Pascale Vézina-GagnonUniversité de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Psychology
Pascale Vézina-Gagnon
Ph.D.
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University students represent the most affected population regarding major depression disorder (MDD). Following the diatesis-thesis model, the interaction between environmental stress and the presence of preexisting vulnerabilities would explain its development. Besides, researchers studied tolerance for emotional distress (TED) and its influence o...
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The present study aimed to determine whether psychiatric comorbidity (i.e., diagnostic comorbidity in eight categories of mental and behavioral disorders) mediates the relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and diseases of the genitourinary system (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problem...
Purpose:
This matched cohort study aims to determine whether teenagers with a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) are at greater risk of consulting for a pregnancy and related complications than teenagers from the general population. It also aims to compare provoked abortion, live births, and fetal losses of participants who were sexually abus...
Objective:
To compare genitourinary health problems of children and adolescents with a substantiated report of sexual abuse with those of the general pediatric population.
Study design:
Via a prospective matched-cohort design, administrative databases between January 1996 and March 2013 were used to document genitourinary problems of 882 sexuall...
The goal of the current study was to explore the rates of medical consultation and hospitalizations of sexually abused boys. Specifically, to examine if sexually abused boys had higher rates of medical consultations and hospitalizations for physical and mental health problems than boys from the general population. Administrative databases were used...
When compared to children from the general population, sexually abused children receive more medical services, both for physical and mental health problems. However, possible differences between sexually abused boys and girls remain unknown. The lack of control group in studies that find gender differences also prevents from determining if the diff...
Previous research has demonstrated associations between child sexual abuse, anxiety and genito-pelvic pain, but no study to date has examined whether sexual abuse may be associated with genito-pelvic pain through victims’ elevated anxiety. The present study aimed to determine whether anxiety mediates the relationship between child sexual abuse and...
The goal of the study was to explore whether sexually abused boys had higher rates of medical consultations and hospitalizations for physical and mental health problems than boys from the general population. Administrative databases were used to compare medical diagnoses of 222 boys with a substantiated sexual abuse report with those of 222 matched...
This study focuses on the relationship between parental rejection, as a form of psychological abuse, and children's academic success. More specifically, the study aims to determine whether emotion regulation and behaviour problems mediate the relationship between parental rejection and academic sucess. A sample of children (N = 189) was recruited f...
Cette étude visait à déterminer si la régulation émotionnelle et l’empathie de l’enfant revêtent une fonction médiatrice entre le rejet maternel et les comportements de l’enfant. Des données ont été recueillies auprès d’un échantillon de 103 dyades mères-enfants (49 garçons et 54 filles âgés de 6 à 13 ans) recrutées dans trois écoles primaires et i...