Post-traumatic Stress Injuries among Public Safety Personnel – Catalyst Grants
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has funded 22 projects through the Catalyst Grants in Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries (PSTI) among Public Safety Personnel competition. The grants are designed to support research projects focused on understanding, identifying, mitigating and/or preventing PTSI and adverse mental health outcomes among public safety occupations.
Note: The project titles are provided in the language in which they were submitted by the researcher.
| Researcher | Research Institution | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Anderson | Justice Institute of British Columbia (New Westminster, BC) | Development and validation of a mental health screening tool for public safety professionals |
| Alain F. Brunet | Douglas Hospital Research Centre (Québec) | Standard vs. enhanced reconsolidation therapy for public safety personnel: a pilot study |
| Dr. R. Nicholas Carleton | University of Regina | Evaluating critical incident management and peer-support programs for public safety personnel |
| Dr. R. Nicholas Carleton | University of Regina | Pan-Canadian public safety personnel: ongoing knowledge translation and strategic development |
| Nicola Cherry | University of Alberta | Mental ill-health in firefighters deployed to the Fort McMurray fire |
| Steve Geoffrion | Centre de recherche Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal | Psychological first aid for emergency medical technicians to prevent post-traumatic Stress injuries after exposure to a traumatic event: can it work? |
| Dianne L. Groll | Queen's University | Understanding the prevalence of mental health disorders in provincial correctional officers - a national study |
| Stéphane Guay | Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal | A smartphone ecological momentary assessment 'app' for collecting real-time data on post-traumatic stress injuries in firefighters |
| Simon Hatcher | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | Suicide among public safety personnel compared to the general population in Ontario: a case-control study. |
| Ji Hyun Ko | University of Manitoba | Do cognitive behavioral therapy skills classes increase a resiliency-related brain connectivity pattern to post-traumatic stress disorder? |
| Joy C. MacDermid | University of Western Ontario | Cross-jurisdiction and contextual evaluations of mental health resiliency training in firefighters |
| David C. Malloy | University of Regina | Compromised conscience: towards managing moral injuries in public safety personnel |
| Michelle C. McCarron | Saskatchewan Health (Regina) | Research 101 for public safety personnel: Course development and pilot testing |
| Meghan McConnell | University of Ottawa | Unpacking the sociocultural characteristics of operational stress injury among paramedics: a mixed methods approach |
| Margaret McKinnon, | McMaster University | A randomized control trial examining the treatment efficacy of a novel approach to cognitive remediation in public safety personnel with post traumatic stress disorder and co-morbid conditions |
| Sandra Moll | McMaster University | "e-Ami": Co-designing a mobile health approach to PTSI prevention and peer support with Ontario public safety personnel |
| Janine V. Olthuis | University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) | Firefighters accessing care for trauma: a clinical case series testing the efficacy of distance-delivered narrative exposure therapy in reducing PTSD symptoms |
| Rose Ricciardelli | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Understanding the impact of prison work on the mental health of correctional officers employed by Correctional Services Canada: beginning a longitudinal study |
| Rose Ricciardelli | Memorial University of Newfoundland | An interdisciplinary and mixed method analysis of the Correctional Services Canada Academy's 13-week Correctional Personnel Training program: building a 'toolbox' for correctional officer mental health and occupational success by identifying ways to optimize the impact of training for public safety personnel |
| Kathryn E. Sinden | Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario) | Identifying the impact of formal and informal critical incident interventions on firefighters' exposure to post-traumatic stress injury in a Northwestern Ontario fire service |
| Eliana Suarez | Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario) | Mapping resilience pathways and preferences for help-seeking among police forces in the context of post-traumatic stress injuries: A community engaged research project in Ontario |
| Akshya Vasudev | Lawson Health Research Institute (London, Ontario) | The SKIP study: Sudarshan Kriya Yoga In Post-traumatic stress injury (SKIP), an randomized control trial for public safety personnel |
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