Rising Prevalence and Incidence Trends in children and youth with ADHD in Ontario, Canada
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder. This condition can impair academic, social, and/or occupational functions. For these reasons, it is important to conduct surveillance of ADHD trends over time for the purpose of planning for healthcare services and resources. Yet, studies on the prevalence and incidence rates for ADHD in Canada have largely used case-finding algorithms applied to health administrative data that have not been adequately validated so it is unclear how accurate these algorithms are at detecting cases of ADHD.
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Hyper-doing? Hyper-don’t
Is your to-do list growing longer and controlling your life? Do you measure the success of a day by how much you have achieved? Are you finding it difficult, or guilt-provoking, to take rest? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you are almost certainly “hyper-doing”. In fact, I think that many academics, authors, researchers, and health-care professionals are “hyper-doers”. I’m so good at hyper-doing that, ironically, I wrote an article on it.
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Who is looking after our student-athletes?
In the world of collegiate athletics this year, there are major shifts occurring in the alignment of Athletic Conferences: e.g., the Big 10 now includes 14 teams from coast to coast. In the reporting about these discussions, deals, and decisions there has been no public consideration of the consequences for the student-athletes. With the initial announcement in June 2022 that USC and UCLA were joining the Big10, many of us sleep and circadian rhythm scientists and clinicians were concerned about the negative effects of increased cross time-zone travel on the health and performance (athletic and academic) of the student-athletes.
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Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis
Democracy has been on the decline globally for 16 consecutive years. U.S. democracy mirrors a similar trend, with increasing public distrust in government, rising polarizations, and growing disinformation and other threats from rapid advances in technology—all of which sound the alarm bell that such division has made it difficult for diverse peoples living in the U.S. to listen to each other and find common ground. And amid these democratic challenges, the 2022 NAEP Civics assessment results show a persistently low level of civics knowledge – a warning sign that our younger generation is not adequately prepared for these complex challenges
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Upcoming webinar: Creating a research agenda and developing your personal academic brand
On December 8, we are hosting the next How to Do Research and Get Published webinar, titled ‘How to create a research agenda and develop your personal academic brand.’
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Brief mental health support for Ontario healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
There is considerable research now, showing the negative mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Across many countries, about one in three people in the general population reported psychological distress. Those at higher risk for being infected with COVID-19, reported more depression and anxiety symptoms. But the healthcare system needed to keep functioning, as many people were sick and dying. How could HCWs be supported to continue their vital work? The current study looked at whether a brief coping-focused psychotherapy treatment, would be associated with positive changes in Ontario HCWs’ mental health during the pandemic.
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Editors in Action: Upcoming Webinar on DEI in Academic Journals
In this live webinar, a group of Sage journal Editors present lightning talks on their DEI journal activities, followed by a Q&A.
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Rumours of the demise of blood glucose monitoring are premature!
It may seem a provocative statement, but it seems to us that blood glucose monitoring (BGM), a technology that has taken care of the vast majority of people with diabetes for the past 40+ years, is being ushered to an untimely grave. Companies like LifeScan are bucking this trend and innovating for people using BGM. OneTouch® Bluetooth® connected BGMs with a companion OneTouch Reveal® (OTR) mobile app put powerful diabetes management tools right in the phones in the hands of people with diabetes. The app shows glucose trends, provides insights, and allows people to share data directly to their nurse or doctor.
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Beyond the sensational headlines, predatory marriage is real – and doctors should be paying attention.
In a well-publicized case of predatory marriage in Canada , Hunt v. Worrod, a 50 year old man who sustained a severe brain injury in an ATV accident, making him incapable of managing his finances and personal care. He married a woman with whom he had been in an on again off again relationship only a few days after being discharged from hospital and unbeknownst to his two sons. By the time they discovered their father missing and found him later the same day, a wedding had already happened, orchestrated, and attended by the bride and her relatives. His sons challenged the marriage on the grounds that their father did not have the capacity to make a decision to marry. The marriage was voided in a ruling helped by an unusually large (compared to similar cases) amount of medical evidence describing Mr. Hunt’s cognitive problems.
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Rethinking older adults' sleep in China from a social behavioral perspective
China is currently experiencing rapid growth in its older adult population, a demographic shift that has the potential to negatively impact its economy and market. This includes issues such as labor shortages and decreased productivity. One significant issue relates to the sleep patterns of older adults.
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Emotions and sustainability
The climate crisis is intensely emotional: many of us feel anxious about the future and frustrated at the lack of adequate political action. At the same time, we may be hopeful that we can avert the worst of the projected outcomes and maybe even feel excited at the prospect of building a better world. Yet despite the clear links between emotions and sustainability, scientific knowledge is lacking on how emotions shape and are shaped by the climate and biodiversity crises, and how our emotions relate to pro-environmental behaviour.
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Does Crowdshipping of Parcels Generate New Passenger Trips? Evidence from the Netherlands
In a world where the demand for parcel delivery is continuously rising, crowdshipping has emerged as a promising concept. Crowdshipping is a delivery system in which citizens undertake occasional deliveries during their daily commute. This concept is seen as a potential solution to congestion and sustainability problems, as it could reduce the amount of freight trips needed in the system. However, there is also a risk that crowdshipping deliveries could involve significant detours or generate new trips from people who did not yet have travel plans. While these risks could increase the pressure on the traffic network, they seem to have been overlooked in research.
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Social Justice Informed Therapeutic Practice: Relational, ethical, transformative and politically-informed
In our recent book, The Handbook of Social Justice in Psychological Therapies, we bring together authors from across counselling, clinical and educational psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, people with lived experience of the topics, and participatory action researchers. We try to rise to current professional and societal challenges and provide contributions on both theoretical understandings and how we might enact our social justice values both inside and outside of the therapy room.
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Homeward Bound: A Descriptive Study of Direct Discharge Home from the Pediatric ICU
Critical illness in a child is a challenging experience for all involved. Patients are generally admitted to a specialized pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) for their care. Prior to discharge patients are commonly transferred to an acute care ward where care can be coordinated and the transition to outpatient care can be initiated. However sometimes patients are discharged directly to home from the PICU (DDH – direct discharge home) and bypass the acute care ward. This can be for a variety of reasons.
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Expanding High School Counseling in a Social Media World
Social media use has been linked to increases in mental illness than experienced by previous generations. Although social media was intended as a place for connection, it has become a place for adverse comparison that contributes to experiences of suicide ideation, body dysmorphia, eating disorders, and loneliness. Many students enter their post high school experience with various unprocessed difficulties that make their academic, family, and career demands more strenuous to manage. An expansion of counseling services, especially in high school, can mitigate the growing crisis of social comparison induced mental illness.
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Introducing a brand-new Special Collection: Circular Economy in Machine Design
In this Special Collection, the spotlight is on the circular economy, a concept that has been gaining traction over the years. The launch of this collection is driven by the belief that the circular economy is key to unlocking sustainable production and product development
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In the conscientious moments of feeling worse, you might want to nurture your health over a quick fix
Perceptions of personal health are inherently subjective, varying in depth and scope of consideration from person to person. Expressing one's health status can be a challenge for many of us, yet our reports have proved to be a remarkably good indicator or population health. What insights do these straightforward scales like self-rated health (SRH) provide for our well-being as a population and as individuals?
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Middle School Students Provide Insight on Using Television Clips for Vaping Education
Over the last five years adolescent use of e-cigarettes, also known as vaping, has risen rapidly. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey found that 2.5 million high school and 380,000 middle school students in the United States currently vape. This is concerning because vaping in young people is associated with several harms. For example, vaping in adolescence is associated with nicotine addiction and starting to smoke combustible cigarettes later in life. There is also the risk of acute illness, such as e-cigarette, or vaping, product-use associated lung injury (EVALI), a disease that first garnered public attention in summer of 2019. By February 2020, more than 2,700 cases requiring hospitalization of EVALI had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with over 75% of these patients under 35. In mid-January 2020, the CDC reported a link between vaping THC containing devices and EVALI, but noted that 14% of cases were in patients who exclusively used nicotine containing products.
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