COVID & Mental Health

When COVID-19 struck in 2020, mental health impacts were unknown but urgent. Our COVID and Mental Health project brought together Canadian and UK expertise through partnerships with the Canadian Mental Health Association and Mental Health Foundation UK, delivering timely evidence that shaped pandemic mental health responses across multiple sectors.

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    COVID-19-related stress and positive coping strategies among young adults in Canada and France: A latent class analysis

    This study uses data collected from a large and diverse sample of young adults from Canada and France during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic to respond to the following objectives: 1) identify sub-groups of young adults with a similar coping pattern using latent class analysis; 2) examine whether these coping sub-groups differ by sociodemographic characteristics; and 3) examine the association of sub-group membership and mental health-related outcomes, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics.

    PLOS Mental Health

    2025

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  • Overlapping pandemic- and climate-related worry: Prevalence and association with mental health outcomes in a Canadian sample

    Evidence of the population-level mental health impacts of COVID-19.

    Journal of Mental Health and Climate Change

    2023

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  • Parent psychological distress and parent child relationships two years into the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a Canadian cross-sectional study

    Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have not been felt equally within populations. 

    PLoS One

    2023

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  • Food-related worry and food bank use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: Results from a nationally representative multi-round study

    Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly one in five adults in Canada worried about having enough food to meet their household's needs.

    BMC Public Health

    2023

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