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Purpose Few studies evaluate language-group differences in suicide mortality. This study assessed the suicide mortality gap between Francophones and Anglophones of Quebec, Canada according to age, sex, method, region and socioeconomic deprivation. Methods Suicide decedents were extracted from the Quebec death file for 1989–2007 (N = 24,465). Age- and sex-specific suicide mortality rates were calculated for four periods (1989–1993, 1994–1998, 1999–2003, 2004–2007) for Francophones and...
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Mental illness affects about 1 in 5 Canadians during their lifetime but only approximately 30% of people needing help actually access mental health ser vices (Gravel, Connolly & Bédard, 2004). This low access rate is worrisome and may not accurately depict the reality as it is lived out by linguistic minorities. The present study documents both the need for and access to English-lan guage mental health services by the Estrie region’s English-speaking minority. Intending to record their...
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A recent paper by Bialystok et al in Neuropsychologia (vol. 45, pgs. 459 to 464) suggested that early bilingualism produced a statistically significant 4.1-year delay in onset of memory loss symptoms in older individuals with Alzheimer disease, possibly reflecting an increase in the cognitive reserve of these individuals. That study focused on multilingual elderly patients of whom 90% were immigrants. Our memory clinic, in Montreal Canada, has the advantage of having a large set of...
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À la fin des années 1970, le Québec se dote de la Charte de la langue française (Loi 101), qui modifie l’encadrement de la question de la langue de prestation des services de santé et de services sociaux. Parallèlement, de nombreux rapports, comités d’étude et politiques modifient en profondeur les pratiques institutionnelles et communautaires à l’endroit des personnes aux prises avec des problèmes de santé mentale. Depuis ce contexte de grandes transformations, où certaines réponses...
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Considérant qu’un Canadien sur neuf hospitalisé pour maladie mentale retournera à l’urgence moins d’un mois après sa sortie d’hôpital, il importe de documenter, dans une perspective socio-historique, les itinéraires « transinstitutionnels » des personnes souffrant de troubles psychiques. Nous proposons ici une note de recherche sur l’enquête que nous menons sur l’évolution des services de soins de santé mentale des communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire, en particulier,...
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Purpose We aimed to determine whether linguistic group influences reported prevalence rates for a number of common mental disorders. Methods Secondary data analyses of the Canadian Community Health Survey cycle 1.2 (CCHS 1.2) were carried out on representative bilingual French and English, monolingual French and English and other language groups in Canada. Past year prevalence of major depression, anxiety disorders (agoraphobia, social phobia, panic disorder) and alcohol abuse/dependence...
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