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Mental disorders and discrimination: A prospective cohort study of young twin pairs in Germany

Created by Lucas Calais-Ferreira, Gregory Armstrong, Elisabeth Hahn, Giles Newton-Howes, James Foulds, John Hopper, Frank Spinath, Paul Kurdyak & Jesse Young.

Mental disorders and perceived discrimination share common risk factors. The association between having a mental disorder and experiencing discrimination is well-known…

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Image Removed Image Added Characterizing the clinical subgroups of individuals who present to the emergency department for alcohol-related harms in Ontario, Canada: A latent class analysis

Created by Erik Loewen Friesen, Andrea Mataruga, James Bolton & Paul Kurdyak.

Alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits are common and associated with adverse clinical outcomes, including premature mortality… Image Removed

The Association Between Prior Mental Health Service Utilization and Risk of Recidivism among Incarcerated Ontario Residents

Created by Michael Lebenbaum, Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Anjie Huang, Paul Kurdyak

Background: There is mixed evidence on the link between mental health and addiction (MHA) history and recidivism. Few studies have examined post-release MHA care

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A Computer-Assisted Telephone Collaborative Care Intervention Provided by Lay Providers for the Treatment of Comorbid Depression and at-Risk Drinking: Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Created by Helena Kim, Osnat Melamed, Matthew Sloan, M. Ishrat Husain, David Rodie, Athina Perivolaris, Paul Kurdyak, David Oslin, Rose Geist, Peter Selby, Benoit Mulsant.

Virtual collaborative care for people with comorbid depression and at-risk drinking lacks strong evidence. Our aim was to assess the impact of 12 months of telephone collaborative care (tCC) versus enhanced usual care (eUC) on depression and drinking…

Assessing the "Healthy Immigrant Effect" in Mental Health: Intra- and Inter-Cohort Trends in Mood and/or Anxiety Disorders.

Created by Joyce Mason, Audrey Laporte, James McDonald, Paul Kurdyak, Ethan Fosse & Claire de Oliveira.

The healthy immigrant effect implies that, at the time of immigration, new immigrants are typically healthier than the Canadian-born population. Furthermore, this health advantage fades the longer cohorts of immigrants remain in the host country…

Socioeconomic Status and Access to Mental Health Care: The Case of Psychiatric Medications for Children in Ontario Canada.

Created by Janet Currie, Paul Kurdyak, & Jonathan Zhang.

We examine differences in the prescribing of psychiatric medications to lower-income and higher-income children in the Canadian province of Ontario using rich administrative data that includes diagnosis codes and physician identifiers.…

Youth Cannabis Use and Subsequent Health Service Use for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Created by André McDonald, Paul Kurdyak, Jürgen Rehm, Michael Roerecke & Susan Bondy.

Epidemiologic research suggests a modest association between youth cannabis use and mood and anxiety disorders (MADs). However, current evidence is based mostly on cohort studies using data from the 20th century when cannabis was significantly less potent than today…