• ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Psychometric Properties of WHODAS 2.0

    Members of the ARCH Lab recently published a paper titled “Psychometric properties and informant agreement of the WHODAS 2.0 in youth with mental disorder” in the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The purpose of this paper was to examine the psychometric properties, parent-youth agreement, and factors associated with agreement on […]

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  • ARCH Lab MSc Student wins 4th Place in GRADFlix Showcase

    Congratulations to Kiran Dhuga, MSc student with the ARCH Lab, who was awarded 4th place in the 2023 GRADflix virtual showcase! GRADflix is a research communication opportunity for graduate students at the University of Waterloo where participants were invited to create a video, moving slide show, or animation of no longer than 60 seconds in length that describes […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Internalizing-Externalizing Comorbidity in Children

    Members of the ARCH Lab recently published a paper in Children (Basel) titled “Internalizing-Externalizing Comorbidity and Impaired Functioning in Children”. The objective of this exploratory study was to examine whether internalizing-externalizing comorbidity was associated with impaired functioning in children currently receiving mental health services. Data come from the Multimorbidity in Youth Receiving Mental Health Services […]

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  • ARCH Lab Collaborates on Paper Investigating Relationship between Sleep Duration and Eating Behaviours in Adolescents

    The ARCH Lab collaborated on a recent paper published in the journal Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, titled “Sleep Duration and Eating Behaviours among Adolescents: A Scoping Review”. Investigations of the relationship between sleep duration and eating behaviours have been emerging prior to the current paper, however, a […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Mental Health of MY LIFE Study Siblings

    The ARCH Lab has released findings about siblings from the MY LIFE study cohort in the journal Child: Care, Health and Development, titled “Mental health of siblings of children with physical illness or physical-mental comorbidity”. The sample included children aged 2 to 16 years with a chronic physical illness (PI) and their aged-matched healthy siblings […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Series of Papers on WHODAS 2.0 Using MY LIFE Study Data

    The ARCH Lab recently published a series of three papers in the journal Disability and Rehabilitation, providing a comprehensive examination of the 12-item self-administered World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0, one of the most widely used measures of disability and functioning. This series of publications examined measurement invariance and agreement between parent and […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Paper Using Data from “Multimorbidity In Youth Receiving Mental Health Services” Study

    The ARCH Lab has published a paper using data from its Multimorbidity in Youth Receiving Mental Health Services study, exploring the potential interrelationships among perceived stress, hair cortisol concentration (HCC), and mental disorders from a sample of youth and their parents. The paper, “Do subjective and objective measures of stress agree in a clinical sample […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes New Paper Using DETOUR Study Data

    The ARCH Lab recently published a manuscript using the DETOUR study data titled “Mental and psychosocial health among youth after their first psychiatric hospitalization: a feasibility study”. The paper was published in the journal BMC Research Notes. This small-scale study investigated a group of inpatient youth with a first psychiatric hospitalization. The aim of this […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes New Paper on Physical Activity in the MY LIFE Study Cohort

    The ARCH Lab published a paper using the MY LIFE Study data, measuring youth physical activity (PA) and the correlations between children with multimorbidity (MM) versus children with chronic physical illness (PI) only. The paper, “Correlates of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity in Children With Physical Illness and Physical–Mental Multimorbidity” was published in the Journal of Health […]

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  • ARCH Lab Collaborates on Study of Mental Health of Youth with Cerebral Palsy

    The ARCH Lab collaborated on a paper recently published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, titled “Correlates of Mental Health in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the MyStory Project”. This study highlights the importance of understanding mental health issues in adolescents and young adults (AYA) living with cerebral palsy […]

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