A special Asian Heritage Month event: Post-Pandemic Chinese Canadians Forum was held on May 31st. It was an interactive forum for us to share our communities’ wise practices and resilient strategies during the pandemic, and to build collective actions to sustain the community activism and resources going forward. We have uploaded the video presentations of our speakers on…
The qualitative study on how PACER Training intervenes COVID19 Mental Health Stressors among health care providers is published. Congratulations to our PROTECH researchers! Since the pandemic, health care providers, a vital group experiencing high-level stressors, in providing care and public health responses and working with vulnerable populations, are experiencing intersecting stressors at multiple levels. The…
Join us for an informative and interactive panel presentation moderated by Drs Chris Chan and Ken Fung. Panelists will discuss the impact of kidney disease on mental health of patients and family caregivers; treatment options including dialysis and transplantation, the decision to seek or become a living donor and impact on health and wellness, and…
The $2 million Health Canada initiative will help a handful of institutions better support students’ well-being. Demand for mental health services has long outstripped supply at Canadian universities, and COVID-19 has only made matters worse. Research shows that since the pandemic began, disorders related to anxiety and depression have risen across the country, particularly among postsecondary…
Prompts and coping tips may improve mental health for people in minority groups Many people stayed at home to protect themselves from COVID-19 infection, but no one could avoid all of the biological, social, and psychological impacts of the pandemic. People reported disrupted sleep and vivid nightmares. Divorces and breakups significantly increased between 2019 and…
Research credits restrictive, persistent public health measures and successful vaccination campaign Canada handled the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and weathered the ensuing upheaval better than several other nations with comparable health-care and economic infrastructure, a new study suggests. The research, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday, credits Canada’s strong performance to…
Long Covid affects patients physically and mentally, requiring an integrated approach to care. This second article in the series looks at how to support patients’ holistic needs Abstract Emerging understanding of long Covid shows it is a condition affecting both mind and body. Many post-Covid-19 sequelae present as undifferentiated symptoms not apparent on routine investigation,…
Evidence has shown that the COVID pandemic has impacted women’s mental health more significantly than men’s mental health. For example, lockdowns and the stress of home schooling have been found to take a greater toll on working mothers compared with fathers, while women have been more likely to experience increases in loneliness over the past two years. Now, our new…
A province-wide mask mandate that was first introduced in October 2020 has now been lifted in virtually all of the so-called “high-risk” settings where it had remained in place, including on public transit. But just because the mandate is no longer in effect, doesn’t mean that you can throw away your masks. In fact a…
Larissa McKnight wasn’t prepared for the horde as she walked toward work at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, still wearing her mask just after getting off the subway. Ms. McKnight, a 27-year-old marketing manager, had unwittingly headed straight into an anti-masking protest held late last month. Feeling alone in the crowd, she avoided eye contact. Then a…
Much is still unknown about long COVID, but some pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall into place. A systematic review by Canadian researchers identified more than 100 symptoms associated with long COVID. Some of the most common include fatigue, general pain, sleep disturbances, shortness of breath, cognitive impairment, and mental health symptoms. Researchers…
Nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder, according to latest UN data – a staggering figure that is even more worrying, if you consider that it includes around one in seven teenagers. To make matters worse, in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of common conditions such as depression and anxiety, went…