Mental Health and Peer Support Among Adolescents Living with Disability or Chronic Illness in Canada and France

Two students will be involved in this project each visiting the other’s country and undertaking collaborative research in a Public Health setting. We are requesting funds to cover the costs for the Canadian student to travel to France, costs for the French student will be covered from elsewhere. The students will join national level research teams already established as part of the World Health Organization supported Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study. We are interested in exploring mental health and peer support for early adolescents (aged 10-16 years) living with and without disability or chronic illness in Canada and France. These two countries identify “disability status”” in different ways which is also interesting from a measurement perspective. Students will undertake statistical analysis using HBSC data from both countries under the guidance of the identified supervisors. The French student will be situated at Queen’s University and will work with Canadian data. The Canadian student (funded through MITACS) will be at the École des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique and will work with French HBSC data. This study will help inform HBSC international teams from across 50 countries who make decisions about HBSC survey items every four years.”

Faculty Supervisor:

Colleen Davison

Student:

Partner:

Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

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