• ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Gross Motor Skills in 3-5 Year-olds Using MY LIFE Study Data

    The ARCH Lab recently published another paper using data from the Multimorbidity in Youth across the Life-course (MY LIFE) study titled “A Matched-Pair Analysis of Gross Motor Skills of 3- to 5-Year-Old Children With and Without a Chronic Physical Illness” in the journal Pediatric Exercise Science. Children ages 3-5 years participating in the MY LIFE study were […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Paper Using MY LIFE Study Data

    The ARCH Lab recently published another paper using data from the Multimorbidity in Youth across the Life-course (MY LIFE) study titled “Self-concept in Adolescents with Physical-Mental Comorbidity” in the Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity. Authors analyzed data from 116 adolescents aged 10+ years with chronic physical illness, recruited from outpatient clinics at a pediatric hospital […]

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  • ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Parent-Child Agreement on Impact of Epilepsy

    ARCH lab recently published a paper titled “Agreement in reporting restrictions in life between children with epilepsy and their parents’’ which was aimed to investigate the agreement between parents and children regarding restrictions associated with childhood epilepsy, using the Hague Restrictions in Childhood Epilepsy Scale (HARCES). This study, sampling from 90 parent-child dyads aged 9-17, […]

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  • ARCH Lab Collaborates on Paper Examining Parent Well-Being in Children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy

    The ARCH lab recently collaborated on a paper titled “Trajectories of parent well-being in children with drug-resistant epilepsy” in the Journal of Epilepsia. This longitudinal cohort study was conducted across eight epilepsy centers in Canada to uncovered distinct trajectories of parent well-being over the first two years after their child’s evaluation for epilepsy surgery candidacy. […]

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  • ARCH Lab Collaborates on Paper Examining Adolescent Mental Health During Pandemic

    ARCH lab recently collaborated on a paper titled “Adolescents’ Depression and Anxiety Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Evidence From COMPASS” using longitudinal data from COMPASS study. The study analyzed changes in depression and anxiety symptoms among 5,368 Canadian adolescents in the context of a natural experiment, using data from the 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21 […]

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  • Arch Lab Collaborates on Paper Examining Effects of Cannabis Legalization on High-Risk Young Adults

    The ARCH Lab collaborated on a study titled “Cannabis Use Frequency and Cannabis-Related Consequences in High-Risk Young Adults Across Cannabis Legalization,” recently published in JAMA Network Open. This longitudinal cohort study examined the impact of recreational cannabis legalization on young adults aged 19.5 to 23, especially those at higher risk due to heavy drinking. The […]

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  • ARCH Lab Collaborates on Health-Related Quality of Life Two Years After Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

    The ARCH Lab recently collaborated on a prospective study titled “Pre-Operative Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life Two Years After Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study” involving 95 pediatric cases, aimed to uncover the pre-operative predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) following epilepsy surgery. The HRQOL was assessed using the Quality of Life […]

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  • ARCH Lab Collaborates on Paper Examining Impact of Different Learning Modes on Youth Mental Health During Pandemic

    The ARCH Lab recently collaborated on a paper titled “School learning modes during the COVID-19 response and pre- to during pandemic mental health changes in a prospective cohort of Canadian adolescents” in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. The paper surveyed from 7270 adolescents attending 41 Canadian secondary schools participating in the COMPASS study. […]

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  • ARCH Lab PhD Student Wins Award

    Congratulations to ARCH Lab’s Kiran Dhuga who was awarded a Provost Doctoral Entrance Award (PDEA) for Women. Granted by the University of Waterloo, this award provides an outstanding full-time female doctoral student with an entrance scholarship in the amount of $5,000 for one year. Recipients must obtain first-class standing, as well as demonstrate an outstanding […]

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  • ARCH Lab PhD student passes dissertation and begins Post Doc

    Congratulations to ARCH Lab’s Alex Luther on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation! Alex’s project focused on delinquent behaviours and victimization among children in Ontario. Notable findings indicate:• Parent and teacher reports have low agreement, suggesting that children display delinquent behaviours differently in home vs. school contexts• Delinquent behaviours and experiences of victimization often […]

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