Louise Nadeau

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Psychology

A common public health initiative in many jurisdictions is provision of advice to people to limit gambling to reduce the risk of gambling-related harm. The purpose of this study is to use consistent methodology with existing population-based prevalence surveys of gambling and related harms from different countries to identify quantitative limits fo...

Consequences experienced by the partners of individuals with a gambling disorder are well documented. However, little is known about the deleterious effects experienced by other people than partners of gamblers. A better understanding of these consequences could help improve clinical practices. The goal of this paper is to compare the consequences...

Until now, there has been no evidence-based, specific advice for people who gamble who want to reduce their risk of experiencing gambling harms. This paper presents the results from the first large-scale, comprehensive, international project to develop lower-risk gambling guidelines. Specifically, we calculated relative risk estimates to determine...

Le trouble lié au jeu d’argent (TJA) a d’importantes répercussions dans la vie de l’individu qui en souffre, mais aussi dans celle des membres de son entourage, dont spécifiquement au niveau conjugal. En raison de leur nature complexe, les impacts vécus par les conjoints ont été le plus souvent explorés à partir d’observations cliniques tenant comp...

Objectifs : L’évaluation de l’utilisation pathologique d’Internet (UPI) repose essentiellement sur des questionnaires autorapportés, sans égard à l’ensemble des points de vue possibles. Cette recherche vise à documenter différentes sources d’information pour évaluer la présence d’une UPI. L’étude compare la perception de jeunes en traitement pour u...

Background and Aims Few meta‐analyses have been conducted to pool the most constant risk factors for problem gambling. The present meta‐analysis summarizes effect sizes of the most frequently assessed problem gambling risk factors, ranks them according to effect size strength, and identifies any differences in effects across genders. Method A ra...

There is limited research exploring the perceptions of people who gamble on the self-control strategies used to limit their gambling. This qualitative study examines self-control strategies used to limit money spent gambling, frequency of gambling, and time spent gambling. A total of 56 people who gamble (27 males and 29 females) participated in ni...

There is little research on the control strategies used by the general public to self-manage gambling habits and avoid harmful consequences. The current study sought to identify the most common self-control strategies of people who gamble regularly, the characteristics of those who use them, and assess the effectiveness of limit-setting strategies...

Despite the popularity in poker-related activities in recent years, few studies have focused on the evolution of gambling habits of poker players over a long period of time. The aim of this study is to examine factors influencing trajectories of poker players. The results are based on data collected at a four-time measurement of a prospective cohor...

Online poker is considered more at-risk than land-based poker in terms of intense gambling behaviors and gambling problems. The development of many online gambling sites has raised public health concerns about the potential increase in online poker players. Longitudinal studies are useful to better understand the evolution of gambling behaviors; ho...

Background With driving while impaired by alcohol (DWI) representing a persistent burden on global health, better understanding and prevention of recidivism following a first-time DWI conviction are needed. Progress towards these goals is challenged by the marked heterogeneity in offender characteristics and a traffic safety literature that relies...

This chapter summarises the report of the Working Group on Online Gambling, Québec, Canada. The method chosen to analyse the social impact of the development of online games and the measures to counter illegal gambling was 1) an extensive monitoring system to provide continuous and systematic data collection and 2) national and international consul...

Objectives: This study highlights the clinical profile of adolescents having consulted with an addiction treatment center (ATC) in Québec for a problematic internet use (PIU) to develop knowledge about these specific clients and precisely target their needs relative to treatment. Method: The study was conducted with 80 adolescents between ages 1...

OBJECTIVES: In a pilot randomised controlled trial of contingency management (CM) and transdermal alcohol monitoring (TAM) with driving while impaired by alcohol (DWI) offenders, perceptions regarding the acceptability of a TAM device, recruitment issues, and the impact of CM and TAM on alcohol use over a six-week period were evaluated. The results...

Background: In many jurisdictions, a risk assessment following a first driving while impaired (DWI) offence is used to guide administrative decision making regarding driver relicensing. Decision error in this process has important consequences for public security on one hand, and the social and economic well being of drivers on the other. Decision...

Background We previously reported that in traffic offenders aged 19–39 years, different risky driving profiles were associated with unique personality, cognitive, and neurobiological characteristics. However, many of these characteristics evolve significantly with age. Secondary analysis on these data explored whether the characteristics associated...

Few empirical studies have examined the relationships between differing regulatory approaches and patterns of gambling behaviors. This article reports on a correlational cross-cultural comparison of differences in the regulatory approaches and gambling behavior among general adult populations in France and Québec, Canada. We drew data from two larg...

Several studies have shown that gambling problems are cyclical but few have empirically investigated factors that are associated with change. The purpose of this article is to prospectively examine associations between life events and problem gambling severity in a cohort of gamblers. Occurrence of life events and gambling problem severity were ass...

Moderate-risk and problem gamblers represent 1.4% and 0.4% of the Québec population, respectively. Research on gamblers’ trajectories has been hampered by methodological shortcomings leading to heterogeneous results. The present research was conducted in the Province of Québec with a representative sample of adult gamblers and aims to explore how g...

Some sex differences have been detected in driving while impaired by alcohol (DWI) offenders. However, understanding of the key factors contributing to DWI among male and female drivers remains elusive, limiting development of targeted interventions. Sex-based neurocognitive analyses could provide the much-needed insight. We examined whether male D...

In many jurisdictions, drivers convicted for the first-time of driving while impaired by alcohol undertake a risk assessment that will determine the severity of sanctions and the remedial measures they must follow as requisites for re-licensing. There is uncertainty inherent in the assessment of risk for recidivism, however, many offenders feel unf...

Objective: Driving while impaired by alcohol (DWI) is a significant yet preventable public health problem. The overrepresentation of males among DWI offenders has been attributed in part to greater sensation seeking and impulsivity features in males, although recent evidence points to increasing female DWI events. Studies exploring sex differences...

Background and aims: In an effort to provide further empirical evidence of meaningful differences, this study explores, in a student population, the distinctions in gambling behavioral patterns and specific associated problems of two levels of gambling severity by comparing problem gamblers (PG) and moderate-risk gamblers (MR) as defined by the sc...

Cet article vise d’abord à dresser un portrait global de la prévalence et les déterminants de la consommation des substances psychoactives (SPA) et du jeu de hasard et d’argent (JHA) de façon globale, avec une concentration sur le Québec. Puis, il présente l’utilisation des services pour ces deux fléaux et les facteurs associés à l’utilisation des...

To describe gambling practices and trends in Quebec between 2009 and 2012 given that, in Canada, public funding allocation to address the risks associated with gambling practices should be based on valid prevalence data and knowledge of patterns and trends in vulnerable populations. The study data were taken from the 2009 and 2012 cross-sectional w...

This study compares the relationship between drinking profiles and self-rated health with and without adjusting for other determinants of health among a sample of older adults from the general population. Respondents were 1,494 men and 2,176 women aged between 55 and 74 from the GENACIS Canadian survey. The dependent variable was self-rated health,...

À ce jour, il n’existe aucun consensus quant aux critères diagnostiques d’une dépendance à Internet (Hinic, 2011 ; Tonioni et al. , 2012 ; Weinstein et Lejoyeux, 2010). Pourtant, des personnes s’autodéclarent cyberdépendantes et réclament des soins dans les centres de réadaptation en dépendance (CRD) au Québec. Ces admissions ont amené l’Agence de...

To date, there is no consensus on the diagnostic criteria for Internet addiction (Hinic, 2011; Tonioni & coll., 2012; Weinstein & Lejoyeux, 2010). Nonetheless, some people consider themselves cyberdependent and request treatment services in the addiction rehabilitation centers (ARC) of the province of Quebec. These admissions have led the Health an...

In the treatment of addictions, the contribution of psychosocial practitioners in an interdisciplinary team is significant. Effective public health interventions have been led by concerted health professionals. Screening for potentially addictive practices is necessary not only in emergency rooms and in the offices of general practitioners but also...

This is a five-year project funded by the concerted actions program « Les jeux de hasard et d’argent au Québec : Portrait des joueurs adultes et prévalence des problèmes associés » of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQ-SC). The study main objective was to generate prevalence data on gambling behaviours and associated problem...

This study aims to describe online poker gambling patterns and associated problems in a representative sample of university students. The study sample consisted of 366 past-year online and offline poker gamblers and was drawn from a larger survey sample of full-time undergraduate students (N52,139) randomly selected across four university campuses...

Adaptatée de la douzième édition de Personality: Theory and Research, publiée en 2013, cette nouvelle édition présente une refonte complète du texte original. Le lecteur y trouvera les théories de la personnalité les plus importantes ainsi que des recherches récentes, notamment en neurosciences, qui viennent soutenir ou relativiser les textes fonda...

RÉSUMÉ Cette étude compare la consommation d’alcool des Canadiens âgés de 55 ans et plus entre les années 1990 et 2000 et vérifie si les différences persistent lorsque la composition sociodémographique des échantillons est prise en compte. Les analyses incluent des sous-échantillons de répondants âgés de 55 à 74 ans provenant des enquêtes CADS de 1...

Homeless individuals undergoing treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) can pose clinical challenges. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms have been observed in the most difficult clients. The study sample consisted of 51 homeless individuals, 9 women and 42 men, undergoing consultation for SUD in Montreal. The mean age was 46 years (S...

Studies on the effectiveness of the psychotherapy or how science answers an intimate question This paper deals with studies on treatment effectiveness for mental health problems. These evaluative studies were conducted in a climate of controversy because of contradictory theories and models explaining personality and mental disorders. Therapy is ef...

Objectives: Impaired decision making is seen in several problem behaviours including alcoholism and problem gambling. Decision-making style may contribute to driving while impaired with alcohol (DWI) in some offenders as well. The Somatic Marker Framework theorizes that decision making is the product of two interacting affective neural systems, an...

Internet addiction: and if we had to make a Descartes of ourselves ? The emergence of dependencies without substance has brought profound transformations in the concept of addiction, both in the research field and in clinical practice. The widespread use of the Internet has led to a reflection on a renewed, integrated conceptualization of addiction...

To characterize and compare sociodemographic profiles, game-play patterns, and level of addictive behaviors among adults who gamble online and those who do not, and to examine if, at the population level, online gambling is associated with more risky behaviors than offline gambling. Respondents were 8,456 offline gamblers and 111 online gamblers wh...

This research used a qualitative methodology and was conducted on a sample of 22 participants with concomitant substance-related and mental health disorders. Today, dual diagnosis patients represent the standard rather than the exception. Our objectives were to consider the elements and processes of the social network to explain variations in consu...

The aim of this study was to assess whether the effect of parenthood on alcohol intake varies according to the context in which the drinking act occurs. The data were drawn from the Canadian Addiction Survey, a national telephone survey conducted in 2004. The analytical sample included 1,079 drinking occasions nested in 498 female drinkers and 926...

Objectif : L’objectif de cette etude est d’evaluer si les stresseurs du conflit travail-famille moderent l’association entre la parentalite et la consommation d’alcool parmi les adultes canadiens en emploi. Methode : En s’appuyant sur le pendant canadien de l’etude GENACIS internationale (GENder Alcohol and Culture: an International Study), l’echan...

Unlabelled: A first driving while impaired by alcohol (DWI) conviction is a key opportunity to identify offenders who are at high risk for recidivism. Detection of alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major target of current DWI assessments. However, offenders frequently underreport their alcohol consumption, and use of biomarkers has been proposed as...

Driving while impaired by alcohol (DWI) is responsible for substantial mortality and injury. Significant gaps in our understanding of DWI re-offending, or recidivism, reduce our ability to practically assess recidivism probability and to match interventions to individual risk profiles. These shortcomings reflect the baffling heterogeneity in the DW...

This article hypothesizes that the gender division in the drinking practices of men and women finds its origin in the nineteenth century. Very few historians have studied Canadian drinking patterns prior to the Temperance movement, which commenced in Canada at the end of the the 1820s. Evidence of a possible double standard concerning female intoxi...

Heavy drinking is a composite phenomenon being operationalized in various and at times misleading ways. With the ultimate goal of comparing the magnitude of the association between the studied patterns of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems as they apply to public health policy, this project involved the comparison of two criteria used to d...

Computerized ambulatory monitoring overcomes a number of methodological and conceptual challenges to studying mental disorders, however concerns persist regarding the feasibility of this approach with severe psychiatric samples and the potential of intensive monitoring to influence data quality. This multi-site investigation evaluates these issues...

Cet article fait le bilan de six recherches evaluatives menees par une equipe de chercheurs du RISQ (Recherche et intervention sur les substances psychoactives – Quebec) sur les traitements offerts au Quebec, principalement dans les centres de readaptation publics, entre 1991 et 2005. Objectifs. Ces etudes avaient pour but d’evaluer : 1) si les par...

Cet article poursuit le double objectif d’une recension des écrits et d’une mise à jour de la documentation sur le thème de la rémission sans traitement des personnes souffrant d’une consommation problématique d’alcool. Il est établi à partir d’une sélection de 26 publications parmi les 95 références recensées. Longtemps considérée comme un phénomè...

To examine the feasibility and validity of computerized ambulatory monitoring in drug-dependent women. 61 women recruited from public substance abuse treatment centers in Montreal, Canada participated in the current study, 84% of whom reported past 30-day polysubstance use. Mood states, craving, and drug use were assessed by standard clinical instr...

As in many jurisdictions, individuals convicted of driving under the influence (DUI) in the province of Quebec are mandated to relicensing programs, which include obligatory participation in intervention programs. However, prolonged delay in relicensing is widespread, potentially contributing to unlicensed driving, untreated substance misuse proble...

This article pursues the double goal of a review of the literature and of an update of the documentation on remission without treatment for individuals with dual diagnosis disorders. It has been elaborated from a selection of 26 publications among the 95 selected listed references. The difficulties in the responsibility of taking charge of patients...

Individuals who drive under the influence (DUI) of alcohol may be at greater risk for neurocognitive impairment because of their exposure to multiple sources of neurological risk. This could contribute to the persistence of DUI behaviour and influence the effectiveness of remedial interventions. The objectives of this study were to clarify the neur...

Cette étude est un suivi rétrospectif sur cinq ans qui examine les variations dans la consommation de substances psychoactives et les déterminants de ces variations. Il s’agit d’une recherche exploratoire auprès d’un sous-échantillon de 22 participants, sélectionnés à partir d’un échantillon initial de 197 patients, présentant à la fois des problèm...

This paper is a retrospective study with a five year follow-up which examines the variations in substance use and the determinants of these variations. This exploratory research studied a sub-sample of 22 participants, selected from an initial sample of 197 patients with concurrent substance use and other mental health disorders. At the quantitativ...

Résumé Cette étude dresse un profil épidémiologique de la prévalence du tabagisme et de sa relation à l’usage et à l’usage épisodique excessif d’alcool dans la population canadienne et dans quelques sous-groupes de cette population. Nous avons analysé des données de l’Enquête sur la santé dans les collectivités canadiennes – cycle 2.1 (ESCC, 2003),...

Résumé Dans cette étude pilote contrôlée et randomisée (N = 51), nous avons examiné l’impact d’une intervention brève, l’entretien motivationnel (EM, Motivational Interviewing ), comparée à une simple séance d’information comme condition contrôle, chez des personnes condamnées pour conduite avec facultés affaiblies. Les participants devaient avoir...

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Résumé Des femmes présentant des problèmes graves d’inadaptation sociale concomitants à des troubles liés aux substances ont été interviewées de 5 à 8 ans après un traitement de référence. Au cours de ces entretiens, des mesures quantitatives ont été recueillies. Objectifs . Cette recherche vise à : 1) décrire, au cours de l’histoire de vie, l’init...

Résumé La toxicomanie et la prostitution chez les femmes constituent une double problématique fort complexe et préoccupante. Ces femmes sont davantage à risque d’être victimes de violence ainsi que d’être infectées par le VIH ou par une autre infection transmissible sexuellement et par le sang. Alors qu’elles tendent à se retrouver régulièrement da...

This study aimed to examine whether variations among regions in Quebec existed after we controlled for individual characteristics in the prevalence of 1) alcohol, cannabis, and gambling behaviours and 2) substance-related disorders and pathological gambling. Using data derived from the Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental Health and Well-Being...

Objectives: This study aimed to examine whether variations among regions in Quebec existed after we controlled for individual characteristics in the prevalence of 1) alcohol, cannabis, and gambling behaviours and 2) substance-related disorders and pathological gambling. Methods: Using data derived from the Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental H...

To examine the relationship between salivary cortisol and frequency of past driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) convictions. A total of 104 males with previous DUI convictions (from one to eight) and mean age of 44.7 years were assessed on measures characterizing repeat DUI offenders, including sociodemographic information, alcohol use beh...

Résumé Tout au long de 2001, une équipe de chercheurs et de cliniciens, soutenus par Santé Canada, ont développé des lignes directrices pour les meilleures pratiques relatives aux troubles concomitants de santé mentale et d’alcoolisme et de toxicomanie. Cet article décrit tout d’abord l’importance des meilleures pratiques pour Santé Canada pour ens...

During the course of 2001, a team of researchers and clinicians supported by Health Canada developed guidelines for best practices related to concurrent mental health and substance abuse disorders. This article first describes the importance of best practices for Health Canada followed by a description of the processes of research as well as consul...

The goal of this study was to determine which variables distinguish resilient victims from drug-addicted victims, who were sexually abused during their childhood--in addition, to measure the contribution of these variables to the level of distress experienced by the victims. There were two groups of 20 women interviewed. The resilient group showed...