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New ARCH Lab Paper on Physical Morbidity and Service Use in Young People
The ARCH Lab recently published a paper titled “Physical Morbidity and Mental Health Care Among Young People”. The study looked at various associations between physical conditions and mental health service use among young people. Data came from 5,630 individuals aged 15–29 years in the Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health. Physical health problems were measured using […]
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ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Family Functioning and Child Mental Health
ARCH Lab published a paper titled “Child Mental Illness and Mental Health Service Use: Role of Family Functioning (Family Functioning and Child Mental Health).” The aim of the study was to identify domains of family functioning that are associated with likelihood of internalizing versus externalizing mental health disorder, health consultations, hospitalizations, and length of hospital […]
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ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on Substance Use and Physical Illness Among Youth
ARCH Lab recently published a paper titled “Substance use disorders among youth with chronic physical illness”. This study estimated prevalence of substance use disorder in youth with chronic physical illness. Associations between different chronic physical illnesses with substance use disorder were explored and the study also tested whether mental disorder moderates these associations. Data come […]
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ARCH Lab Contributes to Study on Quality of Life Following a Childhood Epilepsy Diagnosis
ARCH Lab contributed to a study titled “Trajectories of quality of life 10 years following a diagnosis of epilepsy in childhood” which assessed the trajectories of health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) over a 10‐year period among children who had recently received an epilepsy diagnosis. Data came from the Health‐Related Quality of Life in Children With […]
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ARCH Lab Publishes Paper on the Long-Term Impact of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children’s Health-Related Quality of Life
ARCH Lab recently published a paper titled “Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children Recently Diagnosed With Epilepsy and Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life”. The purpose of this study was to understand and outline the long-term impact of pediatric convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among children with a recent epilepsy diagnosis. Children […]
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ARCH Lab Contributes to Paper on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Children
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is difficult to detect in young children and therefore may be underestimated in prevalence data. This detection issue could contribute to why FASD has unique developmental trajectories compared to other Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDD). The ARCH Lab contributed to a paper titled “Teacher-Reported Prevalence of FASD in Kindergarten in Canada: Association […]
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New Video Highlights Dr. Ferro’s Research
Dr. Ferro was given the opportunity to have his research highlighted in a video created by Waterloo Applied Health Sciences. Dr. Ferro’s research focuses on child multimorbidity- the co-occurrence of physical and mental illness in children, youth and young adults. Specifically, his work looks at the biological and psychosocial mechanisms leading to the onset of […]
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ARCH Lab Contributes to a Paper on Trends and Predictors of Smoking Among Youth
Currently, there is little information on predictors of e-cigarette use, smoking, and dual usage among youth. The Arch Lab contributed to a new paper titled “Trends and predictors of exclusive e-cigarette use, exclusive smoking and dual use among youth in Canada” to investigate predictive patterns among these groups using longitudinal data from the COMPASS Study. […]
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ARCH Lab PhD Candidate Receives a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship
Congratulations to ARCH Lab’s PhD candidate Shannon Reaume on being awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology! Shannon’s dissertation is titled “Child Multimorbidity in Ontario.” Multimorbidity is the co-occurrence of physical and mental illness. It is already known that children with chronic physical illnesses are at increased risk for developing mental […]
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ARCH Lab MSc Candidate Receives an Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Congratulations to ARCH Lab MSc Student Megan Dol for being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Suicidal ideation is a strong risk factor for death by suicide—the third leading cause of death in Canada among youth. Megan’s thesis “Mental-Physical Multimorbidity and Suicidal Ideation Among Youth” aims to: (1) estimate the association between multimorbidity and suicidal ideation […]
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