Paula Cloutier is a Research Associate in Psychiatric and Mental Health Research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). She received her Masters of Arts in experimental psychology from Carleton University in 1991. Her current research activities focus on pediatric mental health service research, and youth self-harm.
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Research Projects
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Risk of Mental Health Problems in Children and Youth Following Concussion: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
25/12/2021
Among children and youths aged 5 to 18 years, concussion was associated with an increased risk of mental health issues, psychiatric hospitalization, and self-harm compared with children and youths with an orthopedic injury.
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Building Resilience and Attachment in Vulnerable Adolescents (BRAVA): a brief group intervention for adolescents with mild-to-moderate suicidal ideation and their caregivers
08/09/2021
Further studies are required to establish BRAVA’s efficacy in a randomized controlled trial.
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Development of a Clinical Pathway for the Assessment and Management of Suicidality on a Pediatric Psychiatric Unit
24/09/2020
This framework, developed with the aim to standardize care for psychiatrically admitted suicidal children and adolescents, may serve as a flexible template for use in similar settings and could be adapted according to local realities and resources.
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Health outcomes associated with emergency department visits by adolescents for self-harm: a propensity-matched cohort study
06/11/2019
Adolescents with emergency department visits for self-harm have higher rates of mortality, suicide and recurrent self-harm, as well as higher health care costs, than matched controls.
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Self-Inflicted Injury-Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP-SI): a new surveillance tool for detecting self-inflicted injury events in emergency departments
11/10/2018
To assess the performance of the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program’s newly developed self-harm surveillance tool (CHIRPP-SI) designed to improve emergency department (ED) hospital surveillance of youth self-inflicted injury (SI).