A5027959051- Resilience and Mental Health
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Community Health and Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Ethics in medical practice
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Disaster Response and Management
Western University
2021-2024
Lawson Health Research Institute
2021-2024
Toronto Metropolitan University
2016-2023
Parkwood Institute
2021-2023
University of Toronto
2021-2023
St Joseph's Health Care
2021
University Health Network
2020-2021
Krembil Research Institute
2021
Toronto Western Hospital
2020-2021
California Western School of Law
2021
Introduction: Healthcare workers (HCWs) often experience morally challenging situations in their workplaces that may contribute to job turnover and compromised well-being. This study aimed characterize the nature frequency of moral stressors experienced by HCWs during COVID-19 pandemic, examine influence on psychosocial-spiritual factors, capture impact such factors related HCWs' self-reported attrition intentions.
In this paper, we discuss further advancements to the Multi-System Model of Resilience through examining empirical factor structures Inventory along with other measures resilience. Evidence from multiple sampled populations provided support for three-systems organization model and highlight its similarities differences in relation The MSMR conceptualizes resilience as a capacity that enables functioning across continuum vulnerability resilience, whereby internal external resources interface...
Background: Health care workers (HCWs) are among the most vulnerable groups to experience burnout during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Understanding risk and protective factors of is crucial in guiding development interventions; however, understanding determinants Canadian HCW population remains limited.
Background The consequences of stress are typically regarded from a deficit-oriented approach, conceptualizing to be entirely negative in its outcomes. This approach is unbalanced, and may further hinder individuals engaging adaptive coping. In the current study, we explored whether views beliefs regarding interacted with framing manipulation (positive, neutral negative) on measures reactivity for both psychosocial physiological stressors. Method Ninety participants were randomized into one...
Background The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionally affected different population groups. Veterans are more likely to pre-existing mental health conditions compared general Canadian population, experience compounded stressors resulting from disruptions familial, social, and occupational domains, were faced with changes in health-care delivery (e.g. telehealth). objectives this study assess (a) impact related life on well-being (b) perceptions satisfaction treatments during...
This study aimed to explore the association between mental health knowledge level and prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese college students. A cross-sectional was conducted in six universities Jinan, Shandong Province, China, a total 600 students were recruited self-complete series questionnaires. The Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (MHKQ) used investigate knowledge. Depressive investigated with depression subscale Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21). rate 31.2%....
Abstract Psychological safety, defined as perceptions that an individual within a team is supported and feels safe to take interpersonal risks, voice opinions, share ideas, vital for organizational effectiveness. However, there no consensus on how workplace psychological safety should be measured. We developed the Safety Inventory (PSI) in response needs accurately assess safety. A 70‐item version of PSI was administered 497 employees from Canada, United States, Kingdom. Based factor...
Abstract Although responses to stressors have both adverse and positive consequences on health, many believe that stress is entirely negative. Research revealed negative beliefs about can hinder well‐being result in the avoidance of stressors. Stress‐optimizing interventions target various appraisal processes may be a useful tool reframe how individuals understand respond The current study extends previous findings reframing sought examine extent which presentation information outcomes...
Abstract Background Military-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex diagnosis with non-linear trajectories of coping and recovery. Current approaches to the evaluation PTSD treatment discontinuation often rely on biomedical models that dichotomize recovery based symptom thresholds. This approach may not sufficiently capture lived experiences Veterans their families. To explore conceptualizations recovery, we sought perspectives from partners in pilot study understand: 1)...
LAY SUMMARY Armed forces personnel are a population at risk for exposure to potentially traumatic and morally injurious events because of the high-risk nature military operations. The impacts deployment-related (PMIEs) increasingly being documented, with outcomes such as mental health interpersonal problems showing consistent associations that deeply transgress an individual’s held moral beliefs. To date, literature on PMIEs has focused killing atrocities. situations in which encounter...
BackgroundStigma of mental illness contributes to silence, denial and delayed help seeking. Existing stigma reduction strategies seldom consider gender cultural contexts.PurposeThe Strengths in Unity study was a multi-site Canadian that engaged Asian men three interventions (ACT, CEE, psychoeducation) mobilized them as Community Mental Health Ambassadors. Our participants included both living with or affected by (LWA) well community leaders (CL). This paper will: (1) describe the baseline...
Background Health care workers (HCWs) have experienced several stressors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Structural stressors, including extended work hours, redeployment, and changes in organizational mandates, often intersect interpersonal personal such as caring for those infections; worrying about infection of self, family, loved ones; working despite shortages protective equipment; encountering various difficult moral-ethical dilemmas. Objective The paper describes protocol a...
Although there is evidence of effective stigma reduction by various psychological and educational interventions, the mechanisms change remain unclear. In this article, we examine hypothesized processes that might have mediated reductions in observed among Asian men who had received mental health promotion interventions Greater Toronto Area, Canada.Our sample consisted 495 men, either acceptance commitment therapy (ACT; n = 133), contact-based empowerment education (CEE; 149), combination ACT...