Jacques Roy's scientific contributions

... À la lecture des rares recherches réalisées sur le sujet, nous apprenons que les hommes immigrants n'échappent pas à la tendance selon laquelle les hommes en général utilisent moins les services de santé et les services sociaux que les femmes (Cazale et al., 2013 ;Le Gall et Cassan, 2010). Parmi les raisons de cette sous-utilisation des services, certaines seraient similaires à celles des hommes non-immigrants, dont l'effet de la socialisation masculine sur la demande d'aide (MSSS, 2004 ;Le Gall et Cassan, 2010), l'inadéquation des services à une clientèle masculine (Lajeunesse et al., 2013 ;Dulac, 2001) ainsi que la complexité du système qui génère des obstacles dans l'accès aux services (Tremblay et al., 2016 (Kwak, 2018 ;Lecours et Neill, 2015). Malgré cela, face à des défis liés au recrutement en période pandémique et aussi dans le but de pouvoir procéder à des comparaisons entre les hommes immigrants récents et d'autres plus anciens, l'équipe de recherche a décidé, à partir du 13 avril 2021, d'étendre l'admissibilité à 15 ans de résidence au Québec. ...

... Their working stability, salary, as well as level of freedom and opportunities varies according to their job status. In view of these issues, we hypothesized that mental health disparities exist among male university employees, and as a result: (1) there are gender differences in prevalence rates and determinants of mental health [13], (2) there is an underrepresentation of males in health and mental health research [14][15][16] and (3) males are less likely than females to acknowledge their problems and to seek medical or psychosocial help [17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This study will focus exclusively on males. ...

... In doing so, they adopt various strategies, such as flight, in order to avoid revealing their problem, and wait until they reach the limit of their capacities to withstand hardship, sometimes until the situation becomes critical, before actively seeking help (Banks, 2001; Dulac, 2001; Rondeau, 2004). Moreover, men appear to be particularly susceptible to risk factors associated with psychological distress, such as socioeconomic difficulties, material precariousness, relationship breakdown and celibacy, family difficulties, lack of awareness of social and health services, not having a family physician (Roy et al., 2015), experiences of rejection and repression on the part of health personnel who consider men's behavior to be less compliant with interventions , and having lived in an underprivileged environment (Lacourse, 2005). Thus, more men than women reported low levels of social support, particularly in the 25 to 44 age group (Roy et al., 2015). ...