A recent study in Ontario by the Institute forWork & Health (IWH) finds claimants who report poor treatment by WSIB case managers face a higher risk of serious psychological distress 18 months post-injury. Christa Orchard, research associate at IWH and lead author of the study says this is the first study we know of that establishes a link between case manager communications and elevated psychological distress, independent of poor mental health prior to the injury or illness.

This article summary from EENet on the organizational dynamics in providing care may help strengthen your day to day efforts to participate within your organization.  

Along with the usual, keep a grip on thyself, it does a good job of incorporating managerial along with front line perspectives to actions at the organizational and systems level.

Exciting news from the Understanding Mental Health and Well-Being in Later Life project at PSSP! We have now added 6 additional language translations to our multilingual resource series. We've now updated the Mental health and well-being in later life: A multilingual resource series page with 6 additional language translations which brings our language count to 10.

The Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (CICMH) recently launched a digital toolkit to help those within the post-secondary athletic environment take steps to support student-athlete mental health.

On February 23rd, EENet hosted a webinar, “Fidelity as part of a learning health care system - Lessons learned in Early Psychosis Intervention.” The webinar was co-hosted by the Fidelity Monitoring in Ontario Community of Interest. If you missed this webinar, the recording is now available.

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Systemic racism affects a wide variety of health outcomes. This includes the mental health of young people in Canada, spanning across access to care, experience of mental health services and outcomes of care. In Canada, there is no best practice framework that unifies research, education and clinical care for racialized youth. Coordinated efforts to collect race-based data are also lacking. In postgrad­uate medical education, a guide does not exist on how to implement anti-racism teaching and training relevant to child mental health in Canada.

There is evidence that people with mental health disorders tend to have poor outcomes when they have coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A preliminary meta-analysis showed that people with mental health disorders were at higher risk of dying from COVID-19, but the meta-analysis had methodological issues.

An international team of researchers conducted a systematic review to determine if people with mental illness were at increased risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to people without mental illness.

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Ethnic differences in mental health status and service utilization.

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Check out this new Research Snapshot!Suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury among transgender populations

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