Congratulations to APEAL PhD student Nicole Hammond, who was recently awarded a CIHR Frederick Banting & Charles Best Doctoral Studentship. This competitive scholarship provides three years of funding to students pursuing doctoral degrees in health-related fields. Way to go, Nicole!
A hearty round of applause to APEAL lab member François Thériault, who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Major depression in the Canadian Armed Forces: a study of incidence and mental health service use” on April 30th. Congratulations, Dr. Thériault!
Trainees from the APEAL lab showed up in full force to the School of Epidemiology and Public Health Student Research Day.
The day included research talks by MSc students Nathan Cantor and Hannah Landry, and PhD student Nicole Hammond.
Special congratulations to Nicole, who took home the second-place trophy at the PhD level, and Nathan, who won second-place at the MSc level!
A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, authored by a team including APEAL members Mila Kingsbury and Ian Colman, investigates the impact of harsh and positive parenting practices in childhood on adolescent mental health. Harsh parenting, the study finds, may be particularly detrimental to boys, especially as they approach adolescence.
PhD Candidate François Thériault has published new findings from his dissertation research on the incidence of major depression in the Canadian Armed forces. This is the largest study of depression diagnoses in the Canadian military to date, and the first to provide estimates of depression incidence in the Canadian Armed Forces. Congratulations, François!
APEAL Lab alum Dylan Johnson has published a first-author paper in Psychological Medicine. The study assessed profiles of internalizing and externalizing problems from middle to late childhood, and their associations with suicidal ideation in adolescence. Those with recurrent or increasing symptoms were at increased risk of suicidal ideation. Encouragingly, children whose symptoms were initially high, but decreased across childhood, did not show elevated risk of suicidal ideation in adolescence.
APEAL trainee Nicole Hammond has published a first-author paper in Headache. The paper showed that early life stressors including family dysfunction, punitive parenting, and parental depressive symptoms are associated with migraine headache in adolescence, and these associations are mediated by symptoms of depression and anxiety in childhood.
Congrats, Nicole! Click here to read the paper.
The annual scientific symposium of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology was held this year in beautiful Quebec City. This year’s conference focused on the use of administrative health data in psychiatric epidemiology research. With lab director Ian Colman on sabbatical in Oslo, APEAL lab sent two representatives in his stead. Mila Kingsbury (research associate) and Nathan Cantor (MSc student) both presented posters at the conference. Many thanks to host Alain Lesage and the entire organizing committee!
New research from APEAL lab suggests that neighbourhood social cohesion (i.e., sense of trust and shared responsibility within the neighbourhood) may protect adolescents from some of the known negative consequences of experiencing stressful events in childhood. The paper, authored by APEAL members Mila Kingsbury, Zahra Clayborne, and Ian Colman, in conjunction with UK researcher James Kirkbride, was recently published in Psychological Medicine. Congratulations to all involved!
APEAL lab members had a strong presence at this year’s meetings of the International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology (IFPE) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Director Ian Colman, research associate Mila Kingsbury, and MSc student Shaezeen Syed collaborated with members of University of Waterloo’s ARCH lab to deliver a symposium titled: “The potential influence of the social environment on child and youth mental health”.
