Carolyn S Dewa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1734701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn S Dewa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn S |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewa |
| SIGNATURE | DEWA C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5647-3905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dutch workers’ attitudes towards having a coworker with mental health issues or illness: A latent class analysis
The high tendency to the desire for social distance seems to contrast with the low number of respondents who personally had negative experiences with workers with MHI in the workplace. This suggests that the tendency to socially exclude this group was not based on their own experience. The finding that a large group of respondents indicated to want to learn more about how to deal with a co-worker with MHI is promising. Destigmatizing intervention…
Leveraging Campus Landscapes for Public Health: A Pilot Study to Understand the Psychological Effects of Urban Sheep Grazing on College Campuses
Since the 1980s, college students in the U.S. have self-reported a decline in their physical and emotional health. With these conditions compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and its physical distancing restrictions, higher education institutions have an increased responsibility to establish strategic interventions and health-promoting programs for their students. Research collaborations between public health professionals and environmental designe…
Individual factors associated with recidivism among mental health court program clients
How Economic Decision Modeling Can Facilitate Health Equity
This article offers examples of how modeling can motivate health equity inquiry and research. This article also considers how equity fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks, how economic modeling can broaden the range of options for improving health equity, and how information other than results of cost-effectiveness analyses can inform health technology assessment
Workers' Decisions to Disclose a Mental Health Issue to Managers and the Consequences
Background: Stigma can be a barrier to accessing effective interventions and work accommodations for mental illnesses. Fear of stigma's concomitant prejudice and discrimination can inhibit workers from asking for help. Thus, it may be important to develop effective interventions addressing workplace stigma. To identify important targets for these interventions, this study addresses three questions: (1) what proportion of workers experiencing ment…
The Effectiveness of Mental Health Courts in Reducing Recidivism and Police Contact: A Systematic Review
Can social firms contribute to alleviating the economic burden of psychiatric disabilities for the public healthcare system
In a number of countries, unemployment rates for people with psychiatric disabilities are much higher than in the general population. On the one hand, the expenses for mental health reach 3.5% of the total public health and social services budget in Québec. On the other hand, social firms (SFs) receive government subsidies. The objective was to compare public healthcare expenses for people with psychiatric disabilities who work in SFs with those …
NorthBeat’s Capacity-to-Consent Protocol for Obtaining Informed Consent from Youth Evaluation Participants: An Alternative to Parental Consent
Ethical practice compels evaluators to obtain informed consent from evaluation participants. When those participants are minors, parental consent is routinely sought. However, seeking parental consent may not be appropriate in all evaluation contexts. This practice note presents one context (mental health services research in rural Canada) where seeking parental consent for youths’ participation in research was considered unethical and unfeasible…
A Comparison of Healthcare Use and Costs for Workers with Psychiatric Disabilities Employed in Social Enterprises Versus Those Who Are Not Employed and Seeking Work
Les coûts des troubles mentaux en milieu de travail peuvent-ils être réduits
Le Forum économique mondial estime que, d’ici 2030, les coûts mondiaux des troubles mentaux devraient atteindre six mille milliards de dollars ; environ deux tiers de ces coûts seront attribués à la perte de productivité liée à l’incapacité. Cet article bref, examine les facteurs liés aux coûts de la maladie mentale en milieu de travail, identifie certains des éléments du milieu de travail qui pourraient être ciblés pour réduire les coûts et exam…
Meta‐Analysis of Risk Factors for Secondary Traumatic Stress in Therapeutic Work With Trauma Victims
Revisions to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic criteria in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM‐5 ; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) clarify that secondary exposure can lead to the development of impairing symptoms requiring treatment. Historically known as secondary traumatic stress (STS), this reaction occurs through repeatedly hearing the details of traumatic events exper…
Employment Benefit Receipt Among Ontario Public Disability Benefit Recipients with a Disability Related to a Mental Disorder
Organizational stressors associated with job stress and burnout in correctional officers: A systematic review
Substance Abuse and Smoking Among a Canadian Cohort of First Episode Psychosis Patients
Staff Perception of Aggressive Behaviour in Community Services for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Socioeconomic status and the risk of major depression: The Canadian National Population Health Survey
BACKGROUND: There are few longitudinal studies investigating the risk of major depression by socioeconomic status (SES). In this study, data from the longitudinal cohort of Canadian National Population Health Survey were used to estimate the risk of major depressive episode (MDE) over 6 years by SES levels. METHODS: The National Population Health Survey used a nationally representative sample of the Canadian general population. In this analysis, …
Factors Associated with Use of Mental Health Services for Depressed and/or Suicidal Youth Aged 15–24
Health Care Cost Matters for Homeless People: An Example of Costing Mental Health and Addiction Services in Homeless Shelters in Canada
The Use of the Multnomah Community Ability Scale as a Program Evaluation Tool
The Multnomah Community Ability Scale (MCAS) is a standardized measure of functioning of people with mental illness living in the community. This study assessed feasibility and utility of the MCAS for routine outcome monitoring of clients enrolled in intensive community support programs. Burden related to training and administration was assessed and scale properties were evaluated, using data collected from a multisite community mental health eva…
Planning for Multi-Site Ethics Review
This article is a brief report that draws on the literature and interviews with CMHEI investigators to explore the challenges of obtaining research ethics board approval for multi-site studies. It goes on to suggest how the complexity of multi-site approval could be addressed in terms of study budget, staff time, and study timelines
No Matter How You Land: Challenges of a Longitudinal Multi-Site Evaluation
In an earlier article, we described the mindset and process for implementing and conducting a multi-site study. In this article, we take the perspective of the multi-site study’s coordinating centre. Using the Community Mental Health Evaluation Initiative as a case study, we focus on four major aspects of the initiative — data collection and management, the evaluated programs, partnerships, and knowledge transfer. We discuss a variety of challeng…
Current Trends in Youth Suicide and Firearms Regulations
Direct and Indirect Time Inputs and Assertive Community Treatment
Considering a multisite study? How to take the leap and have a soft landing
Although most policymakers agree that a fundamental goal of the mental health system is to provide integrated community‐based services, there is little empirical evidence with which to plan such a system. Studies in the community mental health literature have not used a standard set of evaluation methods. One way of addressing this gap is through a multisite program evaluation in which multiple sites and programs evaluate the same outcomes using …
Chronic physical illness, psychiatric disorder and disability in the workplace
Chronic physical illness, psychiatric disorder and disability in the workplace
Socioeconomic status and the risk of major depression: The Canadian National Population Health Survey
BACKGROUND: There are few longitudinal studies investigating the risk of major depression by socioeconomic status (SES). In this study, data from the longitudinal cohort of Canadian National Population Health Survey were used to estimate the risk of major depressive episode (MDE) over 6 years by SES levels. METHODS: The National Population Health Survey used a nationally representative sample of the Canadian general population. In this analysis, …
Factors Associated with Use of Mental Health Services for Depressed and/or Suicidal Youth Aged 15–24
Considering a multisite study? How to take the leap and have a soft landing
Although most policymakers agree that a fundamental goal of the mental health system is to provide integrated community‐based services, there is little empirical evidence with which to plan such a system. Studies in the community mental health literature have not used a standard set of evaluation methods. One way of addressing this gap is through a multisite program evaluation in which multiple sites and programs evaluate the same outcomes using …
A Comparison of Healthcare Use and Costs for Workers with Psychiatric Disabilities Employed in Social Enterprises Versus Those Who Are Not Employed and Seeking Work
Current Trends in Youth Suicide and Firearms Regulations
Chronic physical illness, psychiatric disorder and disability in the workplace
Considering a multisite study? How to take the leap and have a soft landing
Although most policymakers agree that a fundamental goal of the mental health system is to provide integrated community‐based services, there is little empirical evidence with which to plan such a system. Studies in the community mental health literature have not used a standard set of evaluation methods. One way of addressing this gap is through a multisite program evaluation in which multiple sites and programs evaluate the same outcomes using …
Direct and Indirect Time Inputs and Assertive Community Treatment
The Use of the Multnomah Community Ability Scale as a Program Evaluation Tool
The Multnomah Community Ability Scale (MCAS) is a standardized measure of functioning of people with mental illness living in the community. This study assessed feasibility and utility of the MCAS for routine outcome monitoring of clients enrolled in intensive community support programs. Burden related to training and administration was assessed and scale properties were evaluated, using data collected from a multisite community mental health eva…
Planning for Multi-Site Ethics Review
This article is a brief report that draws on the literature and interviews with CMHEI investigators to explore the challenges of obtaining research ethics board approval for multi-site studies. It goes on to suggest how the complexity of multi-site approval could be addressed in terms of study budget, staff time, and study timelines
No Matter How You Land: Challenges of a Longitudinal Multi-Site Evaluation
In an earlier article, we described the mindset and process for implementing and conducting a multi-site study. In this article, we take the perspective of the multi-site study’s coordinating centre. Using the Community Mental Health Evaluation Initiative as a case study, we focus on four major aspects of the initiative — data collection and management, the evaluated programs, partnerships, and knowledge transfer. We discuss a variety of challeng…
Current Trends in Youth Suicide and Firearms Regulations
Health Care Cost Matters for Homeless People: An Example of Costing Mental Health and Addiction Services in Homeless Shelters in Canada
Factors Associated with Use of Mental Health Services for Depressed and/or Suicidal Youth Aged 15–24
Socioeconomic status and the risk of major depression: The Canadian National Population Health Survey
BACKGROUND: There are few longitudinal studies investigating the risk of major depression by socioeconomic status (SES). In this study, data from the longitudinal cohort of Canadian National Population Health Survey were used to estimate the risk of major depressive episode (MDE) over 6 years by SES levels. METHODS: The National Population Health Survey used a nationally representative sample of the Canadian general population. In this analysis, …
Organizational stressors associated with job stress and burnout in correctional officers: A systematic review
Substance Abuse and Smoking Among a Canadian Cohort of First Episode Psychosis Patients
Staff Perception of Aggressive Behaviour in Community Services for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Meta‐Analysis of Risk Factors for Secondary Traumatic Stress in Therapeutic Work With Trauma Victims
Revisions to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic criteria in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM‐5 ; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) clarify that secondary exposure can lead to the development of impairing symptoms requiring treatment. Historically known as secondary traumatic stress (STS), this reaction occurs through repeatedly hearing the details of traumatic events exper…
Employment Benefit Receipt Among Ontario Public Disability Benefit Recipients with a Disability Related to a Mental Disorder
Les coûts des troubles mentaux en milieu de travail peuvent-ils être réduits
Le Forum économique mondial estime que, d’ici 2030, les coûts mondiaux des troubles mentaux devraient atteindre six mille milliards de dollars ; environ deux tiers de ces coûts seront attribués à la perte de productivité liée à l’incapacité. Cet article bref, examine les facteurs liés aux coûts de la maladie mentale en milieu de travail, identifie certains des éléments du milieu de travail qui pourraient être ciblés pour réduire les coûts et exam…
NorthBeat’s Capacity-to-Consent Protocol for Obtaining Informed Consent from Youth Evaluation Participants: An Alternative to Parental Consent
Ethical practice compels evaluators to obtain informed consent from evaluation participants. When those participants are minors, parental consent is routinely sought. However, seeking parental consent may not be appropriate in all evaluation contexts. This practice note presents one context (mental health services research in rural Canada) where seeking parental consent for youths’ participation in research was considered unethical and unfeasible…
A Comparison of Healthcare Use and Costs for Workers with Psychiatric Disabilities Employed in Social Enterprises Versus Those Who Are Not Employed and Seeking Work
The Effectiveness of Mental Health Courts in Reducing Recidivism and Police Contact: A Systematic Review
Can social firms contribute to alleviating the economic burden of psychiatric disabilities for the public healthcare system
In a number of countries, unemployment rates for people with psychiatric disabilities are much higher than in the general population. On the one hand, the expenses for mental health reach 3.5% of the total public health and social services budget in Québec. On the other hand, social firms (SFs) receive government subsidies. The objective was to compare public healthcare expenses for people with psychiatric disabilities who work in SFs with those …
Individual factors associated with recidivism among mental health court program clients
How Economic Decision Modeling Can Facilitate Health Equity
This article offers examples of how modeling can motivate health equity inquiry and research. This article also considers how equity fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks, how economic modeling can broaden the range of options for improving health equity, and how information other than results of cost-effectiveness analyses can inform health technology assessment
Workers' Decisions to Disclose a Mental Health Issue to Managers and the Consequences
Background: Stigma can be a barrier to accessing effective interventions and work accommodations for mental illnesses. Fear of stigma's concomitant prejudice and discrimination can inhibit workers from asking for help. Thus, it may be important to develop effective interventions addressing workplace stigma. To identify important targets for these interventions, this study addresses three questions: (1) what proportion of workers experiencing ment…
Dutch workers’ attitudes towards having a coworker with mental health issues or illness: A latent class analysis
The high tendency to the desire for social distance seems to contrast with the low number of respondents who personally had negative experiences with workers with MHI in the workplace. This suggests that the tendency to socially exclude this group was not based on their own experience. The finding that a large group of respondents indicated to want to learn more about how to deal with a co-worker with MHI is promising. Destigmatizing intervention…
Leveraging Campus Landscapes for Public Health: A Pilot Study to Understand the Psychological Effects of Urban Sheep Grazing on College Campuses
Since the 1980s, college students in the U.S. have self-reported a decline in their physical and emotional health. With these conditions compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and its physical distancing restrictions, higher education institutions have an increased responsibility to establish strategic interventions and health-promoting programs for their students. Research collaborations between public health professionals and environmental designe…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Psychiatry (16 works) · Mental health (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Public health (6 works)