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ARCH Lab Student Awarded Fellowship
Congratulations to ARCH Lab student Rana (Ahmad) Qadeer, who was awarded an Ontario Graduate Fellowship to support his master’s research. Ahmad is using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey—Mental Health to examine substance use/abuse among emerging adults with chronic health conditions. He aims to produce evidence-based findings that could inform policy and intervention efforts […]
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ARCH Lab Featured on Offord Centre for Child Studies Website
Why is it important to study youth with physical and mental health conditions? What is our approach to studying multimorbidity? Why are some young people affected, and others are not? We’ve answered these questions, and more, in a blog post about the ARCH Lab that was recently featured on the Offord Centre for Child Studies […]
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Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences Research Day
It’s that time of year—the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping, and students are presenting their research at the Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences Research Day! The ARCH Lab was involved in a number of exciting projects: Prenatal betamethasone exposure and risk of depression and anxiety in extremely low birth weight […]
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ARCH Student makes Impact at Research Day
Congratulations to ARCH Lab student Freddy Wong, who took third place in the undergraduate poster competition at the Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences Research Day. Freddy has been on a poster tour lately having already presented at the Bachelor of Health Sciences and Undergraduate Pediatrics Research Days. Congratulations Freddy!
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Dr. Ferro Interviewed about ARCH Research
Dr. Ferro was a guest on the Larry Fedoruk Show on 610 CKTB to discuss findings from a recent ARCH Lab study examining the association between food allergy and mental health problems in young people. The full interview is available here. The news release distributed by McMaster University is available here. The story has also […]
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New ARCH Research
Two new ARCH Lab papers have examined psychopathology in adolescents and young adults with food allergies. The first paper, entitled, “Condition-specific associations of symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescents and young adults with asthma and food allergy” was published in the Journal of Asthma and showed that whereas asthma was linked to symptoms of […]
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New ARCH Research
A new ARCH Lab paper entitled, “Measurement invariance of the Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire (QOLCE-55)” was recently published in Epilepsia. Findings suggested that the question items included in the QOLCE-55 are perceived similarly across groups stratified by age, sex, and time. Combined with our previous work, this is further evidence of the […]
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Happy Holidays from the ARCH Lab
From our lab to yours… Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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New ARCH Research
A new ARCH Lab paper entitled, “Measurement Invariance of the WHODAS 2.0 in a Population-Based Sample of Youth” was published in the open-access journal, PLoS ONE. Findings indicate that the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0), a brief measure of global disability originally developed for adults, is valid for making substantive comparisons […]
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QOLCE-55 Available for Download
The Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire (QOLCE-55) is an epilepsy-specific, parent-reported measure of health-related quality of life of children with epilepsy. Details of the QOLCE-55’s development are described in a 2015 paper by Goodwin et al. The QOLCE-55 is available at no cost for investigators and clinicians interested in using it in their […]
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