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.

  • 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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  • Mental distress and virtual mental health resource use amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a cross-sectional study in Canada

    This paper characterizes levels of mental distress among adults living in Canada amid the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the extent of virtual mental health resource use, including reasons for non-use, among adults with moderate to severe distress.

    Digital Health

    2023

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