Author: Anna Desimone

Analyzing the Engagement of Racial and Ethnic Minority Children in Mental Health Services: A Focus on Barriers and Facilitators. The objective of this scoping review was to identify barriers and facilitators related to the engagement of racial and ethnic minority […]

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Health Equity Impact Assessments (HEIAs) should be conducted prior ti implementing new policy, programming, or initiatives. McMaster’s Offord Centre for Child Studies evaluated two group-based parenting programs to access health equity of caregivers to young children. Conducting a HEIA: ENG […]

The Strong Families lab at McMaster University has developed and will be facilitating psychoeducational stress workshops, ‘DESSERTS spelled backwards is STRESSED, but there’s not much sweet about it!’ that are targeted for children aged 7-12 years. Our goal is to […]

The McMaster Institute for Research on Aging – Intergenerational Study (MIRA-iGeN) has officially launched in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area (GTHA). The study aims to create an intergenerational cohort that includes grandparents, their children, and their grandchildren to investigate […]

The Promoting Healthy Families study completed the final wave of recruitment for the parenting programs offered at various agencies in Ontario. We have a total of 517 participants, who have either completed the programs and study visits; are attending the […]

Project summary: The research team recently published a manuscript in the journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, using data collected from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS). The 2014 OCHS is a province-wide study of child and youth health. […]

The Promoting Healthy Families: Pregnancy to Early Years study has officially launched at five agencies located in Ontario and Quebec. The Pregnancy to Early Years study aims to implement and assess the feasibility and acceptability of the Parenting Under Pressure […]

The Promoting Healthy Families study has officially launched at four agencies across Ontario. Two summer 2021 updates can be downloaded here: pdf1, pdf2 Study Overview The Promoting Healthy Families Study aims to rigorously implement and evaluate the effectiveness of Triple […]

Our goal is to understand how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affects psychological wellbeing and stress during and after pregnancy. Participants began Phase 1 when they were in their first, second, or third trimester of pregnancy. We continued following them during early […]