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Fall 2023
The transition to motherhood carries significant challenges. Teen mothers, in particular, are disproportionately impacted by mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression, compounded by criticism, judgement, and stereotyping from others in the community. If not addressed, mental health...
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Fall 2020
Cryptographic (crypto) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play an important role in application security; unfortunately crypto APIs are difficult to use, which may lead to security vulnerabilities. Prior work have looked at detecting and fixing crypto APIs misuses at development time and...
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Children and Youth Mental Health: The Role of a Collaborative, School-Based Wraparound Support Intervention in Fostering Mental Health
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There is an increased recognition that early mental health interventions are needed in response to a growing mental health crisis among children and youth. Schools are promising sites for early intervention because they have existing infrastructure for accessing and engaging with students....
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Contribution of the Big 5 personality traits to the mental health of Canadian adults and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic was first detected in China in December 2019 and spread to other countries quickly. Many studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected mental health. Individual differences such as personality could influence people’s responses to the...
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Fall 2014
Randomized controlled trials for a rare disease face methodological difficulties in evaluating treatment effects due to characteristics of rare diseases such as a small patient population to recruit from, lack of knowledge about the disease itself (i.e., lack of clinically validated endpoints),...
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Fall 2012
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures the dynamic activity of each voxel of a brain. This dissertation addresses the challenge of learning a diagnostic classifier that uses a subject’s fMRI data to distinguish subjects with neuropsychiatric disorders from healthy controls. fMRI...
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Fall 2021
The overall purpose of this dissertation was to explore flourishing among Canadian university student-athletes and coaches. This was addressed via three studies. The purpose of the first study was to investigate mental health protective and risk factors among flourishing Canadian university...
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Getting Off the Couch: Psychotherapists Who Have Incorporated Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Into Their Practice
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Twenty percent of Canadians are affected by mental illness (Mental Health Commission of Canada, 2011). Mental illness can be positively impacted by Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLCs). TLCs include such things as exercise, diet, recreation, sleep, sunlight exposure, interpersonal relationships,...
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Spring 2023
Background: Unhealthy diet is a well-established risk factor for developing many physical health conditions in adolescents (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes). Evidence begins to emerge that unhealthy diet might also be implicated in the development of common mental disorders. While there is a...