• Arch Lab Contributes to Paper on Self-Esteem in Young People with Epilepsy

    The ARCH Lab contributed to a paper with colleagues from McMaster University on a paper published in Epilepsia titled “Self-esteem mediates mental health outcomes in young people with epilepsy”. The authors evaluated the extent to which self-esteem mediates the impacts of epilepsy-specific and environmental factors on mental health outcomes in young people with epilepsy. Data […]

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  • ARCH Lab Post Doc Receives CIHR Fellowship

    Congratulations to ARCH Lab Postdoctoral Fellow, Chloe Bedard, for being named as a recipient of a CIHR Fellowship Award! This award will support Chloe as she explores the role of physical activity in the lives of children with physical-mental multimorbidity. This work will help increase our understanding of how to better support children and their […]

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  • Two ARCH Lab MSc Students Successfully Defend Theses

    Congratulations to ARCH Lab students Erica McDonald and Madeline Reed on the successful defence of their MSc theses! Erica successfully defended her thesis titled “Psychometric Properties and Informant Agreement of the WHODAS 2.0 in Youth with Mental Disorder and their Parents”. Erica has accepted an offer to join the MD/PhD program at the University of […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Multimorbidity Scoping Review

    ARCH Lab alumni and current PhD candidate, Isabella Romano, recently published a scoping review titled “Physical-mental multimorbidity in children and youth: a scoping review” with the objective to systematically explore the breadth of physical-mental multimorbidity research in children and youth and to provide an overview of existing literature topics. Included were 431 studies and 2 […]

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  • Arch Lab Collaboration with COMPASS Continues With Two Published Papers

    The ARCH Lab has collaborated again with the COMPASS study on two recently published papers on the subject of substance use and mental health. The first, “Cannabis Use, Screen Time, and Internalizing Symptoms among Canadian Youth: Testing Mediation Pathways” examines the factors that mediate the relationship between screen time sedentary behaviors (STSB), internalizing symptoms and […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on MY LIFE Study Cohort

    The ARCH Lab has published a paper titled “Cohort Profile: Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE) Study”. This paper provides an overview of the methods of the Multimorbidity in Children and Youth across the Life-course (MY LIFE) study, profiles sample characteristics of the cohort (n=263), and provides baseline estimates of multimorbidity. […]

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  • New ARCH Lab Paper on the Mental Health Care Costs Among Youth with Comorbid Mental Disorders

    The ARCH Lab recently published a paper titled “Mental Health Care Costs Among Youth with Comorbid Mental Disorders”. The study described the distribution of mental health service costs in youth with mental disorder and determined if costs differed for youth with comorbid internalizing and externalizing disorder compared to those with comorbid internalizing disorders. Data come […]

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  • ARCH Lab Student Successfully Defends MSc Thesis

    Congratulations to Samantha Chown for successfully defending her MSc thesis titled “Psychological Distress and Mental Illness in Emerging Adults with Learning Disabilities”. This topic was new to Sammy; she familiarized herself with the subject matter, analyzed her data, wrote and defended her thesis (virtually) all within a year of joining the ARCH Lab. Very impressive […]

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  • Arch Lab Contributes to Paper on Cannabis Use and Traffic Violations in Emerging Adults

    ARCH Lab recently contributed to paper titled “Steering clear: Traffic violations among emerging adults who engage in habitual or casual cannabis use”. This study examined the association between habitual or casual cannabis use and past-year traffic violations among emerging adults (EAs). Data come from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health. Respondents were categorized based […]

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  • ARCH Lab Contributes to Study Linking Prenatal Adversity and Adolescent Psychiatric Risk

    While the association between adverse pre- and postnatal exposure and offspring health is well established, it is unclear whether exposure to a greater number of prenatal adversities affects subsequent mental health risk. The ARCH Lab recently contributed to a study titled “Exploring Links Between Prenatal Adversity and Adolescent Psychiatric Risk in a Canadian Population-Based Sample” […]

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