• 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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  • ARCH Lab MSc Candidate Receives a CIHR – Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship

    Congratulations to Erica McDonald for being awarded a CIHR – Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship! This award will support Erica as she continues her thesis research entitled: “Informant Agreement in the WHODAS 2.0 in Youth with Mental Disorder and their Parents”. We are thrilled that the potential impact of this work and […]

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  • ARCH Lab Contributes to a Paper on the Influence of Early Trauma on Psychopathology in Adulthood

    Within the literature, it is known that perinatal (right before and after birth) and later postnatal adversities (e.g., child sexual abuse) are predictors of psychopathology across the lifespan. However, research on the joint effects of perinatal and postnatal adversity on the longitudinal trajectories of mental health, specifically from adolescence through adulthood, is lacking. The ARCH […]

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  • ARCH Lab Contributes to a Paper Validating Two Scales in Young Adults with Epilepsy

    The ARCH Lab contributed to a study titled “Validation of the Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire (QOLCE-55 and QOLCE-16) for use by parents of young adults with childhood-onset epilepsy”. The objective of the study was to provide a reliable way of assessing long-term health-related quality of life in young adults with childhood-onset epilepsy. […]

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  • ARCH Lab Student Successfully Defends MSc Thesis

    Congratulations to Tiana Ciccarelli for successfully defending her MSc thesis entitled “Steering clear of cannabis: an epidemiological study of traffic violations among emerging adults who engage in heavy or occasional use of cannabis”. This was the lab’s first virtual defence and she nailed it. It couldn’t have been easy presenting to a bunch of digital […]

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