User profiles for Kathleen Kenny

Kathleen S. Kenny

University of Manitoba
Verified email at umanitoba.ca
Cited by 428

“I felt for a long time like everything beautiful in me had been taken out”: Women's suffering, remembering, and survival following the loss of child custody

KS Kenny, C Barrington, SL Green - International journal of drug policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Child Protective Services’ (CPS) placements of children in out-of-home care
disproportionately impact families marginalized by poverty, racism and criminalization. CPS’ …

Mental health harm to mothers when a child is taken by child protective services: health equity considerations

KS Kenny - The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Most recent available census data indicate 47,885 young people were living in foster care
through the child protection system in Canada in 2011. 1 Although placement of a child in …

Health consequences of child removal among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous sex workers: examining trajectories, mechanisms and resiliencies

KS Kenny, A Krüsi, C Barrington… - Sociology of health & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The child protection system can be a highly consequential institution for mothers who are
sex workers, yet scant attention has been paid to the health consequences of its policies on …

Family separation and maternal self-rated health: Evidence from a prospective cohort of marginalized mothers in a Canadian setting

KS Kenny, F Ranville, SL Green, P Duff… - Maternal and Child …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives Involuntary child removal via the child protection system disproportionately affects
marginalized women, yet the impacts on maternal health are under-investigated. This study …

Intercessory prayer and cardiovascular disease progression in a coronary care unit population: a randomized controlled trial

…, SE Whelan, DA Hernke, BA Williams, KE Kenny… - Mayo Clinic …, 2001 - Elsevier
Objective To determine the effect of intercessory prayer, a widely practiced complementary
therapy, on cardiovascular disease progression after hospital discharge. Patients and …

“People just don't look at you the same way”: Public stigma, private suffering and unmet social support needs among mothers who use drugs in the aftermath of child …

KS Kenny, C Barrington - Children and Youth Services Review, 2018 - Elsevier
Reduced social support among parents is a well-established risk factor for child removal by
child protective services. There has been relatively little attention, however, to mothers' social …

'I don't chase drugs as much anymore, and I'm not dead': Client reported outcomes associated with safer opioid supply programs in Ontario, Canada

…, L Challacombe, J Hales, K Kenny… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The ongoing opioid overdose crisis, which has killed over 30,000 people in
Canada since 2016, is driven by the volatility of an unregulated opioid drug supply comprised …

Association of illicit fentanyl use with injection risk practices among people who inject drugs

KS Kenny, G Kolla, S Greig, M Bannerman, D Phillips… - AIDS and Behavior, 2023 - Springer
We investigated the association between fentanyl injection frequency and sharing of injection
equipment among people who inject drugs. We surveyed 249 people who inject drugs in …

Help me fix: the provision of injection assistance at an unsanctioned overdose prevention site in Toronto, Canada

G Kolla, KS Kenny, M Bannerman, N Boyce… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Gillian Kolla a b , Kathleen S. Kenny b c , Molly Bannerman
b , Nick Boyce b , Leigh Chapman a b , Zoë Dodd b d , Jen Ko b d , Sarah Ovens b …

Frequency of fatal and non-fatal overdoses and response to grief and loss among people who inject drugs: An unexplored dimension of the opioid overdose crisis

KS Kenny, G Kolla, M Firestone, M Bannerman… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background We investigated the relationship between overdose events and grief and loss
responses among people who inject drugs. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional, tablet-…