- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Ethics in medical practice
- Family Support in Illness
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Global Health Care Issues
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Empathy and Medical Education
University of Calgary
2021-2024
Mental Health Research Canada
2024
<sec> <title>Introduction</title> Amid the widespread impact of COVID-19 pandemic, a notable increase in symptoms anxiety and depression has become pressing concern. This study examined prevalence Canada from September to December 2020, assessing demographic socioeconomic influences, as well potential role diagnoses related negative experiences. </sec> <title>Methods</title> Data were drawn Survey on Mental Health by Statistics Canada, which used two-stage sample design gather responses 14...
Abstract There is a pressing need to investigate how young adults' access healthcare, including delayed help‐seeking behaviours and the complexities inherent in traditional healthcare systems, exacerbate challenges they face. This study explores associations among functional impairments, self‐perceptions of health, anxiety mood disorders their potential relationship unmet needs adults aged 20–29. cross‐sectional used data from 2017–2018 Canadian Community Health Survey analyse sample 1636...
Young adults are disproportionally affected by mental illnesses (MIs) and often encounter numerous obstacles to accessing healthcare. Untreated MIs have high chronicity recurrence associated with worse health life outcomes. The aim of the study described in this protocol is characterize better understand barriers facilitators healthcare for young health-related disabilities (YMHDs), focusing on impact functional impairment, determinants health, unmet needs. protocol, guided critical realism,...
Purpose This manuscript aims to consider traditional success metrics in patient-oriented research (POR) using insights from the Helping Enable Access and Remove Barriers To Support for Young Adults with Mental Health-Related Disabilities (HEARTS) study. Design/methodology/approach Through collective reflexivity, this underscores inadequacy of current evaluation standards that focus primarily on quantifiable outputs. Findings The findings suggest significant systemic challenges persist,...
After a decade of attempts at patient-oriented research, this article seeks to advance the approach, making individuals and communities active partners in health research. Patient-oriented research remains inconsistently implemented, tokenistic, met with resistance-largely due system which it was conceived practiced. Patients remain bound by object-oriented medical cosmologies, thus reaffirming hierarchical underpinned professional dominance. Until researchers develop an awareness subtle...
<sec> <title>Introduction</title> Parmi les répercussions généralisées de la pandémie COVID-19, l’aggravation marquée des symptômes d’anxiété et dépression est devenue une préoccupation urgente. Dans cette étude, auteurs ont analysé prévalence au Canada septembre à décembre 2020, en évaluant influences démographiques socio-économiques ainsi que le rôle potentiel diagnostics COVID-19 expériences négatives liées maladie. </sec> <title>Méthodologie</title> Les données été tirées l’Enquête sur...
Purpose This study aims to gain insights from peer support workers (PSWs) on the unseen mechanisms of work that may be applied implementing a child and youth mental health program in children’s hospital emergency department (ED). Design/methodology/approach used critical realist perspective with qualitative research design. Eight participants, all PSWs health, community social services working adults, adolescents children, were recruited Alberta, Canada. Data collected through in-person...
Sandy Rao graphically illustrates with audio, photography and narrative the ways in which food is central to understanding memory, history, culture, notions of home.