September 15, 2024 Dr. Daniel Vigo joined Premier David Eby and others in announcing plans to expand secure facilities for individuals under the Mental Health Act and to enhance mental health treatment within BC corrections for those with mental health and addiction challenges. Read the announcement by BC Gov News, the related article by Times […] Read More
Read about the results of our randomized control trial of Minder! This publication describes the evaluation of Minder‘s effectiveness in improving mental health, substance use, and mental-wellbeing outcomes. Vereschagin, M., Wang, A. Y., Richardson, C. G., Xie, H., Munthali, R. J., Hudec, K. L., Leung, C., Wojcik, K. D., Munro, L., Halli, P., Kessler, R. […] Read More
Curious as to how Minder was designed and developed? This paper outlines the co-development process our lab used to conceptualize and create Minder. We detail the phases of development from initial to final app design to introduce all the main components of Minder, and highlight the importance of UBC student input in all aspects of […] Read More
Dr. Daniel Vigo and his coauthors analyzed 14 months of UBC student data to identify time trends in suicidal ideation over the first three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. 18.9% of students experienced suicidal ideation in the previous 30 days of survey response, and suicidal ideation was relatively stable over the course of […] Read More
In this publication, Dr. Daniel Vigo and other WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators analyze data from over 35,000 respondents of the WHO World Mental Health Survey to identify determinants of effective treatment coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Results suggest that a majority of individuals reporting 12-month PTSD did not have adequate pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, […] Read More
This new Lancet Psychiatry article critiques the recent Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, and re-estimates the burden of mental, neurological, substance use disorders and suicide. Vigo, Jones, Atun & Thornicroft posit that the GBD study did not capture the disability caused by somatoform and personality disorders, and did not include mortality […] Read More
June 2, 2021 Dr. Daniel Vigo has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mental Health Systems (IJMHS). In his inaugural editorial, Dr. Vigo discusses his plans for the IJMHS to bridge the “knowledge to action” gap by encouraging translational research and implementation science through new areas of focus. “We are at the gates […] Read More