New COMPASS paper by SSHRC & BrockU Applied Health Sciences Postdoc Dr Kristen Lucibello, PhD with Angela Alberga et al

Results support the importance of reducing & preventing internalized weight bias, with the aim to improve mental health among youth with higher weights

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ij…

Proud, honoured and elated!! Thank you Cdn Public Health Assoc. for the recognition of my work looking at sport participation by gender identity among youth using COMPASS data at the #PH24SP conference this year in Halifax!

Congratulations to UWaterloo School of Public Health Sciences PhD Candidate McKenna Szczepanowski for winning the Dr. John Hastings Student Award at the Cdn Public Health Assoc. conference for her research on sport participation by gender identity among Canadian youth in the COMPASS study!
👏👏👏 #PH24SP

.UWaterloo School of Public Health Sciences PhD Candidate ThepikaaV presented her COMPASS study research with Health Canada and PHAC on substance use in gender diverse youth at the Cdn Public Health Assoc. conference #PH24SP 👏

PhD Candidate Megan Magier presented our work at Cdn Public Health Assoc. in Halifax on inequities in #sleep duration & quality among adolescents in Canada in the COMPASS study #PH24SP

Check it out! CBC covered COMPASS results on student health & wellbeing in PEI:
cbc.ca/news/canada/pr…

Dr Kristen Lucibello, PhD presented her research on restricting or altering eating with the intention to change their weight among adolescents in the COMPASS
Study at the Society for Research on Adolescence conference #SRACHICAGO2024

I enjoyed presenting our @compass_uw research at the Society for Research on Adolescence conference showing that bullying rebounded to exceed pre-pandemic levels when the restrictions were lifted among high school students. For full paper see: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#SRACHICAGO2024

New COMPASS paper by UWaterloo School of Public Health Sciences PhD Student ThepikaaV et al examined substance use by gender identity, & risk & protective factors.

Results support the need to prioritize gender diverse youth in substance use prevention & harm reduction.

doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp…

A big shout out to COMPASS, Kate Battista, Scott Leatherdale, Karen A. Patte for working with us to better understand Ophea’s Healthy Schools Certification program. The findings will help us inform future data analysis and program updates. Appreciative of the partnership!

A new COMPASS Quebec paper examined the evolution of #sleep duration & screen time between 2018 & 2022

Sleep & screen time gradually converged over time.

Adolescents with lower flourishing spent about the same amount sleeping as they did using screens

doi.org/10.1016/j.jado…

New COMPASS paper:

While #bullying declined during remote learning in the early #COVID19 response, rates appear to have rebounded to exceed pre-pandemic levels when restrictions were lifted

Mahmood Gohari Kristen Lucibello, PhD Ann Farrell Scott Leatherdale

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Public Health Agency of Canada launched a new funding opportunity for the School Health Grant for Youth.

Students enrolled in grades 9 to 12, or Secondary 3 to 6 in Quebec, are invited to apply by April 15. ow.ly/B0At50R2m45

#YouthSchoolGrant

New COMPASS paper by BrockU Applied Health Sciences
PhD Candidates Jessica Goddard & Valerie Pagnotta, &
Markus J Duncan Karen A. Patte Scott Leatherdale et al:

Pandemic-related financial worry was associated with greater before to during #COVID19 changes in anxiety in adolescents

doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp…

Our COMPASS Co-PI Karen A. Patte was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Child Health Equity and Inclusion!

Very proud of colleague Karen A. Patte and COMPASS co-PI. Well deserved!

brocku.ca/brock-news/202…

New COMPASS paper:

Changes in breakfast & water consumption among youth: examining the impact of COVID19 in worsening inequity

Markus J Duncan Dr. Negin Riazi Leigh Vanderloo Guy Faulkner Valerie Carson Jean-Philippe Chaput Scott Leatherdale Sarah Carsley Karen A. Patte

doi.org/10.1186/s40795…

New COMPASS paper by Kristen Lucibello, PhD Mahmood Gohari Scott Leatherdale Karen A. Patte:

Factors associated with maladaptive changes in weight control intention in adolescents included:
Bullying, resistance training, emotional dysregulation, & ⬆️social media

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…