Biography

• Research Interests
  • Rural health
  • Children's health
  • Obesity
  • Health behaviours
  • Health promotion
• Methodology
  • Mixed methods

Hope Bilinski is an Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing. Her career primarily has been in direct practice in the rural setting working in acute care, long term care, and in home care where she presently works on a casual basis. Her research interests include the cardiovascular health and health promotion of rural populations. This overall interest has evolved to exploring the risk factors that children develop as they age, which influence their cardiovascular health in later decades of life. In her Master's research Dr. Bilinski examined physical activity patterns in a group of rural preadolescent children living in Saskatchewan. In her dissertation work she used a mixed methods approach to examine overweight/obesity, physical activity, sedentary behavior, and dietary patterns in a group of preadolescent children. In addition, this study used a focused ethnographic approach to explore the meaning of health in a subgroup of this population.

Hope has taught in each of the four years of the Nursing Education Program of Saskatchewan. Presently she is teaching the theory and clinical classes relating to community health as well as in the senior nursing practicum.

Recent Publications

Bilinski, H., Duggleby, W. & Rennie, D. (2010).  (In press). The meaning of health in rural children: A mixed methods approach. Western Journal of Nursing Research.

Recent Grants

Bilinski, H., Rennie, D., & Schoenfeld, B. (2010-2011). Interprofessional Rural Experience Initiative, $10,000, Saskatchewan Academic Health Sciences Network.

Anonson, J., Swityk-Conacher, L., Woods, S., Bharadwaj, L., Lukan, L., Bilinski, H., & McBain, L. (2009-2011), Improving Health for Children: Considering One Strategy for Addressing Inactivity Levels and Poor Nutritional Practices, $49,920.00, RBC Community Development Grant.

Anonson, J., Swityk-Conacher, L., Woods, S., Bharadwaj, L., Lukan, L., Bilinski, H., & McBain, L. (2009-2011), Improving health for children:  Considering one strategy for addressing inactivity levels and poor nutritional practices, $49,920.00, RBC Community Development Grant.

Chad, K., Bilinski, H., Bingham, W., Gyurcsik, N., Fowler-Kerry, S., Henry, C., Humbert, L., Lanovaz, J., Martin, L., Martin, S., Osgood, N., Poudrier, J., Reeder, B., Rodgers, C., Shah, S., Stone, S., Verrall, T., von Tigerstrom, B., Wason-Ellam, L., & Zello, G. (2008 – 2009), Obesity Research Group, $50,000, Research Group Facilitation Grant - Renewal, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation.