Chiachen Cheng, Lakehead University

Research

Health Policy Health Services Mental Health Services Youth Health Youth Mental Health

Latest papers

What's it gonna take? Lessons learned for youth-friendly mental health services research.
Frontiers in health services · 2025 · first author
Barriers and Opportunities for Collaboration With Primary Care: Perspectives of Early Psychosis Intervention Programs in Ontario, Canada
Early Intervention in Psychiatry · 2025
Access to a regular primary care physician among young people with early psychosis in Ontario, Canada
Early Intervention in Psychiatry · 2024

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Canadian Network for Youth-Friendly Mental Health Services: developing a standard for implementing, evaluating, and improving youth-friendly mental health services
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
$97,085
What are the mental health service needs of youth in Northern Ontario who experience psychosis?
CIHR · 2011 · Nominated PI

All 2 grants and awards

13 publications.

01

What's it gonna take? Lessons learned for youth-friendly mental health services research.

Cheng C, Siddiqui HB, St Jacques A, Kumar S, Vader K, Campbell M, Maisonneuve S, Minnery E

Frontiers in health services2025First author

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1623179 PMID: 41459005

02

Barriers and Opportunities for Collaboration With Primary Care: Perspectives of Early Psychosis Intervention Programs in Ontario, Canada

Rodrigues R, Edwards J, Madakadze C, Booth R, Archie S, MacDougall AG, Palaniyappan L, Cheng C, Chan S, Nagy K

Early Intervention in Psychiatry20252 citations

DOI: 10.1111/eip.70108

03

Access to a regular primary care physician among young people with early psychosis in Ontario, Canada

Rodrigues R, Reid JNS, Wiener JC, Archie S, Booth RG, Cheng C, MacDougall AG, Palaniyappan L, Ryan BL, Voineskos A

Early Intervention in Psychiatry20246 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/eip.13487 PMID: W4389207630

04

NorthBEAT: exploring the service needs of youth experiencing early psychosis in Northern Ontario.

Cheng C, Nadin S, Bohonis H, Katt M, Dewa CS

Frontiers in health services2023First author

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2023.1163452 PMID: 38028941

05

Patient and Physician Factors Associated with First Diagnosis of Non-affective Psychotic Disorder in Primary Care

Wiener JC, Rodrigues R, Reid JNS, Archie S, Booth RG, Cheng C, Jan SH, Kurdyak P, MacDougall AG, Palaniyappan L

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research20237 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s10488-022-01233-y

06

Editorial: Women in health services: Mental health services 2022.

Cabieses B, Cheng C, Obach A

Frontiers in health services2022

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2022.1054214 PMID: 36925857

07

Feasibility and acceptability of a volunteer peer fidelity assessment model in early psychosis intervention programmes in Ontario: Results from a pilot study

Selick A, Langill G, Cheng C, Addington D, Archie S, Butt S, Durbin J

Early Intervention in Psychiatry202110 citations

DOI: 10.1111/eip.12961

08

Implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement project: carepaths for Early Psychosis Intervention Programmes in Northeastern Ontario.

Bedard TE, Nadin S, Zufelt C, Cheng C

Early intervention in psychiatry2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/eip.12321 PMID: 26940173

09

A first step in system improvement: a survey of Early Psychosis Intervention Programmes in Ontario.

Durbin J, Selick A, Hierlihy D, Moss S, Cheng C

Early intervention in psychiatry2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/eip.12201 PMID: 25366518

10

Client and key worker ratings of need in first-episode psychosis early intervention programmes.

Hensel JM, Banayan DJ, Cheng C, Langley J, Dewa CS

Early intervention in psychiatry2016

DOI: 10.1111/eip.12171 PMID: 25112944

Canadian Network for Youth-Friendly Mental Health Services: developing a standard for implementing, evaluating, and improving youth-friendly mental health services

Nominated PICIHR2019Catalyst Grant: Patient-Oriented Research

Principal investigators: Cheng, Chiachen; Minnery, Elizabeth

Keywords: Health Policy; Health Services; Mental Health Services; Youth Health; Youth Mental Health

$97,085

What are the mental health service needs of youth in Northern Ontario who experience psychosis?

Nominated PICIHR2011Operating Grant: SickKids-CIHR-IHDCYH New Investigator Grants

Principal investigators: Cheng, Chiachen

Keywords: Health Services Research; Rural And Northern Populations

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Psychiatry
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
Department of Psychiatry
Research
Pediatrics
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
Other

Co-authors at Lakehead University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Suzanne Archie

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

4 shared papers, latest 2025

Lena Palaniyappan

Department of Psychiatry

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Richard Booth

Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Jordan Edwards

Pediatrics

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Health Policy Dear Professor Cheng, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "What's it gonna take? Lessons learned for youth-friendly mental health services research." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Canadian Network for Youth-Friendly Mental Health Services: developing a standard for implementing, evaluating, and improving youth-friendly mental health services" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

Chiachen Cheng

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

What's it gonna take? Lessons learned for youth-friendly mental health services research.

Barriers and Opportunities for Collaboration With Primary Care: Perspectives of Early Psychosis Intervention Programs in Ontario, Canada

Access to a regular primary care physician among young people with early psychosis in Ontario, Canada

NorthBEAT: exploring the service needs of youth experiencing early psychosis in Northern Ontario.

Patient and Physician Factors Associated with First Diagnosis of Non-affective Psychotic Disorder in Primary Care

Editorial: Women in health services: Mental health services 2022.

Feasibility and acceptability of a volunteer peer fidelity assessment model in early psychosis intervention programmes in Ontario: Results from a pilot study

Implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement project: carepaths for Early Psychosis Intervention Programmes in Northeastern Ontario.

A first step in system improvement: a survey of Early Psychosis Intervention Programmes in Ontario.

Client and key worker ratings of need in first-episode psychosis early intervention programmes.

Canadian Network for Youth-Friendly Mental Health Services: developing a standard for implementing, evaluating, and improving youth-friendly mental health services

What are the mental health service needs of youth in Northern Ontario who experience psychosis?

Frequent collaborators

Suzanne Archie

Lena Palaniyappan

Avra Selick

Lena Palaniyappan

Lena Palaniyappan

Chiachen Cheng

Janet Durbin

Paul Kurdyak

Richard Booth

Aristotle Voineskos

Jordan Edwards