Geneviève Roch is a nurse and professor at the Laval University Nursing School. In addition to being a regular researcher in the area of population health and optimal health practices at the CHU de Québec–Laval University, she is attached to the Centre de recherche sur les soins et les services de première ligne de l’Université Laval (CERSSPL-UL) and to the research centre of the CISSS Chaudière-Appalaches. She is co-leader of the Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research (RRISIQ) platform. Her work focuses on the optimization of health practices and services, through integrated mobilization and knowledge translation strategies in order to support the best clinical and administrative decisions. She uses mixed methods in most of her research projects. Her expertise is on the intersection of health services organization and knowledge translation, mainly in the areas of perinatality and the service continuum between health establishments and service network partners. The quality and relevance of her work were recently recognized with the award of “Tribute to Social Innovation” prize (2015) and the 2014-2016 Award for Excellence in Research from the Laval University Nursing School.
Online and group perinatal education: Towards the optimization of services
Research program on the organization and impact of online prenatal education with users and healthcare professionals. She is currently conducting a project funded by the CIHR (2016) under the Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI) program to evaluate the impacts of online and group prenatal education on health determinants and users’ health status, as well as on networks of perinatal educational services with community-based partners.
Relevailles: a social innovation at the core of research projects and knowledge translation
Geneviève Roch was in charge of the development and implementation of a research program on perinatal services that encompasses two collaborative research projects with knowledge translation strategies and one knowledge utilization/diffusion project. The first study, carried out with a network of perinatal resource centres, focused on perinatal vulnerability and evaluation of a postnatal home support service called “Relevailles”. The second study, which was conducted in partnership with several policy and decision makers, ranked 1st in the CIHR competition on interventional research. Its aim was to evaluate the Relevailles services offered by family community organizations and to examine the nature of their collaborations with healthcare facilities. A third project, funded by the Ministry of Education, supported the dissemination of results to consolidate the expertise gained through different knowledge translation strategies, including a website intended for the public. The findings so far have informed various guidelines on intersectoral collaborations and perinatal services.
Ferdinand-Vandry, local 3645
Université Laval, Québec
Canada G1K 7P4
Latest news
Integration of sex and gender in a continuing professional development course on diabetes and depression: a mixed methods feasibility study
Journal ArticleBMJ Open, 12 (4), 2022.
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Interventions facilitating access to perinatal care for migrant women without medical insurance: A scoping review protocol
Journal ArticlePLoS One, 17 (3), 2022.
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Web-Based Training for Nurses on Using a Decision Aid to Support Shared Decision-making About Prenatal Screening: Parallel Controlled Trial
Journal ArticleJMIR Nurs, 5 (1), 2022.
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Les centres de ressources périnatales (CRP) : portrait d’un segment méconnu du tiers secteur québécois
Journal ArticleReflets, 26 (1), 2020.
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"They heard our voice!" patient engagement councils in community-based primary care practices: a participatory action research pilot study
Journal ArticleRes Involv Engagem, 6 , 2020.
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Web-Based Training for Nurses on Shared Decision Making and Prenatal Screening for Down Syndrome: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal ArticleJMIR Res Protoc, 9 (10), 2020.
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Future Directions for the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) Tool: Response to Recent Commentaries
Journal ArticleInt J Health Policy Manag, 8 (5), 2019.
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Collaborative governance in the Quebec Cancer Network: a realist evaluation of emerging mechanisms of institutionalization, multi-level governance, and value creation using a longitudinal multiple case study design
Journal ArticleBMC Health Serv Res, 19 (1), 2019.
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Défis pratiques et méthodologiques de trois expériences doctorales avec devis mixte
Book ChapterM, Bujold; QN, Hong; V, Ridde; CJ, Bourque; MJ, Dogba; I, Vedel; P, Pluye (Ed.): Oser les défis des méthodes mixtes en sciences sociales et sciences de la santé, pp. 100-119, Montréal, QC, Association francophone pour le savoir, 2018, ISBN: 9782892451603.
How to engage patients in research and quality improvement in community-based primary care settings: protocol for a participatory action research pilot study
Journal ArticleRes Involv Engagem, 4 , 2018.
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Active projects
- Impacts des cours prénataux de groupe et en ligne : vers une optimisation des services, from 2016-04-01 to 2023-03-31
- Meilleures Pratiques en Oncologie Pédiatrique : recherche appliquée auprès des Familles (MP OncoPed-Familles), from 2021-04-01 to 2027-03-31
- Scaling up shared decision making for patient-centred care, from 2018-07-01 to 2025-06-30
- Training Intervention and Program of Support (TIPS) for fostering the adoption of family-centred telehealth interventions in pediatric rehabilitation: A pan-Canadian implementation-effectiveness study, from 2021-10-01 to 2025-09-30
- «L'expérience d'habiter son logement subventionné» Besoins et pratiques de soutien communautaire comme piliers du renforcement du pouvoir d'agir, de l'entraide et de la solidarité dans la communauté, from 2020-03-15 to 2022-09-30
Recently finished projects
- Comprendre la prolifération infodémique pour contrer la désinformation: une approche intégrée de la société vers l'individu, from 2021-04-01 to 2021-11-30
- Design for Better Health: User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Interactive Media for Health Education, Communication and Decision-Making, from 2016-07-01 to 2021-06-30
- Gouvernance collaborative du Réseau de cancérologie du Québec : une évaluation réaliste des mécanismes d'institutionnalisation, de la gouvernance multi-paliers et de la création de valeur par le biais d'une étude de cas multiples longitudi, from 2018-06-30 to 2021-09-30
- Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la paternité, la famille et la société, from 2017-04-01 to 2021-03-31
- Impacts de la crise de la COVID-19 sur les services et la santé périnatale: Comprendre pour agir !, from 2021-07-12 to 2022-04-30
- Impacts du contexte et des mesures liées à la COVID-19 sur la transformation des services de soutien et la santé périnatale des femmes enceintes, des futurs pères et de leur enfant, from 2021-04-21 to 2022-03-31
- Impacts et optimisation des services d'éducation prénatale de groupe et en ligne: Stratégies d'application des connaissances en situation de COVID-19, from 2020-08-17 to 2020-12-16
- Réseau de recherche en interventions en sciences infirmières du Québec (RRISIQ), from 2012-04-13 to 2021-04-30
- Soutien à la préparation d'une demande IRSC COVID-19 et périnatalité, from 2019-04-01 to 2021-03-31
- Training Intervention and Program of Support (TIPS) for fostering the adoption of family-centred telehealth interventions in pediatric rehabilitation: A pan-Canadian implementation-effectiveness study, from 2021-10-01 to 2022-03-31
- Unpacking COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada, from 2021-07-01 to 2022-05-31