007). Patterns of medication use among women survivors of intimate partner violence. Canadian Journal of Public Health,98(6), 460 464.
  • Hodgins, MJ., & Wuest, J. (2007).  Uncovering factors affecting use of the emergency department for less urgent health problems in urban and rural areas. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 39(3),78 102.
  • Wuest, J., Hodgins, MJ., Malcolm, J., Merritt Gray, M., & Seaman, P.  (2007). The effects of past relationship and obligation on health and health promotion in women caregivers of adult family members. Advances in Nursing Science,30(3), 206 20.

Recent student publications

  • O’Donnell, S., MacIntosh, J., & Wuest, J. (2010). A theoretical understanding of sickness absence among women who have experienced workplace bullying.  Qualitative Health Research, 20, 439-452.
  • Scott-Storey, K., Wuest, J., & Ford-Gilboe, M. (2009). Intimate partner violence and cardiovascular risk: Is there a link?. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 65(10), 2186–2197. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05086.x  
  • Furlong, K., & Wuest, J. (2008). Self-Care Behaviors of Spouses Caring for Significant Others With Alzheimer's Disease: The Emergence of Self-Care Worthiness as a Salient Condition. Qualitative Health Research, 18, 1662 - 1672. 
  • Read, T. & Wuest, J. (2007). Daughters caring for dying parents: a process of relinquishing. Qualitative Health Research, 17(7), 932 44.
  • Rickards, T. & Wuest, J. (2006). The process of losing and regaining credibility when coming out at mid life. Health Care for Women International, 6(27), 530-547.

Recent book chapters

  • Ford-Gilboe, M., Varcoe, C., Wuest, J., & Merritt-Gray, M. (2010). Intimate partner violence and nursing practice.  In J. Humphreys and J. C. Campbell (Eds.), Family violence and nursing practice. (pp. 115-154).  New York: Springer.
  • Wuest, J. (2012). Grounded theory: The method.  In. P. Munhall (Ed.) Nursing research: A qualitative perspective. 5th Edition (pp. 239-272). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.