Background:Cultural adaptations of digital health innovations are a growing field. However, digital health innovations can increase health inequities. While completing exploratory work for the cultural adaptation of the Ned Clinic virtual survivorship app, we identified structural considerations that provided a space to design digitally connected and collective care.

Objective:This study used a community-based participatory research and user-centered design process to develop a cultural adaptation of the Ned Clinic app while designing to intervene in structural inequities.

Methods:The design process included primary data collection and qualitative analysis to explore and distill design principles, an iterative design phase with a multidisciplinary team, and a final evaluation phase with participants throughout the design process as a form of member checking and validation.

Results:Participants indicated that they found the final adapted prototype to be acceptable, appropriate, and feasible for their use. The changes made to adapt the prototype were not specifically culturally Chinese. Instead, we identified ways to strengthen connections between the survivor and their providers; improve accessibility to resources; and honor participants’ desires for relationality, accountability, and care.

Conclusions:We grounded the use of user-centered design to develop a prototype design that supports the acts of caring through digital technology by identifying and designing to resist structures that create health inequities in the lives of this community of survivors. By designing for collective justice, we can provide accessible, feasible, and relational care with digital health through the application of Indigenous and Black feminist ways of being and knowing.

JMIR Hum Factors 2024;11:e49353

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Background:Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed nonskin cancer for Canadian men and has one of the highest 5-year survival rates, straining systems to provide care. Virtual care can be one way to relieve this strain, but survivors’ care needs and technology use are influenced by intersecting social and cultural structures. Cultural adaptation has been posited as an effective method to tailor existing interventions to better serve racialized communities, including Chinese men. However, cultural adaptations may inadvertently draw attention away from addressing structural inequities.

Objective:This study used qualitative methods to (1) explore the perceptions and experiences of Chinese Canadian PCa survivors with follow-up and virtual care, and (2) identify implications for the cultural adaptation of a PCa follow-up care app, the Ned (no evidence of disease) Clinic.

Methods:An axiology of relational accountability and a relational paradigm underpinned our phenomenologically informed exploratory-descriptive qualitative study design. A community-based participatory approach was used, informed by cultural safety and user-centered design principles, to invite Chinese Canadian PCa survivors and their caregivers to share their stories. Data were inductively analyzed to explore their unmet needs, common experiences, and levels of digital literacy.

Results:Unmet needs and technology preferences were similar to broader trends within the wider community of PCa survivors. However, participants indicated that they felt uncomfortable, unable to, or ignored when expressing their needs. Responses spoke to a sense of isolation and reflected a reliance on culturally informed coping mechanisms, such as “eating bitterness,” and familial assistance to overcome systemic barriers and gaps in care. Moreover, virtual care was viewed as “better than nothing;” it did not change a perceived lack of focus on improving quality of life or care continuity in survivorship care. Systemic changes were identified as likely to be more effective in improving care delivery and well-being rather than the cultural adaptation of Ned for Chinese Canadians. Participants’ desires for care reflected accessibility issues that were not culturally specific to Chinese Canadians.

Conclusions:Chinese Canadian survivors are seeking to strengthen their connections in a health care system that provides privacy and accessibility, protects relationality, and promotes transparency, accountability, and responsibility. Designing “trickle-up” adaptations that address structural inequities and emphasize accessibility, relationality, and privacy may be more effective and efficient at improving care than creating cultural adaptations of interventions.

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e49349

doi:10.2196/49349

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Dans cet article, nous interrogeons les trajectoires du mourir (et d’aide médicale à mourir) de personnes migrantes et non migrantes, décédées à Montréal. En partant d’une recherche récente, nous verrons comment le cycle de vie intervient dans ce mourir. À partir de 119 entretiens menés auprès de proches d’une diversité d’origines ayant accompagné une personne en fin de vie, nous discutons de la « bonne mort » en nous appuyant sur l’analyse des trajectoires du mourir et des éléments qui façonnent la qualité perçue d’une « bonne mort » chez les migrants et non-migrants montréalais, jeunes et moins jeunes. Nous verrons que la valeur différentielle accordée aux groupes d’âge aura une incidence sur les trajectoires du mourir (Strauss, 1992) et, au bout du compte, sur la perception de ce qu’est une bonne ou une mauvaise mort.

La prise en compte de la diversité ethnoculturelle, religieuse et linguistique en contextes éducatifs est reconnue aujourd’hui, au Québec comme ailleurs, comme une condition pouvant soutenir la réussite éducative de tous les élèves. Cette contribution propose de se pencher sur les recherches qui s’inscrivent dans ce domaine en empruntant un point de vue historique et réflexif. Dans un premier temps, nous abordons brièvement différents moments clés du développement du domaine. Ceux-ci nous permettent de mettre en lumière la transformation des objets qui ont préoccupé la communauté de recherche, et d’éclairer les débats sociaux actuels sur les questions de racisme et d’immigration qui mettent en tension ce domaine. En effet, la recherche ne fait pas qu’étudier la diversité, elle participe à sa construction, notamment en la nommant et en (re)définissant les groupes qui la composent, contribuant ainsi à reconnaitre ou non les avancées et obstacles liés à la réussite éducative des élèves de divers groupes sociaux. Ainsi, dans un deuxième temps, cette contribution porte un regard critique sur le domaine en discutant trois enjeux : 1) la façon de nommer la diversité ethnoculturelle religieuse et linguistique; 2) la reconnaissance des dynamiques systémiques; et 3) le contexte sociopolitique actuel et les tensions qu’il engendre. Nous concluons dans un troisième temps avec une réflexion plus personnelle sur l’importance d’expliciter notre positionnalité, de réfléchir à partir de celle-ci et d’adopter une posture apprenante.

Nous présentons ici des pistes théoriques inspirées de quelques auteurs et qui peuvent aider à une compréhension renouvelée des transformations sociales actuelles qui ont une influence certaine sur le «mal-être pluriel » qui traverse nos vies. Ce malêtre prend des formes multiples: dans le monde du travail par les divers types d’épuisement professionnel ou de troubles anxieux résultant de nombreuses pressions à performer; dans le monde éducatif, par la poursuite excessive de l’excellence ; dans la vie courante aussi, par l’appel constant à bien gérer sa vie sans perdre d’occasions et sans faute. Sans explorer directement ces diverses manifestations qui se traduisent ou pas par de l’anxiété liée à cette pression de performance et par d’autres troubles de santé mentale, nous allons plutôt reprendre, une fois encore pouvons-nous dire, une problématique sociétale plus large, en nous concentrant sur les effets de ces transformations sociales qui entrainent une forte limitation du pouvoir d’agir individuel et collectif. Cette limitation est le résultat de ce que nous pourrions appeler des sources renouvelées d’aliénation. C’est sous cet angle indirect en apparence que nous abordons la thématique du «mal-être » : la question du manque de pouvoir d’agir qui représente l’une des sources importantes de ce mal-être plus général.

In the field of forensic psychology, assessing the risk for violence is a core component of treatment planning and intervention monitoring. However, practitioners from the violent extremism (VE) field currently lack guidance on which tools to use when addressing the risk of VE in individuals with mental disorders. This study details challenges associated with risk assessment in a specialized clinic providing services for individuals with mental disorders referred because of concerns about VE, describes an approach to risk assessment for these individuals, and examines its perceived utility for clinicians. A mixed-method concurrent triangulation design was used to combine available quantitative data on the risk assessment of individuals referred to the Montreal Polarization team, obtained through a file review (n = 53), with qualitative data collected through clinical ethnography and a focus group with practitioners who use the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability and Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol–18 tools. Results suggest that risk assessment for patients attracted to VE is complex. Clinicians often combine structured instruments for persons with mental disorders with those for individuals on VE trajectories because they address different dimensions of risk. Disagreement in the level of risk seemed to reflect biases related to the therapeutic alliance and to societal prejudices, and may indicate the need for continuous monitoring. Structured clinical judgment approach tools, while perceived as useful in the VE field, may benefit from better integration with more traditional tools developed for forensic and mental health populations. The limits of cross-sectional data in risk assessment tool validation call for more prospective and longitudinal research in the field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Résumé de l’article Au Québec, des centres d’aide à l’emploi offrent des programmes d’intégration sociale et professionnelle (ISP) des personnes réfugiées ou demandeuses d’asile, qui arrivent avec un parcours souvent sinueux, parfois ponctué d’expériences traumatisantes. Ce parcours peut complexifier leur ISP dans leur société d’accueil et les exposer à des situations de vulnérabilité sociale. Nous cherchons à comprendre comment le parcours d’apprentissage au cours d’un programme d’ISP en groupe permet d’ouvrir l’éventail des opportunités réelles et favorise la justice sociale du point de vue opérationnel de l’approche par les capabilités. L’analyse qualitative processuelle des parcours d’apprentissage de ces personnes articule les ressources que rend disponible le programme en vue d’élargir leurs opportunités réelles d’ISP. Sont également analysées, les entraves à la conversion des ressources transmises en instruments pour l’apprentissage.

En prenant appui sur la mission de l’école québécoise qui consiste à instruire, socialiser et qualifier, le projet PhiloJeunes, implanté au Québec depuis 2015, œuvre au renforcement des facteurs de protection face à la radicalisation violente par la voie de l’implantation d’une pratique philosophique en classe. Le présent article se fonde sur une étude qualitative menée auprès de pédagogues engagés dans ce projet éducatif, afin d’explorer leur expérience lors de la formation et de l’application dudit projet. L’analyse met en lumière les défis et les leviers rencontrés par les pédagogues, notamment en regard d’une certaine prescription/proscription normative quant à l’expression et à la circulation des émotions. L’inévitable imbrication entre la sphère rationnelle et la sphère émotionnelle amène les autrices à soutenir, dans la veine de l’héritage de John Dewey, un dépassement de cette désuète opposition, afin d’embrasser une éducation démocratique sensible qui puisse favoriser la réalisation des objectifs de prévention de la radicalisation violente par la voie de la discussion philosophique en contexte scolaire.

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Background: In Burkina Faso, a security crisis has displaced families within the country, fleeing high-risk areas. One of the major consequences of this displacement is the low use of sexual and reproductive health care and services, and the reduced empowerment of adolescent girls and internally displaced women (IDP). This research aims to analyze the situation and co-develop intervention strategies to strengthen the empowerment of these adolescent girls and IDP women for the use of these services by ensuring the continuity of this care.

Methods: This study is based on a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative). The quantitative component is based on a survey of 1,474 randomly selected households in temporary IDP reception sites in the cities of Kaya and Kongoussi in Burkina Faso. Empowerment was analyzed in terms of motivational autonomy and exercise of choice in family planning. Descriptive analysis and multivariate logistic regression have allowed us to describe the empowerment of IDP women and adolescent girls and identify the determinants of the use of modern contraception among IDP adolescents and women. The qualitative component has enabled to co-construct intervention strategies to strengthen empowerment and also ensure continuity of care, using a participatory approach supported by a deliberative workshop.

Results: Out of a sample of 1,220, adolescent girls (12-19 years old) and women (20-49 years old) represented respectively 17.5% and 82.5%. The analysis showed that 42.5% of IDP adolescent girls and women were using a modern method of contraception at the time of the survey. The analysis also showed that 89.2% and 79.5% of adolescent girls and IDP women have low levels of motivational autonomy and exercise of choice in family planning, respectively. A poor perception of contraceptives side effects and possible difficulties with the partner or even the fear of having difficulties returning to fertility after contraception «  »damage » » women’s motivation to use contraception methods. In addition, the ability to discuss with the partner hinders the exercise of choice in contraception. Intervention strategies based on community dialogue and communication with IDPs and community members have emerged as those promoted to facilitate the use and continuity of health services.

Recommendations: Empowerment appears as a determining factor to enhance the contraceptive demand by adolescent girls and internally displaced women. Community dialogue and communication sessions on family planning for IDPs and the population must be well implemented.

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Funding Declaration: We would like to acknowledge the support of Manon Lapierre, Director of Operations at La Maison Bleue, towards the realisation of this project. Additionally, we recognize the support provided to C.Woronko by the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec Bourses de fin d’études à la maîtrise – 2021-2022. A Cuerrier acknowledges the support provided by the Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University, for the Student Research Support received. L Merry, P Li and A Van Hulst acknowledge the support received through Fonds de la recherche du Québec en santé Research Salary Awards.

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In the wake of the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, there was a strong call to action, first in North America and then globally, to tackle racism and promote racial justice . Many universities created “equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism (EDI-AR)” task forces and other mechanisms with goals of transforming institutions entrenched in histories of colonialism and white supremacy. Concurrently, decolonizing global health movements have been gaining momentum asking all stakeholders including academic institutes to advance equity and dismantle systemic forms of oppression .

Often equity efforts initiated during watershed moments face the challenge of losing team. The crescendos and unavoidable reckoning with every individual’s relationship to structural injustices ultimately dwindle and the status quo in academia continues to instill ingrained systems of discrimination. Deliberate equity building in academia including decolonizing curricula and institutional practices are also highly relevant to addressing structural fault lines in global health governing models, implementation practices and research partnerships . Lessons from failures in Covid-19 pandemic and climate crisis highlight the urgency to better equip students and faculty to lead equity centered approaches.

In this essay, we highlight six key considerations that senior leadership and community at large within high income country (HIC) global health academic institutions need to be mindful to successfully embed equity efforts into the fabric of their foundation. While our experiences as authors stem largely from our engagement in global health academia, the following reflections cut across disciplines.

Background: The number of people living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing worldwide. The prevalence rate of this disease is generally higher in the migrant population compared to the general population. However significant inequalities in the prevalence of T2D are notable between and within migrant populations. Among them, migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, South America and South Asia are more affected than those of European origin. The act of eating and the corporality play an essential role in the development of this disease. Dietary and body norms systems favorable to the prevention and control of type 2 go against what is vital for most of these people, exposing them to conflicts of norms that are difficult to reconcile. 

Objectif: to identify factors that may influence the acceptance or rejection of dietary and body norm systems favorable to the prevention and control of T2D by Sub-Saharan Africa migrants living with T2D. 

Materials and methods: Scoping review according to the steps described by Arksey and O’Malley (2005) will be conducted. An electronic search of studies from 2011 to 2022, published English, Italian, French or in Portuguese will be conducted in eight databases (CINAHL, Cochrane library, Embase, Google Scholar, PsycInfo, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Sciences). The grey literature including publication in Open Grey database and Website of non-governmental organizations working on migrant from Sub-Saharan Africa will be searched. All articles related to body norms, dietary behaviors, or determinants of body behaviors and dietary of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa and those related to factors that influence acceptance or rejection of dietary and body norms systems favorable to the prevention and control of T2D among the migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa living with T2D or at risk to develop this disease will be included. This scoping review will be reported following the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for interventional Trials (SPIRIT) and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. 

Results: The results will focus on factors influencing the acceptance or rejection of dietary and body norms systems favorable to the prevention and control of T2D among the migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa living with T2D or at risk to develop it.

Digital technology offers several opportunities to improve access to professional expertise in primary care, and the offer of various “virtual” services has exploded in the past few years. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of a direct-to-consumer on-line pharmacy consultation service (Ask Your Pharmacist – AYP) to a universal phone consultation service led by the universal public health system in Quebec (811 Info-Santé), through a direct bridge. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with clinician users of the service, and stakeholders involved in this pilot project funded by the Ministry of Economy (n = 22); documents were also analyzed, and content of the question was asked through the AYP service. Adoption of the service was low, and it suggests a poor alignment between the need and the service as implemented. Further research should investigate the mechanisms for an appropriate integration of digital services for primary care universal consultation services.

Case formulation is used in clinical training to weave together theoretical perspectives and support a shared plan of action. Although a cornerstone of clinical practice, critical social theorists have highlighted the risks of depoliticizing political struggles and of reifying and fixing subjects when using psychopathology and case formulation to address situations of injustice. In the field of violent radicalization, this risk is increased by the extreme affects evoked by terror in practitioners and in societies. This article explores the challenges of training clinicians in the field of violent radicalization. It does so by analyzing a Community of Practice (CoP) that was developed to support practitioners involved in this domain of practice in Quebec, Canada. Four focus groups with CoP participants and participant observation of nine CoP meetings were conducted. Thematic and narrative analyses were used to explore the training potential of the CoP and to identify the discursive processes and group dynamics associated with this modality. Results indicate that the diversity of professional perspectives and social positionalities in the group plays a central role in helping participants become aware of their biases and in developing more complex understandings of cases and of their social embedding. Results also suggest that the collective holding of risk is key to preserve practitioners’ investment in patients involved with violent radicalization. The sensitive issue of partnership between health and social services and security agencies is also addressed. Results suggest that CoPs with strong leadership allow for experiential training to enhance clinical and critical thinking.

Accumulation of diverse mutations across the structural and nonstructural genes is leading to rapid evolution of SARS-CoV-2, altering its pathogenicity. We performed whole genome sequencing of 239 SARS-CoV-2 RNA samples collected from both adult and pediatric patients across eastern India (West Bengal), during the second pandemic wave in India (April–May 2021). In addition to several common spike mutations within the Delta variant, a unique constellation of eight co-appearing non-Spike mutations was identified, which revealed a high degree of positive mutual correlation. Our results also demonstrated the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants among unvaccinated pediatric patients. 41.4% of our studied Delta strains harbored this signature set of eight co-appearing non-Spike mutations and phylogenetically out-clustered other Delta sub-lineages like 21J, 21A, or 21I. This is the first report from eastern India that portrayed a landscape of co-appearing mutations in the non-Spike proteins, which might have led to the evolution of a distinct Delta subcluster. Accumulation of such mutations in SARS-CoV-2 may lead to the emergence of “vaccine-evading variants.” Hence, monitoring of such non-Spike mutations will be significant in the formulation of any future vaccines against those SARS-CoV-2 variants that might evade the current vaccine-induced immunity, among both the pediatric and adult populations.

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Purpose

To elicit stakeholder perspectives on the findings from our scoping review on youth participation in mental health policymaking, we conducted a global consultation with young people and adults directly involved in mental health policymaking.

Method

Forty-four stakeholders from 16 countries, including 15 young people, 9 policymakers and 20 facilitators of youth participation, took part in individual interviews and/or focus groups. They were asked about how the review findings contrasted with their own experiences in mental health policymaking. The transcribed data were thematically analyzed.

Results

All participants viewed lived experience as valuable in identifying policy gaps. Youth pointed out that children and youth with disabilities, diverse sexual orientations, and/or gender identities were often excluded, and spoke about feelings of being an “accessory”, illustrating a lack of power-sharing in a tokenized policymaking process. Adult participants’ accounts highlighted the challenges inherent in policymaking such as the need for political knowledge and institutional time constraints. A range of cultural, socio-economic, and political barriers to youth participation, that were often context-specific, were identified.

Conclusions

The diverse perspectives of stakeholders extended the review results. Based on our findings, we recommend that adults and institutions: (1) recognize lived experience as expertise in shaping mental health policies; (2) include diverse groups; (3) reduce tokenistic relationships through the creation of safer spaces, adult feedback, co-production, and social accountability; and (4) adopt an intersectional approach to address cultural, socio-economic, and political barriers to participation. Methodologically, our work demonstrates why stakeholder consultations are an essential component of scoping reviews.

Introduction : Au Burkina Faso, le manque d’études sur les itinéraires thérapeutiques en santé mentale limite la compréhension des obstacles associés au recours aux soins. Comme dans plusieurs pays d’Afrique subsaharienne, cette situation se traduit par une difficulté des systèmes de santé à adapter l’offre de soins disponible à la réalité des personnes souffrant de troubles mentaux.
But de l’étude : Dans cette étude, des observations participantes ont été faites ; sept groupes de discussion et 25 entretiens individuels ont ainsi été organisés afin d’explorer les représentations sociales et l’utilisation des soins existants en santé mentale. Différents acteurs ont été interrogés : patients, soignants, accompagnants et informateurs clés.
Résultats : Une analyse thématique a révélé la présence de trois systèmes de soins dans la ville de Bobo-Dioulasso : 1) les soins psychiatriques associés à une fonction diagnostique et à la prise en charge de pathologies graves ou déclenchées par des causes « naturelles », 2) les soins traditionnels perçus comme ayant une fonction de guérison pour les pathologies « surnaturelles », mais associés à un risque d’escroquerie, et 3) les soins informels prodigués par la famille identifiés comme représentant le pilier des itinéraires thérapeutiques.
Conclusions : Cette étude révèle qu’à travers la diversité des ressources consultées, l’entourage direct représente le principal pourvoyeur de soins et que les contraintes financières constituent l’obstacle principal aux recours aux soins. Ce constat nous amène à formuler des recommandations relatives à l’élaboration d’éventuelles politiques publiques à l’échelle nationale ainsi qu’à l’organisation des services de santé dans la ville de Bobo-Dioulasso.

Keywords: Quality Lessons Learned (QLLs); Quebec; Hospitals’ Resilience; COVID-19 pandemic project

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Ce rapport fait partie de la première étape du projet PREV-IMPACT Canada qui, soutenu par les Fonds pour la résilience communautaire du Centre canadien d’engagement communautaire et de prévention de la violence et Sécurité publique Canada, vise le développement et l’implantation de modèles canadiens d’évaluation des programmes en matière de prévention de l’extrémisme violent (PEV)3 et, ultimement, le renforcement des capacités des personnes intervenantes clés au Canada.

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Work disability stakeholders may not share the same understanding and solutions among themselves or with researchers, causing misunderstandings and hindering collaboration regarding solutions for preventing work disability. To reduce such differences, this study sought to build a common vocabulary among stakeholders and researchers, using a transdisciplinary research framework.

Methods

A consensus method based on a constructivist approach was used. A theoretical sampling method was applied to identify researchers or stakeholders representing one of the four systems in the work disability paradigm. A preliminary set of definitions for key terms was assessed using a Web-based questionnaire. It documented participants’ level of agreement with each term’s inclusion and relevance in the field, and the clarity of the definition, while soliciting suggestions for other terms or clearer definitions. Disagreements were discussed at group meetings, yielding consensus on the final terms and definitions.

Results

Eleven stakeholders representing patients, employers, unions, healthcare professionals, and legislative and insurance systems, along with 10 multidisciplinary researchers, participated. The questionnaire yielded initial consensus on the inclusion and definitions of 49 terms, and 109 suggestions mostly for modified definitions (average = 6 suggestions/term). Two preliminary terms were excluded and three terms were added. Ultimately, 80 terms and their definitions yielded consensus.

Conclusions

The process we used to build a common vocabulary was carried out within a transdisciplinary framework. It required a constructivist approach, promoting idea exchanges among participants and co-construction of generally agreed results. The results were rooted in local contexts, thus ensuring the same reference points, regardless of participants’ different understandings.

Le contexte d’interculturalité est le lieu de rapports complexes. Dans le cadre de l’intervention, comment situer et appréhender la posture de la personne intervenante ? Notre article propose une réflexion sur des méthodes de récits basée sur un cadre conceptuel interculturel et de la sociologie clinique appliqués à l’intervention et à la recherche. Nous aborderons spécifiquement le récit de soi à travers le photolangage© et le récit d’expérience pour donner à voir que les postures professionnelles ne peuvent être comprises dans une linéarité mais plutôt dans la transversalité de positions idéal-typiques et de subjectivités.

Mixed methods research is well-suited to grapple with questions of what counts as valid knowledge across different contexts and perspectives. This article introduces Weight of Evidence as a transformative procedure for stakeholders to interpret, expand on and prioritize evidence from
evidence syntheses, with a focus on engaging populations historically excluded from planning and decision making. This article presents the procedure’s five steps using pilot data on perinatal care of immigrant women in Canada, engaging family physicians and birth companions. Fuzzy cognitive mapping offers an accessible and systematic way to generate priors to update published literature with stakeholder priorities. Weight of Evidence is a transparent procedure to broaden what counts as expertise, contributing to a more comprehensive, context-specific, and
actionable understanding.

Bien qu’il y ait un intérêt grandissant dans la recherche en sciences sociales sur la réalité des personnes migrantes marginalisées, telle que celles appartenant à la population LGBTQ+, on dispose de très peu d’études dans la littérature québécoise sur les meilleures stratégies d’implication des personnes concernées dans la construction des savoirs. Cet article vise à contribuer à la diffusion de la connaissance empirique et autoréflexive sur l’inclusion des personnes LGBTQ+ migrantes dans les espaces de délibération et de co-construction des savoirs. Pour ce faire, plusieurs pistes sont proposées pour dépasser les limites systémiques ainsi que résoudre les défis méthodologiques et éthiques liés à l’inclusion des personnes LGBTQ+ migrantes au sein des espaces de réflexion et de construction des connaissances autour des enjeux qui les concernent directement. D’un point de vue empirique, notre démarche s’appuie sur l’autoreflexivité de différents acteurs et actrices concernés (membres soutenus, membres du conseil d’administration, membres de l’équipe de soutien et employés) dans une recherche communautaire menée en collaboration avec l’organisme communautaire AGIR (Action LGBTQ avec les immigrant.e.s et les réfugié.e.s).

Introduction : Le Québec (Canada) fait face à la COVID-19 comme ailleurs dans le monde. Environ 92 % des décès sont survenus chez des personnes de plus de 70 ans et une centaine de centres d’hébergement de soins de longue durée (CHSLD) ont été contaminés. Cette situation alarmante pousse le réseau de la santé à connaître les répercussions socio-économiques de la COVID-19. À notre connaissance, il n’y a pas d’outil valide et fiable pour mesurer les coûts de gestion de la COVID-19 dans les CHSLD. Objectifs : Le présent protocole vise à : i) adapter et valider pour les CHSLD une grille fusionnée, Cout-COVID19-SLD, issue de 2 grilles développées en soins aigus; ii) mettre à l’essai la grille Cout-COVID19-SLD dans les CHSLD afin d’analyser sa faisabilité, résoudre les obstacles à son administration, et procéder à une estimation partielle des coûts causés par la COVID-19. Méthodes : Une étude prospective en 2 volets sera réalisée. Le premier volet utilisera une approche Delphi auprès de 14 à 17 experts pour valider le contenu de la grille. Le second testera la grille via une étude pilote transversale dans deux CHSLD. Discussion et conclusion : Cette étude permettra d’obtenir une grille validée pour systématiser la mesure des coûts associés à la gestion de la COVID-19 (coûts de mesures préventives et de la maladie) dans les CHSLD. Enfin, cette grille servira comme un instrument valide et fiable pour mieux planifier des recherches futures sur les impacts socio-économiques de la COVID-19 dans les CHSLD.

C’est avec une petite larme au coin de l’oeil que METISS (Migration et Ethnicité dans les Interventions en Santé et en Services sociaux) vous fait ses adieux. Eh oui! Après 28 ans de recherche et de partenariat, l’équipe ferme boutique.

Pour clore cette époque en beauté, nous vous présentons avec beaucoup de fierté une toute dernière publication, les toutes dernières « Entre-vues », qui retracent trois décennies de recherche, d’innovation et de collaboration autour de la thématique de la diversité dans les services sociaux et de santé. Des fondements sur lesquels on peut s’appuyer pour nous propulser vers l’avenir, mais un document à consulter avec un brin de nostalgie tout de même.

This article introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry that presents recent work that deepens our understanding of the refugee experience—from the forces of displacement, through the trajectory of migration, to the challenges of resettlement. Mental health research on refugees and asylum seekers has burgeoned over the past two decades with epidemiological studies, accounts of the lived experience, new conceptual frameworks, and advances in understanding of effective treatment and intervention. However, there are substantial gaps in available research, and important ethical and methodological challenges. These include: the need to adopt decolonizing, participatory methods that amplify refugee voices; the further development of frameworks for studying the broad impacts of forced migration that go beyond posttraumatic stress disorder; and more translational research informed by longitudinal studies of the course of refugee adaptation. Keeping a human rights advocacy perspective front and center will allow researchers to work in collaborative ways with both refugee communities and receiving societies to develop innovative mental health policy and practice to meet the urgent need for a global response to the challenge of forced migration, which is likely to grow dramatically in the coming years as a result of the impacts of climate change.

This commentary aims to provide a glimpse into some of the early and continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our global and public health projects: research in low-resourced settings; research with vulnerable populations, such as asylum seekers, Indigenous communities, children, and mental health service users; and research with healthcare professionals, frontline workers, and health planners. In the early context of restrictions caused by COVID-19, this commentary highlights our research setbacks and challenges, and the ways in which we are adapting research methodologies, while considering ethical implications related to the pandemic and their impacts on conducting global and public health research. As we learn to become increasingly aware of some of our limitations in the face of the pandemic, some positives are also worth highlighting: we are mobilizing our training and research skills to participate in COVID-19 projects and to disseminate knowledge on COVID-19, including through papers such as this one. However, we do acknowledge that these opportunities have not been equitable. Each thematic section of this commentary concludes with key recommendations related to research in the early and continuing context of the COVID-19 pandemic that we believe to be applicable to early- and not-so-early-career researchers working in the global and public health fields.

Le présent ouvrage, en évitant le traditionnel clivage entre méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives, présente 30 devis ou analyses de recherche, dont l’étude de cas, la théorisation ancrée, la revue de littérature systématique, l’essai randomisé, le groupe de discussion focalisée, les analyses multiniveaux, la modélisation par équations structurelles et les approches participatives. Cette nouvelle édition est également enrichie de chapitres portant sur l’examen de la portée, la méta-review des écrits, l’analyse de puissance, l’analyse d’agrégats géographiques, les algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique ou statistique, la modélisation de type Rasch et les enquêtes en ligne.

Ce symposium fut l’occasion de poser un regard
critique sur diverses questions autour du processus de transfert de connaissances, incluant les
notions de valorisation des savoirs, d’innovation
sociale ou technologique, de “meilleures pratiques“,
de gestion ou de mode d’intervention par données
probantes. Les réflexions sur la nature du partenariat entre l’Université, les chercheurs, les établissements et les divers acteurs impliqués dans
l’intervention furent également au cœur de cette
journée

Synthèse sur la thérapie par l’approche centrée sur la personne (ACP), développée par le psychologue humaniste américain, Carl Rogers (1902-1987). Elle propose des clés pour comprendre la relation qui se noue entre un patient et son thérapeute à partir d’exemples concrets.