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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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Dr. Ferro Invited to Write Commentary in The Lancet Public Health
Dr. Ferro was invited by The Lancet Public Health to provide a commentary on a study by Katriina Heikkilä and colleagues on youth multimorbidity. Their paper “Preterm birth and the risk of multimorbidity in adolescence: a multi register-based cohort study” links preterm birth and risk of complex multimorbidity, including the co-occurrence of physical and mental […]
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ARCH Lab Publishes Paper Using “Multimorbidity In Youth Receiving Mental Health Services” Data
The ARCH Lab has recently published a paper titled “Family Functioning and Health-Related Quality of Life in Parents of Children with Mental Illness” in the Journal Child and Family Studies using data from the “Multimorbidity In Youth Receiving Mental Health Services” study. Previous research suggests that family dysfunction may be related to lower health-related quality […]
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ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Impact of Pandemic on Psychological Distress in Youth with Chronic Illness
Mr. Ferro, along with colleague Alène Toulany from SickKids and the University of Toronto, recently published a paper titled “Longitudinal association between youth multimorbidity and psychological distress: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic” in the journal Child Psychiatry and Human Development. The paper, sampling from 147 parent-youth dyads participating in the larger MY LIFE study, examined […]
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ARCH Lab Paper Published Using MY LIFE Study Data
Members of the ARCH Lab, along with colleagues from the University of Calgary and University of Manitoba, recently published a paper titled “Response shift in parent-reported psychopathology in children with chronic physical illness” using data from the MY LIFE study. This study tested for response shift in children with chronic physical illness using a parent-reported […]
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