82 results match your criteria: "3506 University Street[Affiliation]"
Child Abuse Negl
February 2024
The Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W. - MIP 201A, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: COVID-19 significantly worsened already challenging circumstances for children and their families and globally increased the likelihood of child maltreatment. This risk heightened the urgency of child protection professionals in preventing child maltreatment and defending children's rights. The vast and growing body of research on protecting children from child maltreatment during COVID-19 has emphasized practitioners' tremendous difficulty in this arena.
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February 2024
The Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W. - MIP 201A, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to numerous challenges for child protection professionals (CPPs). However, limited research has investigated the interwoven concepts of coping, resilience, and mental distress among CPPs during COVID-19 on a global scale.
Objectives: This study aimed to explore CPPs' practice, resilience, and mental distress during COVID-19, the relationship between their resilience and mental distress, the global stability of the Multi-System Model of Resilience (MSMR), and how CPPs' resilience varied according to the Human Development Index (HDI).
Child Abuse Negl
November 2023
The Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W. - MIP 201A, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic challenged child protection and posed new risks for child maltreatment (CM). Moreover, governmental efforts worldwide prioritized mitigating the spread of the virus over ensuring the welfare and protection of families and children. This neglect caused hardship for many vulnerable children, including those in out-of-home care (OOHC), and challenged the functionality of child protective services (CPS).
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July 2023
The Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W. - MIP 201A, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered new risks for child maltreatment (CM) and exacerbated existing challenges for families and children, elevating the importance of child protection professionals (CPPs) while also adding barriers to their work. During the pandemic, many CPPs experienced increased workloads, a disrupted work environment, and personal pandemic-related hardships. However, the scope of how COVID-19 impacted CPPs globally, as well as their adopted coping strategies, have not been well explored.
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May 2023
University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, 3330 Hospital Dr. NW, 3B2X9 Calgary, AB, Canada.
Youth engagement in research, which involves meaningfully collaborating with youth as full partners in the research process, has contributed to improved research collaborations, enhanced youth participation, and increased motivation for researchers to address scientific questions relevant to youth. Engaging youth as partners in the research process is especially needed in the field of child maltreatment due to the high prevalence of maltreatment, its poor association with health outcomes, and the disempowerment that can occur following exposure to child maltreatment. Although evidence-based approaches for youth engagement in research have been established and applied in other areas such as mental health services, youth engagement in child maltreatment research has been limited.
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July 2022
Centre for Research on Children and Families, McGill University, Suite 106, Wilson Hall, 3506 University Street, Montreal Quebec, H3A 2A7 Canada.
Individuals with neuro-developmental disabilities (NDD) have been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on focus groups with 24 service providers supporting this population, using an Interpretive Description approach, we examined perceived impacts of the pandemic on individuals with NDD and their families. The results highlight pandemic-related experiences which include: service reduction, the need for financial supports, relying on natural supports, and school-related challenges.
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September 2022
Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W. - MIP 201A, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada.
Background: Alongside deficits in children's wellbeing, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an elevated risk for child maltreatment and challenges for child protective services worldwide. Therefore, some children might be doubly marginalized, as prior inequalities become exacerbated and new risk factors arise.
Objective: To provide initial insight into international researchers' identification of children who might have been overlooked or excluded from services during the pandemic.
Child Abuse Negl
March 2022
School of Social Work, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: In the United States, Black children spend more time in out-of-home placement than other children and are less likely to experience family reunification following involvement with child welfare services. Within Canada, very few studies have examined Black children's exits from the child welfare system and factors influencing their service trajectory.
Objective: This study, the first of its kind in Canada, uses longitudinal clinical administrative data to examine reunification outcomes for Black children following placement in out-of-home care.
Child Abuse Negl
August 2022
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1 Chome-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan.
Background: A year has passed since COVID-19 began disrupting systems. Although children are not considered a risk population for the virus, there is accumulating knowledge regarding children's escalating risk for maltreatment during the pandemic.
Objective: The current study is part of a larger initiative using an international platform to examine child maltreatment (CM) reports and child protective service (CPS) responses in various countries.
Child Abuse Negl
August 2022
Centre for Research on Children and Families, Canada; Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma, Nicolas Steinmetz and Gilles Julien Chair in Social Pediatrics in Community, Canada; School of Social Work & Associate Member, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, 3506 University street, Room 321B, Montreal, Québec H3A2A7, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: Residential childcare workers (RCWs) in child welfare and youth-justice settings are at risk of secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and moral distress. Workplace support has been shown to be protective against work-related harms for some helping professionals and a lack of workplace support has been cited as a contributing factor toward workforce instability; however, little is known about what types or sources of support are effective for RCWs.
Participants And Setting: 81 RCWs from 11 residential units in 11 of the 16 territorial service centers across the province of Québec, Canada.
BMC Public Health
September 2021
Center for Research on Children and Families, McGill University|3506 University Street, Suite 106, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada.
Background: In the last three decades, Ghana has championed the objectives of Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiatives to provide pregnant women and nursing mothers with the skills and support systems necessary for attaining optimal breastfeeding. Yet, little is known in literature on how these intervention regimes practically promote breastfeeding-friendly work environment in healthcare facilities and their level of effectiveness. This study explores the extent to which healthcare facilities in Ghana's Effutu Municipality provide breastfeeding-friendly workplace environment to breastfeeding frontline health workers.
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June 2021
McGill University, 3506 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, Canada.
The COVID-19 worldwide pandemic has forced individuals into an unnatural way of life. Families with children experience unique stressors, such as school closures, disrupted childcare arrangements, requirement of parents to uptake additional responsibilities such as homeschooling, possible financial strain, and lack of breathing space between family members. The adjustments required of parents and children during a pandemic presumably impacts the psychosocial wellbeing of parents and children in different ways.
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September 2020
MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and Division of General Internal Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital; Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8, Canada.
Background: There may be less primary health care engagement among people who use drugs (PWUD) than among the general population, even though the former have greater comorbidity and more frequent use of emergency department care. We investigated factors associated with primary care engagement among PWUD.
Methods: The Participatory Research in Ottawa: Understanding Drugs (PROUD) cohort study meaningfully engaged and trained people with lived experience to recruit and survey marginalized PWUD between March-December 2013.
Child Abuse Negl
December 2020
University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada; Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, 3330 Hospital Dr. NW, 3B2X9, Calgary, AB, Canada. Electronic address:
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented disruptions and stress in the lives of children and families internationally. Heightened family stress and turmoil can increase risk for, and exacerbate, child maltreatment. As a result, child maltreatment experts are concerned that there will be an influx of children requiring trauma assessment and treatment during and after COVID-19.
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July 2020
is postdoctoral researcher and instructor, School of Social Work, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Wilson Hall, Suite 300, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada.
The helping relationship between a client and a practitioner is often described as the heart and soul in social work. This research explored the helping relationship between social workers and clients (the clients were mothers) in the context of public social services in Israel. The results presented here are part of a larger ethnographic study that included interviews with 14 social workers, 20 mothers who are clients, and extensive participant observations and textual analysis.
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September 2020
School of Social Work, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Suite 300, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, 1001 Décarie Boulevard, Montreal, QC, H4A 3J1, Canada. Electronic address:
Background: Raising a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder or disability (NDD/D) presents unique challenges to the family, and presence of behavior problems has been identified as a critical risk factor for a broad range of family outcomes.
Aims: The current study examines whether caregivers' perceptions of child and family service adequacy mediate or moderate the relation between children's behavioral difficulties and negative family impact.
Methods And Procedures: Caregivers provided data for 215 children with NDD/D (M = 8.
Child Abuse Negl
April 2020
School of Social Work, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Room 321A, Montreal, H3A 2A7, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address:
Health Policy Plan
December 2019
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, 1030 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC H3A 1A2, Canada.
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), many women of reproductive age experience morbidity and mortality attributable to inadequate access to and use of health services. Access to personal savings has been identified as a potential instrument for empowering women and improving access to and use of health services. Few studies, however, have examined the relation between savings ownership and use of maternal health services.
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June 2021
Centre for Research on Children and Families, McGill University, Canada Suite 106, Wilson Hall, 3506 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, Canada. Electronic address:
Disclosure of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a complex, multifaceted process with many barriers that are largely shaped by individual, familial, and systemic characteristics. Children and youth tend to withhold or delay disclosure for many years, such that most CSA goes unreported. This systematic review aimed to synthesize evidence regarding the pathways and recipients of CSA disclosures and to identify potential developmental and gender differences in the recipients of disclosures.
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April 2019
Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, 100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6, Canada.
Introduction: Caregivers of children with health problems experience poorer health than the caregivers of healthy children. To date, population-based studies on this issue have primarily used survey data.
Objectives: We demonstrate that administrative health data may be used to study these issues, and explore how non-categorical indicators of child health in administrative data can enable population-level study of caregiver health.
BMC Public Health
March 2019
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, 400-1045 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2A9, Canada.
Background: While supervised injection services (SIS) feasibility research has been conducted in large urban centres across North America, it is unknown whether these services are acceptable among people who inject drugs (PWID) in remote, mid-size cities. We assessed willingness to use SIS and expected frequency of SIS use among PWID in Thunder Bay, a community in Northwestern, Ontario, Canada, serving people from suburban, rural and remote areas of the region.
Methods: Between June and October 2016, peer research associates administered surveys to PWID.
Res Dev Disabil
March 2019
Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, 501 Smyth Road, Box 511, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L6, Canada.
Background: Using linked administrative health data, this study compared the health and healthcare service utilization between mothers of children with and without neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD), before, during, and after the birth of a child.
Methods: The population (N = 25,388) was based on a cohort of children born in 2000 and who were, along with their mothers, continuously registered with the British Columbia's universal health insurance program between 2000 and 2007.
Results: Compared to mothers of children without NDD, mothers of children with NDD were more likely to have chronic conditions and higher service utilization before child birth.
Support Care Cancer
July 2019
Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia.
Purpose: This multicentre randomised controlled trial examined the efficacy of Finding My Way (FMW), a 6-week/6-module online self-guided psychotherapeutic intervention for newly diagnosed curatively treated cancer survivors, in reducing cancer-related distress and improving quality of life compared to an online attention control.
Methods: Participants were randomised on a 1:1 ratio using a gender-stratified block design to intervention (n = 94) or attention control (n = 97), and were blinded to condition. Assessments were completed at baseline (T0), post-intervention (T1), 3 months (T2), and 6 months (T3) post-intervention.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health
December 2017
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M6S 3W6 Canada.
Background: For the past 20 years, the Ontario child welfare sector has made significant legislative and policy changes. Changes to legislation and policy can impact the public and sector's response to child maltreatment and inform identified trends. Using an investigative taxonomy of urgent protection and chronic need this paper examines the shift in the nature of investigated maltreatment over time.
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