Publications by authors named "Dragana Ostojic-Aitkens"

Article Synopsis
  • Many children with congenital heart disease (CHD) face emotional and behavioral challenges because of their early medical issues and stressful hospital experiences.
  • A new online program called I-InTERACT-North aims to help parents improve their parenting skills and support their children with CHD.
  • The study will see if this program is helpful and acceptable to families by comparing two groups: one that gets the program and one that continues regular care for a year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Understanding how pediatric neuropsychological evaluations support families and the child's medical team is an important component of ensuring evidence-based care. For the first time within a Canadian context, we investigated the impact of neuropsychological assessments on parent knowledge, advocacy, and stress and the role of socioeconomic factors in parents' perceptions of the assessment. Responses from referring clinicians were also examined.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Gambling-related cognitive distortions are associated with gambling disorder severity, but few studies have provided an in-depth examination of the interrelationship between cognitive distortions, gambling severity, psychiatric comorbidity and treatment outcomes. The present study sought to identify factors associated with elevated cognitive distortions among problem gamblers entering residential treatment, examine changes in cognitive distortions through treatment, and explore the association between cognitive distortions and treatment outcomes. Pre- and post-treatment data were extracted from the charts of 125 individuals who participated in a 21-day residential treatment program for gambling disorder.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Mind wandering is a commonly experienced phenomenon. Although self-report measures are available to assess these attentional lapses, examination of their correspondence with the reported frequency of these episodes in daily life is warranted. Using ecological momentary assessments (EMAs), the present study aimed to validate 3 mind-wandering measures: the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) and the Mind Wandering-Spontaneous (MW-S) and Mind Wandering-Deliberate (MW-D) measures in university students (N = 100).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF