The Contribution of Environmental Science to Mental Health Research: A Scoping Review.
The Contribution of Environmental Science to Mental Health Research: A Scoping Review.
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10.3390/ijerph20075278
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发表时间：
2023-03-27
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Irvine, Katherine N
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Roberts, Michaela;Colley, Kathryn;Currie, Margaret;Eastwood, Antonia;Li, Kuang-Heng;Avery, Lisa M;Beevers, Lindsay C;Braithwaite, Isobel;Dallimer, Martin;Davies, Zoe G;Fisher, Helen L;Gidlow, Christopher J;Memon, Anjum;Mudway, Ian S;Naylor, Larissa A;Reis, Stefan;Smith, Pete;Stansfeld, Stephen A;Wilkie, Stephanie;Irvine, Katherine N
心理健康受到多种复杂且相互作用的遗传、心理、社会和环境因素的影响。因此，发展最先进的心理健康知识需要跨学科的合作，包括环境科学。为了评估当前环境科学对这一领域的贡献，对环境对心理健康的影响(包括认知发展和衰退的条件)的文献进行了范围回顾。审查方案是在与心理健康和环境科学领域的专家磋商后制定的。范围审查包括2010年至2020年(新冠肺炎大流行之前)发表的202篇英文论文，涉及最近尚未进行系统审查的环境主题；此外还考虑了关于气候变化、洪水、空气污染和城市绿地的26篇综述。研究主要集中在美国、中国或欧洲的人口，涉及的环境科学投入有限。环境科学研究方法主要侧重于利用次级数据集或实地数据的量化方法。心理健康测量主要使用自我报告心理测量量表。对环境状态或暴露的衡量往往缺乏特异性(例如，仅限于环境状态的存在或不存在)。基于范围综述的结果和我们对最近综述的综合，环境科学对心理健康学术的未来贡献的研究议程被制定出来。这包括建议扩大地理范围和扩大不同环境科学领域的代表性，改进对环境暴露的衡量，优先考虑实验和纵向研究设计，更多地考虑社区之间和社区内部的差异以及环境影响心理健康的中介途径。通过整合概念模型、采用混合方法和定性方法，以及进一步考虑有助于支持良好心理健康的社会政治背景和环境状况，也有相当大的机会在实地加强跨学科。这些发现被用来提出一个概念模型，以解析环境科学和心理健康之间的贡献和联系，为未来的研究提供信息。
Mental health is influenced by multiple complex and interacting genetic, psychological, social, and environmental factors. As such, developing state-of-the-art mental health knowledge requires collaboration across academic disciplines, including environmental science. To assess the current contribution of environmental science to this field, a scoping review of the literature on environmental influences on mental health (including conditions of cognitive development and decline) was conducted. The review protocol was developed in consultation with experts working across mental health and environmental science. The scoping review included 202 English-language papers, published between 2010 and 2020 (prior to the COVID-19 pandemic), on environmental themes that had not already been the subject of recent systematic reviews; 26 reviews on climate change, flooding, air pollution, and urban green space were additionally considered. Studies largely focused on populations in the USA, China, or Europe and involved limited environmental science input. Environmental science research methods are primarily focused on quantitative approaches utilising secondary datasets or field data. Mental health measurement was dominated by the use of self-report psychometric scales. Measures of environmental states or exposures were often lacking in specificity (e.g., limited to the presence or absence of an environmental state). Based on the scoping review findings and our synthesis of the recent reviews, a research agenda for environmental science’s future contribution to mental health scholarship is set out. This includes recommendations to expand the geographical scope and broaden the representation of different environmental science areas, improve measurement of environmental exposure, prioritise experimental and longitudinal research designs, and giving greater consideration to variation between and within communities and the mediating pathways by which environment influences mental health. There is also considerable opportunity to increase interdisciplinarity within the field via the integration of conceptual models, the inclusion of mixed methods and qualitative approaches, as well as further consideration of the socio-political context and the environmental states that can help support good mental health. The findings were used to propose a conceptual model to parse contributions and connections between environmental science and mental health to inform future studies.