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Research

The following is a list of current/active projects that are ongoing in the Mount Sinai Hospital psychiatry department:

  • Naturalistic Study of Treatment Outcome for Patients with Dissociative Disorders (TOP DD Study)
  • Strengthening the Capacity and Sustainability of Mental Health Research Training and Practice in Ethiopia
  • Resilience and Vulnerability in Gay Communities
  • Measuring Medical Students’ Reflective Capacity and Empathy Levels over Time and Evaluating Student Narratives for Reflective Capacity
  • Narrative Means to Professional Ends: New Strategies for Teaching and Evaluating Professionalism in Canadian Medical Schools
  • Psychological Trauma Program – Quality Assurance Study
  • Improving Healthcare Delivery by Improving Health Providers’ Knowledge of Interpersonal Trauma
  • The Influence of Attachment Insecurity on Patterns of Alcohol Consumption in a Nonclinical Population
  • The Impact of Close Interpersonal Relationships and Social Support on Heart Failure
  • CE to Go: Capacity Building in Under-serviced Communities Through Knowledge Dissemination
  • CE to Go: Capacity Building Through Distance Education in Rural Underserviced Communities
  • An RCT to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Telephone-based Interpersonal Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Postpartum Depression 
  • Enhancing Supervision of Psychotherapy (ESP) Project
  • Scaling Up Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Common Mental Disorders in Ethiopia
  • Addressing the Needs of Unpaid Caregivers – A Collaborative Training Program for Families and Caregivers to Maintain Persons with Dementia in the Community
  • Addressing the Needs of Unpaid Caregivers - A Collaborative Training Program for Families and Caregivers to Maintain Persons with Dementia in the Community: The E-learning Project
  • Emergency Department – Geriatric Mental Health (ED-GMH) Program Evaluation
  • Centralized Access to Specialty Geriatric Mental Health Beds in Toronto
  • Chemotherapy and Mindfulness Relaxation, a Randomized Trial
  • The Impact of a Structured TIME-OUT on Provider-patient Communication: Is Patient Attachment Style a Moderating Variable?
  • SLEAP-SCP: Psychological Distress Disturbed Sleep and Confusion Associated with Two Strategies for Sedation and Pain Relief in the Critically Ill
  • SLEAP-PS: Psychological Morbidity Associated with Two Sedation Strategies in the Critically Ill
  • The Effectiveness of Individualized Inter-professional Care Plans for Heavy Emergency Department Users
  • A Multi-media Informational Tool for Low-Health Literacy Breast Cancer Patients
  • Creating a Collaborative Community Perinatal Psychiatric Outreach Program
  • The Impact of Maternal Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Fetal Wellbeing and Development on Neonatal Health
  • Prevent REcurrence of Depression in Mothers Vulnerable and ExpectaNT with Omega 3 Fatty Acids: The PREVENT Trial
  • Maternal Anxiety Levels During Pregnancy: Are Women With High-Risk Pregnancies More Vulnerable Than Women With Low-Risk Pregnancies?
  • Developing a Psychoeducational Support Group for Serodiscordant Couples: A Collaborative, Participatory Approach
  • Documenting TowelTalk: Developing a Service Provider Manual of Brief, Therapeutic Counseling in a Sexualized Environment
  • Reitman Centre's CARERS Group Training for Caregivers of Family Members with Dementia (Chinese-speaking Groups)
  • Wellness Centre: An Evidence-guided Approach to Delivering Culturally Relevant Community Psychogeriatric Services for Chinese Elders
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