Évaluation de la structure factorielle et des qualités psychométriques de l'Échelle de Fatigue Pandémique parmi la population adulte québécoise: Evaluation of the factorial structure and psychometric qualities of the Pandemic Fatigue Scale among Quebec adult population.

Objective: The objective of the study is to evaluate the factorial structure and the psychometric qualities of the Pandemic Fatigue Scale among the Quebec adult population.

Method: The data analyzed come from a web survey conducted in October 2021 among 10 368 adults residing in Quebec. The scale's factor structure and invariance by gender, age and language used to complete the questionnaire were tested using confirmatory factor analyses.

[Évaluation des propriétés psychométriques de l'échelle abrégée de Kessler (K6) parmi les adolescents québécois].

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the unidimensional structure and psychometric qualities of the short version of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6) in adolescents living in Quebec. Method Data analyzed were obtained from the 2013-2014 Canadian Community Health Survey and included data from 1618 adolescents. The internal structure of the K6 and invariance by gender and age were tested using confirmatory factor analyses.

Association between physical multimorbidity, body mass index and mental health/disorders in a representative sample of people with obesity.

Background: Obesity is known to be associated with poor mental health. Studies suggested that multimorbidity might explain the consequences of obesity on mental health. The objective of the present study was to examine to what extent physical multimorbidity and the severity of obesity were associated with mental health and with mental disorders.

Impact of obesity and mood disorders on physical comorbidities, psychological well-being, health behaviours and use of health services.

Background: Albeit obesity and mood disorders frequently co-occur, few studies examined the impacts of this co-occurrence. The aim was to compare individuals with obesity and mood disorders (ObMD) to those with obesity without mood disorder in terms of physical comorbidities, psychological well-being, health behaviours and use of health services.

Methods: Cross-sectional study using the Canadian Community Health Survey including a weighted sample of individuals with obesity (n = 1298) representing inhabitants from the province of Quebec (Canada).

Risk assessment and offender victim relationship in juvenile offenders.

The present study compares the Historical, Clinical, and Risk Management-20 (HCR-20) checklist in a male offender population of 108 adolescents using the relationship between the offender and the victim as a classification factor. Two types of relationship were retained for comparison purposes: family victim/known victim and unknown victim. All adolescents admitted to the Adolescent program of Montréal's Philippe-Pinel Institute from February 1998 to April 2003 were assessed and their families were met.

[Birth order, behavioural problems, and the mother-child relationship in siblings aged 4 to 11 years from a 2-child family].

Unlabelled: Birth Order, Behavioural Problems, and the Mother-Child Relationship in Siblings Aged 4 to 11 Years From a 2-Child Family

Objective: This study was designed to define the relation between some sibling characteristics (birth order, sex, and interval between successive births) and some behavioral problems in children, on the one hand, and certain dimensions of the mother-child relationship, on the other hand.

Method: The sample, from National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, included 1,196 families with 2 biological children aged 4 to 11 years. Behavioural problems and dimensions of the mother-child relationship were assessed by mothers.

Sex of victims in maternal filicide.

In many societies, girls are more often killed by their parents than boys. However, not much of this is known in contemporary societies. This study had two main objectives.

Birth order and fratricide: an evaluation of Sulloway's hypothesis.

Sulloway (1996) suggested that older siblings were more likely to be fratricidal than younger ones. Our data, based on 113 case studies found in the psychiatric, psychological and criminological literature since 1959, confirms his hypothesis. In 72 out of the 92 cases (78%) where age could be determined, the aggressor was older than the victim.

Neonaticidal mothers: are more boys killed?

Neonaticide refers to the homicide of a newborn of less than 24 hours old. Recently, certain authors have reported that only boys were victims (Dubé, 1998; Haapasalo and Petäjä, 1999). The aim of this study was to determine whether the proportion of male/female victims identified in the literature varied significantly from the official proportions of males/females at birth in countries of the Western World.

[Five cases of neonaticide in Quebec].

A neonaticide is the homicide of an infant that occurs during the first 24 hours after birth. This homicide is almost exclusively done by the mother. According to previous data, the parent who commits such homicide is a single woman, who usually conceals her pregnancy and delivers secretly either at home or in the workplace and panics at this very moment.

Differences between only children and children with 1 sibling referred to a psychiatric clinic: a test of Richards and Goodman's findings.

Objective: To test Richards and Goodman's hypothesis that a higher proportion of only children under age 5 years assessed in a psychiatric department do not present a psychiatric diagnosis, compared with preschool children with 1 sibling, and to investigate other variables relative to children in this age group with no psychiatric disorder, in light of Richards and Goodman's findings.

Method: We gathered data from 169 children under age 5 years seen in the psychiatric department of a large pediatric hospital in Montreal, Quebec.

Results: First, bivariate analysis showed no differences between the proportion of only children and children with 1 sibling regarding absence of a psychiatric diagnosis.

Methods of killing employed by psychotic parricides.

Lewis, et al. in 1998 showed that psychotic women are more likely to use a weapon than nonpsychotic women to kill their children. This study presents data concerning psychotic parricide.

Filicidal women: jail or psychiatric ward?

Objective: This study aims to examine the legal procedure that women who are charged with killing their children experience and to compare the variables that discriminate between those found guilty and those who received a medical disposition.

Method: The sample comprises 32 adult women who killed their biological children in the province of Quebec over an 11-year period (1981 to 1991).

Results: Of the sample, 18 women were found guilty, and 14 received a medical disposition.

Preference for a first-born boy in Western societies.

Many studies in the last 45 years have shown that women prefer a boy to a girl for their first-born child, suggesting that this preference is universal in Western societies. A careful examination of these studies reveals, however, that the subjects were often women who were not pregnant and/or students. A review of sixteen studies with first-time-pregnant women showed that in most cases the opposite was true, namely, that a girl was desired more often than a boy, especially during the last two decades (from 1981 to 1996).