Mental Health and Well-Being During the Doctorate in Psychology: The Role of Self-Care Behaviors & Attitudes and of Self-Compassion

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ELIGIBILITY AND CONSENT FORM

To verify that you are eligible to participate in the project in title and learn more about it, please respond to the questions below.

Are you enrolled in a doctoral program in psychology in Canada that could allow you to become a psychologist?

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In which province are you studying?

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University of Alberta - Edmonton
• Ph.D. in School and Clinical Child Psychology (SCCP)
• Ph.D in Counselling Psychology

University of Calgary
• Ph.D. in Clinical psychology
• Ph.D in Counselling Psychology
• Ph.D in School and Applied Child Psychology

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver
• Ph.D. in Clinical psychology
• Ph.D in Counselling Psychology
• Ph.D in School and Applied Child Psychology

Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Burnaby: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

University of Victoria (UVic): Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

University of Regina: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

University of Manitoba - Winnipeg
• Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
• Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology

Lakehead University - Thunder Bay: Ph.D in Clinical Psychology

McMaster University - Hamilton: Ph.D in Psychology (Research and Clinical Training stream)

OISE University of Toronto
• Ph.D. in Counselling and Clinical Psychology (CCP)
• Ph.D in School and Clinical Child Psychology (SCCP)

Queen's University - Kingston: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson University): Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

University of Guelph: Ph.D in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (CCAP)

University of Ottawa: Doctorate in Philosophy Psychology (clinical PhD program)

University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC): Ph.D in Clinical Psychology

University of Waterloo: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

University of Windsor: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

Western University - London
• Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
• Ph.D. in the Field of School and Applied Child Psychology

York University - Toronto
• Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (including Clinical Neuropsychology Stream)
• Ph.D. in Clinical Developmental Psychology

Concordia University - Montréal: Ph.D. in psychology (Clinical Profile)

McGill University - Montréal

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology
Ph.D. in School-Applied Child Psychology

Université de Montréal

Doctorat en psychologie - Recherche et intervention (Ph.D. R/I)
Doctorat en psychologie (D.Psy.)
Doctorat en Neuropsychologie clinique (D.Psy.)

Université de Sherbrooke

Doctorat en recherche et intervention en psychologie (Ph.D. R/I)
Doctorat en psychologie (D.Ps.)

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC): Doctorat en psychologie clinique et neuropsychologie (D.Ps.)

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Doctorat en psychologie - Profil professionnel (D.Psy.)
Doctorat en psychologie - Profil scientifique-professionnel (Ph.D. R/I)

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière (UQTR)

Doctorat en psychologie - Profil intervention (D.Ps.)
Doctorat en psychologie - Profil intervention/recherche (Ph.D.)

Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) - Gatineau: Doctorat en psychologie (D.Psy.)

Université Laval - Québec City

Doctorat en psychologie - recherche et intervention (Ph.D.)
Doctorat en psychologie (D.Psy.)

University of New Brunswick - Fredericton: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

Université de Moncton : Doctorat professionnel en psychologie (D.Psy.)

Dalhousie University - Halifax: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

University of Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown: Doctor of psychology (Psy.D.)

Memorial University of Newfoundland - St. John's: Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.)

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Please indicate below the name of your program and university, as well as your email address. If your program is recognized by the Canadian Psychological Association or by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec, an email will be sent to you to confirm your eligibility to participate in the project, with a link to participate.

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You are eligible and invited to participate in the research project "Mental Health and Well-Being During the Doctorate in Psychology: The Role of Self-Care Behaviors & Attitudes and of Self-Compassion". This research is part of Gregory Fortin-Vidah's doctoral project, directed by Olivier Laverdière of the Université de Sherbrooke's Psychology Department.

The objectives of this research project are: (1) to establish a portrait of the mental health, self-care attitudes and behaviours, and level of self-compassion of Canadian doctoral students in psychology; (2) to assess the evolution of these variables over a 12-month period and understand the factors influencing their changes; and (3) to find a suitable model to explain the relationships between the variables, in order to help identify the most strategic intervention targets.

Your participation in this project consists of answering an online questionnaire taking about 20 minutes by April 30, 2024. If you would like, you can also choose to participate further by completing three additional questionnaires, each taking about 15 minutes, between September 2024 and January 2025, and a final questionnaire in March 2025, taking about 20 minutes. In these questionnaires, you will have the option of saving your answers to continue the questionnaire later.

Besides questions about your socio-demographic and doctoral program characteristics, the other questions are about your mental health, self-care attitudes and behaviours, self-compassion, your main activities and the concerns you may have. Your participation in this research project will contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge on these topics, which could in turn help develop and implement interventions to benefit the mental health of doctoral students in psychology. Your participation may also help you become aware of aspects of your mental health and other study variables that are going well and/or could be improved, and motivate you to consider certain adjustments, if necessary.

A portion of the participants may experience negative affect and possibly distress when answering one or more of the mental health questionnaires. The research team considers the possible risks to be minimal, but should the need arise, participants can consult the resources listed at the bottom of this page. The only disadvantage of participating in the project is the time required to complete the questionnaires. No financial compensation is provided.

Your answers will remain strictly confidential. The data collected will be password-protected and only members of the research team will have access to it. Raw data will be stored on the Université Laval servers associated with its RedCap platform. Exported data and other documents will be stored on the OneDrive storage space of the principal investigator's Université de Sherbrooke Microsoft account. Information on the security measures of the online data collection provider can be found at https://doc.s3.valeria.science/fr/faq/faq.html#comment-la-securite-et-la-protection-des-donnees-sont-elles-assurees. Research data may be published or discussed scientifically. The data collected will be stored for seven years and then destroyed.

Your participation in this research is voluntary. You are therefore free to refuse to take part. You can stop answering a questionnaire at any time by closing your web browser window. Your unsubmitted answers will then be automatically deleted. If you wish, you can also skip one or more questions or sections of a questionnaire. Finally, you can also choose not to respond at all to one or more of the questionnaires for which you will receive an e-mail invitation.

Once you have completed and submitted at least one questionnaire, if you wish your data to be destroyed, you can request it by writing to gregory.fortin-vidah@usherbrooke.ca. If you have any questions or comments about this study, please do not hesitate to contact us at the same address.

The Research Ethics Board of the Université de Sherbrooke (Comité d'éthique de la recherche - Éducation et sciences sociales) has approved this project and will monitor it. If you have any questions about your rights as a participant in this research project, or if you have any comments to make, you can contact this Board at 819-821-8000, ext. 66772 (or toll-free at 1-800-267-8337), or by e-mail at ethique.ess@usherbrooke.ca.

Thank you for your collaboration.

Gregory Fortin-Vidah
gregory.fortin-vidah@usherbrooke.ca

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Resources for people experiencing distress during their participation in the project and seeking help:

· Government of Canada portal: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-health-services/mental-health-get-help.html

· Canadian Mental Health Association: https://cmha.ca/find-help/find-cmha-in-your-area/

· Mental Health Research Canada: https://www.mhrc.ca/mh-resources

· Canadian Psychological Association: https://cpa.ca/public/findingapsychologist/

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