Publications by authors named "B Masse"
Importance: Nature-based therapeutic or preventive interventions for mental health are increasingly popular, but their effectiveness for improving mental health is not well documented.
Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of the Open Sky School Program (École à Ciel Ouvert), a 12-week nature-based intervention for elementary schoolchildren in grades 5 and 6, for reducing mental health symptoms.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This 2-arm, cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted from February 27 to June 16, 2023, in French-language elementary schools in Quebec, Canada, with green space within 1 km.
Article Synopsis
- Preterm birth and preeclampsia are major public health issues that can harm infants, and the study investigates the role of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in these outcomes.
- Analyzing data from over 6,000 pregnant women in Quebec, researchers found a significant association between CMV seropositivity and increased risks of both preterm birth and preeclampsia.
- The analysis revealed that most of the risk from CMV for preterm birth is direct, and future research should focus on ways to prevent CMV infections to potentially reduce these pregnancy complications.
Background: Frequent or prolonged exposure to stressors may jeopardize young children's health. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with disruptions in daily routines and social isolation resulting from public health preventive measures, have raised concerns about its potential impact on children' experienced stress, particularly for young children and vulnerable families. However, whether the pandemic was accompanied by changes in physiological stress remains unknown as perceived stress is not a good proxy of physiological stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) studies suggest that preterm preeclampsia can be predicted in the first trimester by combining biophysical, biochemical, and ultrasound markers and prevented using aspirin. We aimed to evaluate the FMF preterm preeclampsia screening test in nulliparous women.
Methods: We conducted a prospective multicenter cohort study of nulliparous women recruited at 11 to 14 weeks.
Background: Women with a previous caesarean delivery face a difficult choice in their next pregnancy: planning another caesarean or attempting vaginal delivery, both of which are associated with potential maternal and perinatal complications. This trial aimed to assess whether a multifaceted intervention, which promoted person-centred decision making and best practices, would reduce the risk of major perinatal morbidity among women with one previous caesarean delivery.
Methods: We conducted an open, multicentre, cluster-randomised, controlled trial of a multifaceted 2-year intervention in 40 hospitals in Quebec among women with one previous caesarean delivery, in which hospitals were the units of randomisation and women the units of analysis.