Paul Kurdyak 2024

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

Sage Journals

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…

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…