A5023992975- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Public Health in Brazil
Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec
2013-2025
Université de Montréal
2011-2025
Hôpital Louis-H Lafontaine
2011-2024
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
2019-2022
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
2020
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
2020
Institut Philippe Pinel de Montréal
2012-2013
Prevalence, symptoms, and treatment of depression suggest that major depressive disorders (MDD) present sex differences. Social stress-induced neurovascular pathology is associated with symptoms in male mice; however, this association unclear females. Here, we report chronic social subchronic variable stress promotes blood-brain barrier (BBB) alterations mood-related brain regions female mice. Targeted disruption the BBB prefrontal cortex (PFC) induces anxiety- depression-like behaviours. By...
Several factors have been shown to be involved in decisions use seclusion and restraint psychiatric inpatient settings. This study examined whether staff perceptions of related the care team violence on ward predicted wards.A total 309 members (nurses, rehabilitation instructors, nurse's aides) providing patients with serious mental disorders were recruited from eight university hospitals general-hospital units province Quebec. Factors assessed included sociodemographic characteristics,...
Lombardy was the epicenter of Covid-19 outbreak in Italy, and March 2020 rapid escalation cases prompted Italian Government to decree a mandatory lockdown introduce safety practices mental health services. The general objective study is evaluate early impact emergency quarantine on well-being work service personnel professionals. Data were collected through an online survey workers professionals working with people problems several outpatient inpatient Their socio-demographic...
Background/Objectives: Violent behaviors are uncommon in patients with schizophrenia (Sch), but when present, exacerbate stigma and challenge treatment. The following study aimed to identify the structural abnormalities associated violent Sch by implementing a validated tool specifically designed evaluate psychiatric populations, as well performing region-of-interest neuroimaging analyses, focused on areas commonly neurobiology of violence aggression. Methods: Eighty-three participants were...
Several research contributions have depicted the impact of pandemic environment on healthcare and social care personnel. Even though high prevalence burnout depression anxiety in settings before COVID-19 has been well documented research, recent increase psychological distress mental health issues workers should be attributed to effect pandemic. The aim present study is develop, evaluate, compare a model workplace stressors between two different territories, Italian region Lombardy Canadian...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Of individuals with MDD, 30% to 50% are unresponsive common antidepressants, highlighting untapped causal biological mechanisms. Dysfunction in microbiota-gut-brain axis has been implicated MDD pathogenesis. Exposure chronic stress disrupts blood-brain barrier integrity; still, little known about intestinal function these conditions, particularly for small intestine, where absorption most foods and drugs takes place.
Abstract Aim People living with mental illness are more likely than the general population to experience adverse housing outcomes, including homelessness. The aim of current study is examine residential status when participants have their first contact health services, and correlates at that moment. Methods First‐time service users were recruited from seven clinical sites across Québec. Data on entry in project, as well demographic, social variables, collected using self‐report...
Social anxiety (SA), a prevalent comorbid condition in psychotic disorders with negative impact on functioning, requires adequate intervention relatively early. Using randomized controlled trial, we tested the efficacy of group cognitive-behavioral therapy for SA (CBT-SA) that developed youth who experienced first episode psychosis (FEP). For our primary outcome, hypothesized compared to active control cognitive remediation (CR), CBT-SA would show reduction be maintained at 3- and 6-month...
Accessible summary Staff attitudes to violence by psychiatric patients may have an impact on the therapeutic relationship. The French versions of Perception Aggression Scale and a new Modified version Overt are two useful tools for evaluating subjective experience towards inpatient violence. Future study management use these scales evaluate monitor staff frequency Abstract Psychiatric perceptions aggression affect relationship between care providers in institutions. Attitudes also differ...
Objective: Several factors have been shown to be involved in decisions use seclusion and restraint psychiatric inpatient settings. This study examined whether staff perceptions of related the care team violence on ward predicted wards. Methods: A total 309 members (nurses, rehabilitation instructors, nurse's aides) providing patients with serious mental disorders were recruited from eight university hospitals general-hospital units province Quebec. Factors assessed included sociodemographic...
Abstract Aims No instrument has been developed to explicitly assess the professional culture of mental health workers interacting with severely mentally ill people in publicly or privately run care services. Because theoretical and methodological concerns, we designed a self-administered questionnaire services workers. The study aims validate this tool, named Mental Health Professional Culture Inventory (MHPCI). MHPCI adopts notion ‘professional culture’ as hybrid construct between...
Background In times of pandemics, social distancing, isolation, and quarantine have precipitated depression, anxiety, substance misuse. Scientific literature suggests that patients living with mental health problems or illnesses (MHPIs) who interact peer support workers (PSWs) experience not only the empathy connectedness comes from similar life experiences but also feel hope in possibility recovery. So far, it is effect teams programs PSWs has been evaluated. Objective This paper presents...
Abstract Aim Dropping out of psychological interventions is estimated to occur in up a third individuals with psychosis. Given the high degree attrition this population, identifying predictors important develop strategies retain treatment. We observed particularly (48%) recent randomized controlled study assessing cognitive health for first‐episode psychosis participants comorbid social anxiety. Due importance developing anxiety first episode psychosis, aim present was identify putative...
Objective: Alcohol and (or) illicit drug use (AIDU) problems are associated with mental health difficulties, but low-to-moderate alcohol consumption may have benefits, compared abstinence. Our study aimed to explore the hypothesis of a nonlinear, or J-curve, relation between AIDU profiles psychological distress, psychiatric disorders, service in general Canadian population. Methods: Data were collected from representative sample population ( n = 36 984). Multiple correspondence analyses...
A small number of severely and persistently mentally ill in-patients awaiting residential or long-stay facilities represent an obstacle to the efficient utilization acute care beds. These are costly currently reputed be contrary recovery principles. In 2013, all psychiatric wards in Montreal identified 194 who could discharged long-term nursing facilities. Program clinical professionals regional sent adapted standardized questionnaires ward staff. Evaluators also collected preferences both...
Abstract Aims High rates of mental illness among individuals experiencing homelessness, as well documented contacts with psychiatric services prior to episodes indicate that early intervention could play a key role in homelessness prevention. Decision‐makers and clinical teams need longitudinal data on housing trajectories following initial contact services, predictors risk instability homelessness. This paper describes the AMONT study, mixed‐methods naturalistic cohort study identified new...
Partial complex epilepsy with psychosensorial and psychotic symptoms remains a relatively rare condition that can sometimes be mistaken for an axis I psychiatric disorder. There is no specific treatment this particular type of epilepsy, anti-epileptic medication being the cornerstone therapeutic intervention occasional addition neuroleptics. Lack response to agents often sign poor prognosis requires risky invasive interventions high morbidity patients.We report case 21-year-old right-handed...
Objectifs L’accès à un logement stable, abordable et sécuritaire constitue déterminant important de la santé l’intégration dans communauté des personnes ayant trouble mental. Les études sur satisfaction, stabilité les préférences résidentielles mental ont surtout porté expériences celles longs parcours services psychiatriques. en début d’utilisation psychiatriques, particulier jeunes, peuvent présenter besoins distincts matière logement. La présente étude visait explorer nouveaux...
Objectifs Au Canada, on estime que 5 à 31 % des interventions policières se font auprès de personnes ayant troubles santé mentale. L’objectif cette revue sur la littérature scientifique est soulever une myriade d’enjeux dans l’approche ce type patients en communauté. Nous illustrons ensuite contexte avec initiative montréalaise : le projet ÉCHINOPS (Équipe communautaire hybride d’interventions novatrices OSBL-Psychiatrie-SPVM). Méthode Une recherche bibliographique classique large a été...