Exploring Mental Health Services and Supports for Indigenous Boys and Men: A Scoping Review
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
While research on Indigenous mental health has expanded in recent years, much of it has focused either broadly on Indigenous populations or on specific subgroups such as women, children, and youth. In contrast, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis boys and men remain significantly underrepresented in both research and programming, despite facing disproportionate mental health challenges. This scoping review aims to systematically map and identify trends in the existing literature on mental health and wellness services, supports, and interventions explicitly tailored for Indigenous boys and men in Canada aged 9 to 30. Following the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis and PRISMA-ScR guidelines, a comprehensive search strategy was developed in collaboration with a research librarian. Peer-reviewed and grey literature will be reviewed across five databases (Scopus, PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Web of Science), as well as through Google Scholar and Indigenous community sources. Studies will be included if they report on services or interventions specifically targeting Indigenous boys and men in Canada. This project is part of a broader collaborative research initiative under the ACCESS Open Minds Indigenous Youth Mental Health and Wellness Network (AOMIYMHWN). It is guided by the AOMIYMHWN Advisory Circle and network partners, with the goal of informing service recommendations and addressing key gaps in the literature to enhance the relevance and responsiveness of mental health research and programming for Indigenous boys and men. Preliminary findings suggest a limited but growing number of culturally grounded, community-driven, and gender-specific programs. By identifying gaps and emerging themes, this review can help guide future programming, research, and policy efforts aimed at improving mental health outcomes for Indigenous boys and men in Canada.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it