Helen‐Maria Vasiliadis

Biographic Data

ID5413181
NAMEHelen‐Maria Vasiliadis
GIVEN NAMESHelen‐Maria
FAMILY NAMEVasiliadis
SIGNATUREVASILIADIS H M
AFFILIATIONSUniversité de Sherbrooke
ORCID0000-0003-0186-6060
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Talking with pregnant women exposed to cannabis use after cannabis legalization

    Open AccessKaren A Domínguez-Cancino, Rose Chabot et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2025

    Background The rising prevalence of prenatal cannabis use in high-income countries presents a growing concern for the medical community. Despite guidelines outlining risks, healthcare and social service professionals often struggle to discuss cannabis use with pregnant women. This study examines how these interactions have evolved following the Cannabis Act in Québec, focusing on how professionals respond to and provide guidance for women who rep…

  • Exploring family physicians’ mental health referrals via centralized referral systems in Quebec, Canada

    Open AccessJessica Spagnolo, Marie Beauséjour et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2025

    Background Centralized referral mechanisms anchored in primary care have been implemented to facilitate timely and appropriate access to health care in Quebec, Canada, like via Centre de répartition des demandes de services (CRDS), a regionally centralized referral system used by family physicians (FPs) for new requests to specialty care, including psychiatric services. CRDS for psychiatry was implemented in 2019, where local centralized referral…

  • Factors associated with mental health service use during the pandemic

    Open AccessHelen‐Maria Vasiliadis, Jessica Spagnolo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2024

    Background: Scarce are the studies focusing on initiation of new mental health service use (MHSU) and distinguishing individuals who have sought services but have been unsuccessful in accessing these. Aims: Assessing the factors associated with initiating new MHSU as compared to no MHSU due to self-reported no need, no MHSU due to health system and personal barriers and MHSU using resources already in place. Methods: The sample included participa…

  • Changes in the incidence of cannabis-related disorders after the Cannabis Act and the Covid-19 pandemic in Québec, Canada

    Open AccessPablo Martínez, Christophe Huỳnh et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2024

    The incidence rates of CRD diagnoses across Québec appears to have increased following the implementation of the CCA and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings echo public health concerns regarding potential cannabis-related harms and are consistent with previous Canadian studies

  • Factors associated with past-year medication use and psychotherapy in adults with suicidal ideation in France

    Open AccessMathilde Husky, Christophe Léon et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2023

    Background: The objective of the study is to assess the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with past-year medication use and/or psychotherapy among adults with suicidal ideation in the past 12 months. Methods: Data were drawn from the 2017 Health Barometer survey, a large computer-assisted telephone survey on a representative sample of the general population aged 18 to 75 years living in metropolitan France ( n = 25,319). Logistic a…

  • Suicidal ideation and mental health care

    Open AccessHelen‐Maria Vasiliadis, Christophe Léon et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2023

    BACKGROUND: Population-based studies have shown that less than one in two individuals reporting suicidal ideation also report past-year mental health service use. Only a few studies have looked at different types of providers consulted. There is a need to better understand the factors associated with different provider combinations of mental health service use in representative samples of individuals with suicidal ideation. AIMS: The aim of the c…

  • Factors associated with change in moderate or severe symptoms of anxiety and depression in community-living adults and older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessHelen‐Maria Vasiliadis, Jessica Spagnolo et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2023References: 32

    Health and socio-economic factors were associated with changes in symptoms of anxiety and depression during the pandemic, further increasing inequities in mental health needs. Public health campaigns on the importance of healthy behaviours should continue and health policies should reduce economic and social barriers to integrated substance use and mental health care

  • Predictors of Length of Hospitalization and Impact on Early Readmission for Mental Disorders

    Open AccessLia Gentil, Guy Grenier et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Length of hospitalization, if inappropriate to patient needs, may be associated with early readmission, reflecting sub-optimal hospital treatment, and translating difficulties to access outpatient care after discharge. This study identified predictors of brief-stay (1-6 days), mid-stay (7-30 days) or long-stay (≥31 days) hospitalization, and evaluated how lengths of hospital stay impacted on early readmission (within 30 days) among 3729 patients …

  • Traumatic stress in Canadian lawyers

    Marie‐Jeanne Leonard, Helen‐Maria Vasiliadis et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2021

    Lawyers exposed to trauma-related cases represent an at-risk group for PTSD. The findings highlight the powerful impacts that interpersonal relationships and self-care may have in buffering this health hazard. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Predictors of Recurrent High Emergency Department Use among Patients with Mental Disorders

    Open AccessLia Gentil, Guy Grenier et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Few studies have examined predictors of recurrent high ED use. This study assessed predictors of recurrent high ED use over two and three consecutive years, compared with high one-year ED use. This five-year longitudinal study is based on a cohort of 3121 patients who visited one of six Quebec (Canada) ED at least three times in 2014-2015. Multinomial logistic regression was performed. Clinical, sociodemographic and service use variables were ide…

  • The Factors Associated with 3-Year Mortality Stratified by Physical and Mental Multimorbidity and Area of Residence Deprivation in Primary Care Community-Living Older Adults

    Open AccessHelen‐Maria Vasiliadis, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2021References: 1

    Objectives: To examine the risk factors of mortality stratified by physical and mental multimorbidity (PMM) and area socioeconomic status. Methods: Cox regression analyses were used to study 3-year all-cause mortality in primary care older adults stratified by PMM status, and area of residence material and social deprivation. Results: There were socioeconomic differences in the associations between PMM and mortality. Continuity of care decreased …

  • Lifetime traumatic events, health-related quality of life, and satisfaction with life in older adults

    Open AccessCatherine Lamoureux‐Lamarche, Helen‐Maria VasiliadisARTICLEQuality of Life Research2017

  • Les programmes de prise en charge financière des psychothérapies en Australie et en Angleterre

    Open AccessHelen‐Maria Vasiliadis, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis et al.ARTICLESanté mentale au Québec2016

    L’article décrit les programmes de prise en charge financière des psychothérapies en Australie et en Angleterre. Au début des années 2000, le gouvernement australien a implanté une réforme de santé publique visant à permettre un meilleur accès, gratuit ou peu coûteux, aux psychothérapies brèves, en soin primaire, pour les personnes souffrant de troubles mentaux courants. Cette réforme reconnaît l’importance du rôle du médecin généraliste dans la …

  • Effect of Scattered-Site Housing Using Rent Supplements and Intensive Case Management on Housing Stability Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illness

    Vicky Stergiopoulos, Sung-Wook Hwang et al.ARTICLEJAMA2015

    Importance Scattered-site housing with Intensive Case Management (ICM) may be an appropriate and less-costly option for homeless adults with mental illness who do not require the treatment intensity of Assertive Community Treatment. Objective To examine the effect of scattered-site housing with ICM services on housing stability and generic quality of life among homeless adults with mental illness and moderate support needs for mental health servi…

  • Améliorer l’accès aux psychothérapies au Québec et au Canada

    Open AccessHelen‐Maria Vasiliadis, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis et al.ARTICLESanté mentale au Québec2015

    Améliorer l’accès aux psychothérapies au Québec et au Canada : réflexions et expériences de pays francophones. Un article de la revue Santé mentale au Québec (Améliorer l’accès aux psychothérapies au Québec et au Canada) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit

  • Les conclusions de la table ronde

    Open AccessDavid K Levine, David Levine et al.ARTICLESanté mentale au Québec2015

  • L’effet de l’âge, du genre et du statut socioéconomique sur l’utilisation des services de médecine générale pour des symptômes de détresse psychologique

    Open AccessMichel Préville, Samantha Gontijo Guerra et al.ARTICLESanté mentale au Québec2014

    Objectifs : L’objectif de cette étude était, premièrement, de documenter les propriétés psychométriques d’une mesure du statut socioéconomique des personnes âgées et, deuxièmement, de documenter l’effet du statut socioéconomique sur l’association entre le besoin ressenti d’améliorer sa santé mentale et l’utilisation des services de médecine générale par les personnes âgées en tenant compte de l’effet de l’âge et du genre. Méthode : Les données ut…