Cohort Profile: The Dutch TRacking Adolescents Individual Lives Survey; TRAILS
Cohort Profile: The Dutch TRacking Adolescents Individual Lives Survey; TRAILS
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DOI：
10.1093/ije/dym273
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
影响因子：
7.7
通讯作者：
Ormel, Johan
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作者：
Huisman, Martijn;Oldehinkel, Albertine J.;Ormel, Johan
精神障碍占西方世界疾病总负担的五分之一，因此，应得到国际流行病学研究界的应有重视。如果没有长期纵向队列研究的可靠和有效的数据，就不可能对人群中精神病理的病因和病程进行高质量的研究。无论是从科学的角度，还是从预防和公共卫生政策的角度来看，青少年精神病理学的研究都很重要。青春期的特点是面临重大的生物、心理和社会挑战和机遇，个人与环境之间的相互作用非常激烈，发展途径开始启动或确立。2-4此外，青少年精神病理对以后的教育、人际关系和社会经济成就有重要影响。5-7青少年的这些特征不仅对旨在捕捉发育途径最突出方面的队列研究提出了很高的要求，而且还确保从这些研究中获得大量的经验知识和宝贵的公共卫生政策信息来源。为了充分利用这一潜力，必须采取多学科方法。
Mental disorders account for one-fifth of the total burden of disease in the Western world, 1 and, as such, should require due attention from the international epidemiological research community. Good quality research on the aetiology and course of psychopathology in the population is impossible without reliable and valid data from long-term longitudinal cohort studies. Research on psychopathology in adolescence is important both from a scientific point of view and from the point of view of prevention and public health policy. Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established. 2–4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life. 5–7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies. In order to fully benefit from this potential, a multidisciplinary approach is essential.