Laura Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5220054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7120-6629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Evaluation of Treatment Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Outpatient Group Treatment of Adolescents
Differences in Clinical Profiles of Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents Compared to Cis-gender Adolescents Attending a Tertiary Mental Health Clinic
Comparing the reliability and validity of youth‐reported checklists and standardized interviews for categorical measurement of emotional and behavioral problems
INTRODUCTION: Self-completed checklists measuring youth mental health problems produce dimensional scale scores and can be converted to categorical classifications representing the presence/absence of psychopathology. We test whether categorical classifications from scale scores are equivalent psychometrically to categorical classifications of the same problems obtained by lay-administered standardized structured diagnostic interviews. METHODS: T…
Problem checklists and standardized diagnostic interviews
BACKGROUND: The standard approach for classifying child/youth psychiatric disorder as present or absent in epidemiological studies is lay-administered structured, standardized diagnostic interviews (interviews) based on categorical taxonomies such as the DSM and ICD. Converting problem checklist scale scores (checklists) to binary classifications provides a simple, inexpensive alternative. METHODS: Using assessments obtained from 737 parents, we …
Adolescent health outcomes
Experiencing both CM and PV substantially increases the odds of poor health outcomes among adolescents, and moderating relationships affect females and males differently. Continued research is needed to develop effective prevention strategies and to examine protective factors that may mitigate these adverse health outcomes, including potential sex differences
The trajectories of depressive symptoms among working adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
The negative mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are specific to subgroups within the population and stressors may persist and worsen over time. Providing access to evidence-informed approaches that foster adaptive coping, alleviate the depressive symptoms, and promote the mental health of working adults is critical
The joint association of family-level inadequate housing and neighbourhood-level antisocial behaviour with child mental health problems
Structural Competency
Introduction: Research on disparities in health and health care has demonstrated that social, economic, and political factors are key drivers of poor health outcomes. Yet the role of such structural forces on health and health care has been incorporated unevenly into medical training. The framework of structural competency offers a paradigm for training health professionals to recognize and respond to the impact of upstream, structural factors on…
Social assistance and trajectories of child mental health problems in Canada
What Sexual and Gender Minority People Want Researchers to Know About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questions
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people—including members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—are understudied and underrepresented in research. Current sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions do not sufficiently engage SGM people, and there is a critical gap in understanding how SOGI questions reduce inclusion and accurate empirical representation. We conducted a qualitative study to answer the quest…
Six-Month Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Service Contacts among Children and Youth in Ontario
OBJECTIVES: To present the 6-month prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of mental disorders and mental health-related service contacts in a sample of children (4 to 11 years) and youth (12 to 17 years) in Ontario. METHODS: The 2014 Ontario Child Health Study is a provincially representative survey of 6537 families with children aged 4 to 17 years in Ontario. DSM-IV-TR mental disorders were assessed using the Mini International Neuropsychiat…
Examining the relationships between parent experiences and youth self-reports of slapping/spanking
It may be important to consider parent/primary caregiver's childhood experiences with victimization and maltreatment along with their current parental mental health, substance use and family circumstances when developing and testing strategies to prevent slapping/spanking
Effects of Regulation on Methadone and Buprenorphine Provision in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
Childhood and family influences on body mass index in early adulthood
Overweight and obesity are steadily increasing worldwide with the greatest prevalence occurring in high-income countries. Many factors influence body mass index (BMI); however multiple influences assessed in families and individuals are rarely studied together in a prospective design. Our objective was to model the impact of multiple influences at the child (low birth weight, history of maltreatment, a history of childhood mental and physical con…
Income and Area Effects on Voluntary Association Membership in Canada
Applying multi-level modelling techniques to 2003 Canadian General Social Survey and 2001 Census Profile data , this study investigates the influence of individual income, contextual poverty and income inequality on voluntary association membership in Canada. Both individual and contextual effects on membership are uncovered, in addition to a significant cross-level interaction between individual income and area level income inequality. As indivi…
Pooled energy budget and human life history
Human life history contains a series of paradoxes not easily explained by classical life history theory. Although overall reproductive output is higher than in related primates, juvenile growth is slower and age-specific reproductive rates decline faster with age. A simple energetic model would predict that growth and reproductive rates should be positively correlated and that reproductive effort should not decelerate with age. The pattern of neg…
The Continuity of Living for Change
What Sexual and Gender Minority People Want Researchers to Know About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questions
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people—including members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—are understudied and underrepresented in research. Current sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions do not sufficiently engage SGM people, and there is a critical gap in understanding how SOGI questions reduce inclusion and accurate empirical representation. We conducted a qualitative study to answer the quest…
Income and Area Effects on Voluntary Association Membership in Canada
Applying multi-level modelling techniques to 2003 Canadian General Social Survey and 2001 Census Profile data , this study investigates the influence of individual income, contextual poverty and income inequality on voluntary association membership in Canada. Both individual and contextual effects on membership are uncovered, in addition to a significant cross-level interaction between individual income and area level income inequality. As indivi…
Social assistance and trajectories of child mental health problems in Canada
The Continuity of Living for Change
The Continuity of Living for Change
Pooled energy budget and human life history
Human life history contains a series of paradoxes not easily explained by classical life history theory. Although overall reproductive output is higher than in related primates, juvenile growth is slower and age-specific reproductive rates decline faster with age. A simple energetic model would predict that growth and reproductive rates should be positively correlated and that reproductive effort should not decelerate with age. The pattern of neg…
Income and Area Effects on Voluntary Association Membership in Canada
Applying multi-level modelling techniques to 2003 Canadian General Social Survey and 2001 Census Profile data , this study investigates the influence of individual income, contextual poverty and income inequality on voluntary association membership in Canada. Both individual and contextual effects on membership are uncovered, in addition to a significant cross-level interaction between individual income and area level income inequality. As indivi…
Childhood and family influences on body mass index in early adulthood
Overweight and obesity are steadily increasing worldwide with the greatest prevalence occurring in high-income countries. Many factors influence body mass index (BMI); however multiple influences assessed in families and individuals are rarely studied together in a prospective design. Our objective was to model the impact of multiple influences at the child (low birth weight, history of maltreatment, a history of childhood mental and physical con…
Effects of Regulation on Methadone and Buprenorphine Provision in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
Six-Month Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Service Contacts among Children and Youth in Ontario
OBJECTIVES: To present the 6-month prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of mental disorders and mental health-related service contacts in a sample of children (4 to 11 years) and youth (12 to 17 years) in Ontario. METHODS: The 2014 Ontario Child Health Study is a provincially representative survey of 6537 families with children aged 4 to 17 years in Ontario. DSM-IV-TR mental disorders were assessed using the Mini International Neuropsychiat…
Examining the relationships between parent experiences and youth self-reports of slapping/spanking
It may be important to consider parent/primary caregiver's childhood experiences with victimization and maltreatment along with their current parental mental health, substance use and family circumstances when developing and testing strategies to prevent slapping/spanking
Structural Competency
Introduction: Research on disparities in health and health care has demonstrated that social, economic, and political factors are key drivers of poor health outcomes. Yet the role of such structural forces on health and health care has been incorporated unevenly into medical training. The framework of structural competency offers a paradigm for training health professionals to recognize and respond to the impact of upstream, structural factors on…
Social assistance and trajectories of child mental health problems in Canada
What Sexual and Gender Minority People Want Researchers to Know About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questions
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people—including members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—are understudied and underrepresented in research. Current sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions do not sufficiently engage SGM people, and there is a critical gap in understanding how SOGI questions reduce inclusion and accurate empirical representation. We conducted a qualitative study to answer the quest…
The trajectories of depressive symptoms among working adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
The negative mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are specific to subgroups within the population and stressors may persist and worsen over time. Providing access to evidence-informed approaches that foster adaptive coping, alleviate the depressive symptoms, and promote the mental health of working adults is critical
The joint association of family-level inadequate housing and neighbourhood-level antisocial behaviour with child mental health problems
Adolescent health outcomes
Experiencing both CM and PV substantially increases the odds of poor health outcomes among adolescents, and moderating relationships affect females and males differently. Continued research is needed to develop effective prevention strategies and to examine protective factors that may mitigate these adverse health outcomes, including potential sex differences
Problem checklists and standardized diagnostic interviews
BACKGROUND: The standard approach for classifying child/youth psychiatric disorder as present or absent in epidemiological studies is lay-administered structured, standardized diagnostic interviews (interviews) based on categorical taxonomies such as the DSM and ICD. Converting problem checklist scale scores (checklists) to binary classifications provides a simple, inexpensive alternative. METHODS: Using assessments obtained from 737 parents, we …
Comparing the reliability and validity of youth‐reported checklists and standardized interviews for categorical measurement of emotional and behavioral problems
INTRODUCTION: Self-completed checklists measuring youth mental health problems produce dimensional scale scores and can be converted to categorical classifications representing the presence/absence of psychopathology. We test whether categorical classifications from scale scores are equivalent psychometrically to categorical classifications of the same problems obtained by lay-administered standardized structured diagnostic interviews. METHODS: T…
An Evaluation of Treatment Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Outpatient Group Treatment of Adolescents
Differences in Clinical Profiles of Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents Compared to Cis-gender Adolescents Attending a Tertiary Mental Health Clinic
Medicine (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)