Director:

• Prof. Simon Larose

Objectives:

• Describe the adaptation trajectories that emerge naturally in higher education students during a pandemic, considering their possible heterogeneity;
• Document their experience of the migration of teaching and services during the pandemic (presence vs. distance);
• Identify student sub-populations at risk of experiencing “aggravating” trajectories;
• Develop prediction models that will make it possible, based on personal and academic factors, to explain the resilience and vulnerability of students, and in particular that of SHS.
• Understand the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the current and future transitions of the university student community, academic success and perseverance at the university and on the academic, professional and personal transitions that will follow.

Directors:

• Dr. Nicholas Chadi
• Dre. Marie-Claude Geoffroy

Objectives :

• Monitor scientific studies on pandemic and post-pandemic and mental health in adolescents and young adults;
• Document the consequences of the pandemic on mental health in children, adolescents and young adults in terms of symptoms and use of services and identify risk and protective factors;
• Make recommendations to improve the mental health of young people, following the lessons learned during the pandemic;
• Propose science-based strategies for promoting mental health, for example contact with nature and mindfulness;
• Engage in knowledge transfer.

Directors:

• Prof. Kate Zinszer
• Prof. Benoit Massé

Objectives:

• Estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and staff by age groups and according to different neighborhoods of Montreal;
• Estimate the risk of SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion in children in Montreal from the start to the end of the school year;
• Estimate the prevalence of difficulties related to the emotional and mental health of children and staff in different neighborhoods of Montreal.

Director:

• Prof. Lise Gauvin

Objectives:

• Monitor lifestyle habits to understand the long-term effects – Examine in connection with traditional indicators and new indicators of inequality;
• Match monitoring data with data on the living environments of young people – Examine the co-benefits: lifestyle habits and academic performance + physical and mental health.

Director :

Prof. Maripier Isabelle