Masking and Ventilation during COVID-19
Unintended Consequences/Outcomes of Masking in Response to COVID-19 in Non-Health Care Community-Based Settings
Project Status:Complete
Knowledge User(s)
Public Health Agency of Canada
Patient/Public Partner(s)
Caron Leid, Tayaba Khan
Project Trainee(s)
Katie Gaetz, Michael Ibekaku, Melissa Ignaczak, Jade McLaughlin, Martine Nyhof, Meghan Warmerdam
Funding Source(s)
- Public Health Agency of Canada
Project Objectives
To determine the best-available evidence about the unintended health and social consequences/outcomes (positive and negative) of masking in response to COVID-19 in non-health care community-based settings
Research Approach
Living Evidence Synthesis
Project Lead(s)
Marilyn MacDonald
Marilyn Macdonald is a Professor in the School of Nursing, and Director of the Joanna Briggs Centre of Excellence in the conduct of systematic reviews at Dalhousie University. She served as Theme Lead for Transitions in Care with the Canadian Frailty Network and Nova Scotia Lead for the Pan-Canadian Safety in Home Care study. She has a varied background in clinical nursing including general surgery, neurosurgery, cardio-vascular surgery, public-health nursing, home care, and a decade as a clinical nurse specialist. Her research population of interest is the older person in relation to home care, unpaid caregivers and care systems integration. Her research has contributed to mapping the terrain of safety in home care, recommending changes in home care delivery, and setting priorities for research in this domain.
Marilyn MacDonald
Professor, Dalhousie University
Marilyn Macdonald is a Professor in the School of Nursing,...