Browsing École de santé publique by Author "O'Loughlin, Jennifer"
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The change in exergaming from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic among young adults : longitudinal study
O’Loughlin, Erin K.; Sabiston, Catherine M.; O'Rourke, Roxy H.; Bélanger, Mathieu; Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; O'Loughlin, Jennifer (JMIR Publications, 2023-05-22)Background: Exergaming may be an important option to support an active lifestyle, especially during pandemics. Objective: Our objectives were (1) to explore whether change in exergaming status (stopped, started or sustained exergaming, or never ... -
Discrete time measures versus trajectories of drinking frequency across adolescence as predictors of binge drinking in young adulthood : a longitudinal investigation
Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; Wellman, Robert J.; Ahun, Marilyn N.; Datta, Geetanjali; Jutras-Aswad, Didier; O'Loughlin, Jennifer (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-09-23)Objectives We compared discrete time measures with trajectories of adolescent drinking frequency as predictors of sustained binge drinking in young adulthood. Design Prospective longitudinal study. Setting 10 high schools in Montréal, Canada. Participants ... -
Five-year predictors of physical activity decline among adults in low-income communities: a prospective study
Weiss, Deborah; O'Loughlin, Jennifer; Platt, Robert; Paradis, Gilles (2007)BACKGROUND:Obesity in North America is now endemic, and increased understanding of the determinants of physical inactivity is critical. This analysis identified predictors of declines in physical activity over 5 years among adults in low-income, ... -
A prognostic tool to identify youth at risk of at least weekly cannabis use
Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; De Montigny, Simon; Boulanger, Laurence; Goulet, Danick; Doré, Isabelle; O'Loughlin, Jennifer; Haddad, Slim; Bélanger, Richard E.; Leatherdale, Scott (Springer, 2022-03-09)We developed and validated an 8-item prognostic tool to identify youth at risk of initiating frequent (i.e., at least weekly) cannabis use in the next year. The tool, which aims to identify youth who would benefit most from clinician intervention, ... -
Revisiting trajectories of BMI in youth : an in‐depth analysis of differences between BMI and other adiposity measures
Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; Ahun, Marilyn N.; O'Loughlin, Jennifer (Wiley, 2021-06-16)Objective Body mass index (BMI) is used to identify trajectories of adiposity in youth, but it does not distinguish fat- from fat-free-mass. There are other inexpensive measures of adiposity which might better capture fat-mass in youth The objective ...