A5078941845- Resilience and Mental Health
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Occupational Health and Performance
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Learning Styles and Cognitive Differences
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
University of Regina
2006-2025
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
2011-2020
University of Saskatchewan
2009
Campion College
2006
Given the potential importance of using modality preference with instruction, authors tested whether learning style correlated memory performance in each 3 sensory modalities: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. In Study 1, participants completed objective measures pictorial, tactile self-assessments. The results indicate that test did not correlate preference. 2, examined more detail information used to answer self-assessment. findings answered inventory general memories beliefs rather than...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), like all public safety personnel (PSP), are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic events that contribute posttraumatic stress injuries (PTSI). Addressing PTSI is impeded by the limited available research. In this protocol paper, we describe RCMP Study, part of concerted efforts reduce improving access evidence-based assessments, treatments and training as well participant recruitment Study developments date. has been designed...
Objective Serving Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have screened positive for one or more mental disorders based on self-reported symptoms with substantial prevalence (i.e., 50.2%). Mental health challenges military and paramilitary populations historically been attributed to insufficient recruit screening; however, cadet when starting the Cadet Training Program (CTP) was unknown. Our objective estimate RCMP CTP test sociodemographic differences. Method Cadets completed a survey...
Virtual Reality (VR) has expanded beyond the entertainment field and become a valuable tool across different verticals, including healthcare, education, professional training, just to name few. Despite these advancements, widespread usage of VR systems is still limited, mostly due motion sickness symptoms, such as dizziness, nausea, headaches, which are collectively termed “cybersickness”. In this paper, we explore use electroencephalography (EEG) for real-time characterization...
Public safety personnel (PSP) experience occupational stressors and potentially psychologically traumatic events, which increase the odds of screening positive for mental health disorders, risk suicide. This study estimates suicidal ideation, planning, attempts among Canadian PSP, assesses associations with Emotional Resilience Skills Training (ERST). The current uses a longitudinal prospective sequential experimental cohort design that engages participants approximately 16 months....
Public safety personnel (PSP) are frequently exposed to psychologically traumatic events. The exposures potentiate posttraumatic stress injuries (PTSIs), including disorder (PTSD). Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Protocol was designed mitigate PTSIs using ongoing monitoring and PSP-delivered Emotional Resilience Skills Training (ERST) based on the Unified for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Disorders. current study pilot-tested ERST effectiveness among diverse PSP. A 16-month longitudinal...
Royal Canadian Mounted Police report experiencing extremely frequent potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTE). In a recent study, approximately half of participating RCMP screened positive for one or more mental disorders, which is five times the diagnostic proportion general population. Increased reporting health symptoms been linked to PPTE exposures. Programs promoting physical activity may be useful interventions supplement pair with interventions, providing anxiolytic,...
Current methods to diagnose concussions are subjective and difficult confirm. A variety of physiological biomarkers have been reported, but with conflicting results. This study assessed heart rate variability (HRV), spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), systolic blood pressure (BPV) in concussed athletes. The assessment consisted a 5-min seated rest followed by (0.1 Hz) controlled breathing protocol. Thirty participants completed baseline assessments. protocol was repeated during the...
Objective The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Study includes longitudinal multimodal assessments of RCMP cadets from pre-training (i.e., starting the Cadet Training Program [CTP]) to post-deployment and for five years thereafter. data allow investigating multidimensionality volitional participation in digital health collection frameworks within serial platforms impact inequalities by classifying using 90–9-1 rule. By as Lurkers, Contributors, Superusers formally described rule, where...
Tailoring teaching strategies to accommodate students' sensory learning styles (e.g., visual, auditory, kinesthetic) is widely recommended across all levels of education from kindergarten university. However, research stretching five decades suggests that such tailoring does not enhance learning. In contrast, indicate strong benefits for methods as integrative elaboration, distribution during learning, and frequent recall learned material. This paper reviews evidence associated with focused...
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) report diverse occupational stressors and repeated exposures to potentially psychologically traumatic events, which may increase the odds of screening positive for a mental disorder, risk death by suicide. The current study was designed provide prevalence information regarding suicidal behaviours (i.e., ideation, planning, attempts) assess sociodemographic differences among cadets at start RCMP Cadet Training Program (CTP).Cadets (n = 736, 74.0% male)...
Introduction Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers self-report high levels of mental health disorder symptoms, such as alcohol use disorder, generalized anxiety major depressive panic and posttraumatic stress disorder. Participation in regular monitoring has been associated with improved symptom reporting may provide an accessible tool to support RCMP health. The current study assessed relationships between self-reported symptoms the completion daily surveys (i.e., monitoring) by...
Abstract Background Public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., border services personnel, correctional workers, firefighters, paramedics, police, public communicators) are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic events. Such events contribute substantial and growing challenges from posttraumatic stress injuries (PTSIs), including but not limited disorder. Methods The current protocol paper describes the PSP PTSI Study (i.e., design, measures, materials, hypotheses, planned...
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers experience an elevated risk for mental health disorders due to inherent work-related exposures potentially psychologically traumatic events and occupational stressors. RCMP also report high levels of stigma low intentions seek services. In contrast, very little is known about the knowledge cadets starting Cadet Training Program (CTP). The current study was designed to: (1) obtain baseline knowledge, against peers in workplace, service use cadets;...
Public safety personnel (PSP) face frequent stressors that increase their risk of developing symptoms depression and anxiety. In addition to being exposed potentially traumatic events, PSP trainees may a compounded mental health symptoms, as training environments are conducive social comparisons the resultant painful emotion envy. Envy is associated with numerous negative occupational outcomes. Fortunately, there several individual difference factors increased emotional regulation, such...
Mental health disorders are prevalent among active-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The current study was designed to assess whether RCMP cadets commencing the Cadet Training Program inherently at greater risk of developing mental challenges by statistically comparing cadet putative and resiliency scores from young adult populations. also for sociodemographic differences in variables order facilitate future comparisons.Cadets (n = 772; 72.2% men) completed self-report...
Heart rate variability (HRV), systolic blood pressure (BPV), and spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) are indirect approximate measures of autonomic regulation the cardiovascular system. Studies have shown differences in HRV BRS between males females; however, no study has observed BPV, HRV, or male female athletes. One hundred (age 21.2 ± 2.1 y; BMI 27.4 4.5 kg/m2) sixty-five females (age: 19.7 1.6 22.7 2.2 were assessed during pre-season baseline. We collected resting beat-to-beat R-R...
This study investigated cerebral hemodynamic activity following sport-related concussion. Prefrontal cortex oxygenation was assessed by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) during a controlled breathing protocol. Wavelet transformation of the NIRS signals showed significant decreases in HbO 2 and HbD amplitude at respiratory frequency interval (0.10–0.6 HZ) from preseason baseline to acute These results suggest decreased contribution
Public safety personnel (PSP) work experiences necessitate diverse and frequent exposures to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs) other occupational stressors, which may explain the higher prevalence of mental health disorders suicidal ideation among PSP relative general population. Consequently, require emotional coping skills evidence-informed training navigate arduous situations. The Emotional Resilience Skills Training (ERST) is a pilot 13-week program led by peer based...
Abstract The aim of the study was to compare simultaneously recorded a NIR-T/BSS and NIRS signals from healthy volunteers. is device which give an ability non-invasively detect monitor changes in subarachnoid space width (SAS). Experiments were performed on group 30 volunteers (28 males 2 females, age 30.8 ± 13.4 years, BMI = 24.5 2.3 kg/m ). We analysed using analysis methods based wavelet transform (WT) for wide frequency range 0.0095 Hz. Despite fact that both devices use similar...