Magdalena Janus

Datos Biográficos

ID299300
NOMBREMagdalena Janus
NOMBRESMagdalena
APELLIDOJanus
FIRMAJANUS M
AFILIACIONESMcMaster University
ORCID0000-0001-7806-1696
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAS87
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1989
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Understanding the early development and well-being of children from refugee backgrounds in kindergarten from the perspective of teachers and settlement workers

    Open AccessMonique Gagné Petteni, Monique Hélène Gagné et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2026

    Children from refugee backgrounds in British Columbia, Canada, scored significantly lower in 14 of the 16 areas of development in kindergarten compared with their non-migrant peers, according to teacher-assessed Early Development Instrument results. • Focus groups with educators and settlement workers helped to create a more fulsome, nuanced understanding of the population-level results, including the unique developmental strengths of children fr…

  • Children supervising children across low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessMónica Ruiz-Casares, Ruo Ying Feng et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2025

    Around the world, many young children spend time supervising or being supervised by other children without adults. This can have both positive (e.g., strengthening sibling ties) and negative (e.g., hinder supervisor’s schooling) consequences for children, families, and communities. Population-based information from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is scarce on this phenomenon. Poisson random effect regression models using the most recent M…

  • Population health begins in early childhood

    Open AccessJudith L Perrigo, Leyla Karimli et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    School readiness skills in early childhood are strongly linked to later academic performance, health, and overall quality of life. Various tools, including the Early Development Instrument (EDI), have been used to assess children’s school readiness skills. The EDI is an internationally utilized, holistic measure used to monitor population trends in developmental health and school readiness in early childhood. Although EDI scores demonstrated asso…

  • Childhood poverty, social support, immigration background and adolescent health and life satisfaction

    Open AccessRandip Gill, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2025

    OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether poverty (neighborhood and household) was associated with future health or life satisfaction outcomes and whether the association operated through social support (adult support at home, adult support at school, peer belonging), or differed by the immigration background (nonimmigrant family or immigrant family) of the family. METHODS: This study utilized a retrospective, longitudinal, population-based cohort …

  • Educators’ Perceptions of Their Own Mental Health and Young Children’s Skills in the Second Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada

    Open AccessNatalie Spadafora, Caroline Reid-Westoby et al.ARTICLEJournal of Education2025

    The current study aimed to understand the perceptions of kindergarten and primary (Grades 1 and 2) educators in Ontario, Canada, regarding their students’ developmental and academic skills and their own mental health during the 2021 to 2022 school year. Participants comprised 402 Ontario educators who completed an online survey. Educators perceived their students to be struggling in many areas. Results revealed that educators perceived their youn…

  • Variations in Conduct, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among Children and Youth from Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Immigrant Backgrounds in British Columbia, Canada

    Open AccessMonique Gagné Petteni, Carly Magee et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2025

    Despite growing attention to child and youth mental health, knowledge gaps exist related to how mental disorders vary for children and youth from diverse backgrounds. The purpose of the present study was to investigate how conduct, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and mood/anxiety diagnoses varied by immigrant, refugee, and non-immigrant background in British Columbia, Canada. The study utilized population-based, linked administra…

  • Examining interparental conflict, parent-child conflict, and child emotion regulation within the Family Check-Up®

    Open AccessKatrina R Abela, Andrea Gonzalez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Developmental…2025Referencias: 66

    Interparental and parent-child conflict are key familial risk factors for emotion regulation (ER) difficulties in early childhood. This study examined the impact of the Family Check-Up® (FCU), a preventative family-centered intervention, on child ER at 12 months post-intervention, and whether the FCU moderated the association between early exposure to family conflicts (interparental and parent-child conflict) and ER outcomes. In a longitudinal ra…

  • Poverty type, immigration background, and secondary school academic outcomes for children in British Columbia

    Open AccessRandip Gill, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2025Referencias: 3

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11218-025-10093-x

  • Pre- versus post-Covid-19 pandemic comparison of kindergarten teacher-reported child development in multiple Canadian jurisdictions

    Open AccessMarc Jambon, Caroline Reid-Westoby et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Referencias: 43

    Little is known so far about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children. We assessed the effect of the pandemic on pre-existing developmental trends in this population-level, repeated cross-sectional cohort design study of child development at school entry, measured with the kindergarten teacher-completed Early Development Instrument (EDI) in the 10 years prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and two years after. Individual EDI d…

  • The Family-Check-Up® Autism Implementation Research (Fair) Study

    Open AccessTeresa Bennett, Irene Drmic et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction Prevalence rates of emotional and behavior problems (EBP) in autistic children and youth are high (40–70%), and often cause severe and chronic impairment. Furthermore, autistic children are also more likely to experience family “social-ecological” adversity compared to neurotypically developing peers, including social isolation, child maltreatment, caregiver mental illness, and socioeconomic risk. These family stressors increase the …

  • Neighbourhood-level socioeconomic status and prevalence of teacher-reported health disorders among Canadian kindergarten children

    Open AccessMagdalena Janus, Marni Brownell et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background The evidence on the association between neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES) and health disorders in young children is scarce. This study examined the prevalence of health disorders in Canadian kindergarten (5–6 years old) children in relation to neighborhood SES in 12/13 Canadian jurisdictions. Methods Data on child development at school entry for an eligible 1,372,980 children out of the total population of 1,435,428 childre…

  • Shifting play experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessJessie-Lee D Mcisaac, Randi Cummings et al.ARTICLEEuropean Early Childhood…2024

    Children’s play has shifted within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly with increased time within the family home. This study responds to the following research questions: How did COVID-19 restrictions influence children’s play within and outside the home? How did parents describe their role in their children’s play during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic? Canadian Maritime families (n = 30) took part in three telephone inte…

  • Changes in peer belonging, school climate, and the emotional health of immigrant, refugee, and non‐immigrant early adolescents

    Open AccessKaleekal Thomson, Carly Magee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2024

    INTRODUCTION: Early adolescents who are new to Canada experience dual challenges of navigating developmental changes and multiple cultures. This study examined how changes in early adolescents' emotional health from ages 9 to 12 differed by immigration background, and to what extent peer belonging and supportive school climate protected or promoted their emotional health. METHODS: This study drew upon linked self-report and administrative data. A…

  • Disparities in Child Development by Maternal Birthplace and Child Sex among Kindergarten Children in Manitoba, Canada

    Open AccessMarcelo L Urquia, Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2024

    Little is known about differences in child developmental vulnerability before school entry according to maternal birthplace and sex. Official immigration records were linked with the Early Development Instrument assessments among children in kindergarten in the province of Manitoba, Canada (2005-2017). Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios of vulnerability in five developmental domains associated with maternal birthplace and child …

  • Psychometrics of psychosocial behavior items under age 6 years

    Open AccessMarcus Waldman, Alanagh Raikes et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal2024Referencias: 57

    Because healthy psychosocial development in the first years of life is critical to lifelong well‐being, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations are increasingly interested in monitoring psychosocial behaviors among populations of children. In response, the World Health Organization is developing the Global Scales of Early Development Psychosocial Form (GSED PF) to facilitate population‐level psychosocial monitoring. Once validated, the GS…

  • Seroprevalence of Sars-CoV-2 antibodies among children receiving primary care in Toronto, Ontario

    Open AccessMary Aglipay, Jeffrey C Kwong et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 14

  • Does receipt of social housing impact mental health? Results of a quasi-experimental study in the Greater Toronto Area

    Open AccessJames R Dunn, K Smith et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 36

  • The creation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for children aged 0–3 years

    Open AccessGareth McCray, Dana Charles Mccoy et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: With the ratification of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an increased emphasis on early childhood development (ECD) and well-being. The WHO led Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) project aims to provide population and programmatic level measures of ECD for 0-3 years that are valid, reliable and have psychometrically stable performance across geographical, cultural and language contexts. This paper reports on the …

  • Association between pregnancy planning or intention and early child development

    Open AccessJorge Andrés Delgado‐ron, Magdalena Janus et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Sustainable Development Goals have a specific target to “ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development” by 2030. There is sparse literature regarding the impact of pregnancy intention (wantedness and timing) or planning on child development. We aimed to summarize the evidence measuring the association between unintended or unplanned pregnancy and child development for children aged 3 to 5. We included studi…

  • Childhood poverty and school readiness

    Open AccessRandip Gill, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2023

    Children who experienced combined poverty had lower levels of school readiness at kindergarten, regardless of timing and immigration background

  • Relative Importance of Well-Being Determinants in Atlantic Canadian Families During the Pandemic

    Open AccessTaylor G Hill, Jessie-Lee D Mcisaac et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2023

    Framed by the socio-ecological model of well-being, we examined the relative importance of factors contributing to three dimensions of well-being (child, parent, and family) during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of 536 participants from the Atlantic provinces of Canada answered a cross-sectional survey in 2021, covering experiences during the pandemic (eg, changes in family life and well-being). Well-being was assessed with 3 single-item measure…

  • Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Early Development Instrument in a sample of Jordanian children

    Open AccessEmad Ghassab Ababneh, Eric Duku et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2022

    Background Investing in children’s early years can have a lasting positive effect, such as better academic outcomes throughout their school careers. In Jordan, investments have been made in early childhood development and early childhood care and education to improve children’s school readiness. School readiness comprises a range of abilities needed to succeed in school, including physical, emotional, social, and cognitive skills. To measure the …

  • Children’s screen use and school readiness at 4-6 years

    Open AccessLeigh M Vanderloo, Magdalena Janus et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Screen use in early childhood is associated with increased vulnerability in developmental readiness for school, with increased risk for poorer language and cognitive development in kindergarten, especially among high users

  • Population-Based Teacher-Rated Assessment of Anxiety Among Canadian Kindergarten Children

    Open AccessMagdalena Janus, Julia Ryan et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2022

    Despite anxiety being a prevalent mental health problem in children, little data exist on the pervasiveness and levels of anxiety symptoms in kindergarteners. Data from the Early Development Instrument, a teacher-completed, population-level measure of child development, were collected across Canada from 2004 to 2015. The final analytic sample consisted of 974,319 children of whom 2.6% were classified as "highly anxious". Compared to children who …

  • Family responsibilities and mental health of kindergarten educators during the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in Ontario, Canada

    Open AccessNatalie Spadafora, Caroline Reid-Westoby et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 3