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ARCH Lab Contributes to Study of Adult Multimorbidity
In collaboration with colleagues at the Offord Centre for Child Studies, Dr. Ferro published a paper entitled, “Child maltreatment and adult multimorbidity: results from the Canadian Community Health Survey” in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Findings showed that child maltreatment (exposure to intimate partner violence, sexual abuse, or physical abuse) predicted increased odds of […]
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Dr. Ferro Elected as Fellow of APPA
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Ferro who was recently elected to be a Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA). The APPA, founded in 1910, is one of the oldest research organizations in North America. The APPA is devoted to the scientific investigation of disordered human behavior, and its biological and psychosocial substrates.
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ARCH Lab Contributes to Study of Psychopathology of Low Birth Weight Survivors
A study examining the mental health trajectories of individuals enrolled in the Extremely Low Birth Weight Cohort found that extremely low birth weight survivors experienced a blunting of the expected improvement in symptoms of depression and anxiety from adolescence to adulthood compared to peers born at normal birth weight. In contrast, no differences were found […]
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ARCH Lab Contributes to Study of Quality of Life
A paper by Puka et al., entitled “A systematic review of quality of life in parents of children with epilepsy” was recently published in Epilepsy & Behavior. Findings showed that parents of children with epilepsy have a compromised quality of life, with psychosocial factors in particular having a critical role in both parental and child […]
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ARCH Lab Publishes Paper
Jessica Zelman, a Research Coordinator in the ARCH lab, recently published a paper with Dr. Ferro entitled, “The parental stress scale: psychometric properties in families of children with chronic health conditions” in the Journal of Family Relations. Findings showed that the Parental Stress Scale is a valid and reliable measure to use when assessing parental […]
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New ARCH Lab Research
A paper by ARCH Lab Postdoctoral Fellow, Shane Goodwin, entitled, “Development and Assessment of the Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire (QOLCE-16)” was recently published in Epilepsia. This research continues our work with the QOLCE suite of measures in pediatric epilepsy (QOLCE-76, QOLCE-55, QOLCE-16). The QOLCE-16 was found have robust psychometric properties. These findings, […]
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ARCH Lab Alumnus Publishes Paper
Chris Choi, a former high school bursary student working with the ARCH Lab recently published a paper entitled, “Comparing self-concept among youth currently receiving inpatient versus outpatient mental health services” in the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Findings showed that compared to outpatients, inpatients generally reported lower self-concept, but differences […]
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New ARCH Lab Research
Led by Alle Butler, a reading course student supervised by Dr. Ferro, the main findings from the REACH study were published in an article entitled, “Mental disorder in children with physical conditions: a pilot study” in BMJ Open. Of the 50 children enrolled in the study, the prevalence of multimorbidity was 58% at baseline and […]
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ARCH Lab Contributes to Three Studies in Low Birth Weight Children
Working with investigators from the Extremely Low Birth Weight Cohort at McMaster University, two papers were recently published in Development and Psychopathology. The first, entitled, “Early developmental influences on self-esteem trajectories from adolescence through adulthood: impact of birth weight and motor skills” found that early motor skill development may exert differential effects on self-esteem, depending […]
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ARCH Lab Contributes to Study of Psychiatric Evaluation
A paper by Duncan et al. entitled, “Psychometric evaluation of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents (MINI-KID)” was recently published in Psychological Assessment. Using both a population and clinical sample of children and youth, the psychometric properties of the MINI-KID were found to be robust. These findings, in addition to the brevity […]
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