CAREER: The Geography of Mental Health: Understanding contextual, compositional, and external stressors.

职业：心理健康地理学：了解背景、成分和外部压力源。

• 批准号: 2044839
• 负责人: Margaret Sugg
• 金额: $ 41.38万
• 依托单位: Appalachian State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2027-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044839&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Geography; Mental; Health; Understanding

This project advances the understanding of the complex relationship between mental health and geography across an array of mental health outcomes ranging from less severe (e.g., depression, crisis help-seeking behaviors) to more severe (e.g., suicide). The findings of this research are potentially transformative for both mental health and geographical research because it uses geographic methods to identify populations with elevated mental health risks and creates a conceptual framework for environmental and social drivers of patterns in mental health outcomes. On a more fundamental level, this project raises awareness of the impact of COVID-19 and environmental stressors on mental health and the populations at risk for adverse mental health consequences. The model and research approach developed in this project are likely to be generally useful for evaluating mental health stressors in numerous locations. The project's educational activities target first-generation college students and K-12 educators who use instructional technology. Mental disorders and suicide are an acute public health crisis. There is a critical need to understand the myriad of mental health disorders and implement public health interventions at multiple levels. This study examines mental health across contexts using a geographic lens to describe a complex set of interacting factors that produce adverse outcomes. More specifically, this project will address the following research questions: (1) What are the spatial and temporal patterns of mental health outcomes (e.g., suicide, self-harm, depression, anxiety, etc.)? (2) What are the underlying contextual factors (e.g., community-level poverty, racial segregation) and compositional (e.g., gender, age, veteran status, lethal means) that influence these outcomes? (3) What are external stressors (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters) that lead to increased mental health outcomes? The methodology leverages multiple population-based datasets and uses methods that analyze the external causes of different mental health outcomes. This project's findings will be enhanced through collaboration with colleagues and students in psychology, ensuring that the information derived from this project is put into practice rapidly, accurately, and effectively.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目通过一系列心理健康结果，从不太严重的(如抑郁、危机求助行为)到更严重的(如自杀)，促进了对心理健康与地理之间复杂关系的理解。这项研究的结果对心理健康和地理研究都具有潜在的变革性，因为它使用地理方法来识别心理健康风险增加的人群，并为心理健康结果模式的环境和社会驱动因素创建了一个概念框架。在更根本的层面上，该项目提高了人们对新冠肺炎和环境应激源对心理健康和面临不利心理健康后果风险的人群的影响的认识。这个项目中开发的模型和研究方法很可能对评估许多地点的心理健康应激源普遍有用。该项目的教育活动面向使用教育技术的第一代大学生和K-12教育工作者。精神障碍和自杀是一种严重的公共卫生危机。迫切需要了解各种精神健康障碍，并在多个层面实施公共卫生干预措施。这项研究使用地理镜头来描述一组产生不利结果的复杂的相互作用的因素，来检查不同背景下的心理健康。更具体地说，这个项目将解决以下研究问题：(1)心理健康结果的时空模式(例如，自杀、自残、抑郁、焦虑等)？(2)哪些潜在的背景因素(例如，社区水平的贫困、种族隔离)和构成因素(例如，性别、年龄、退伍军人身份、致命手段)影响这些结果？(3)哪些外部应激源(例如，新冠肺炎大流行、自然灾害)会导致心理健康结果的增加？该方法利用了多个基于人群的数据集，并使用了分析不同心理健康结果的外部原因的方法。这个项目的发现将通过与心理学的同事和学生的合作得到加强，确保从这个项目中获得的信息被快速、准确和有效地应用于实践。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Short-term exposure to temperature and mental health in North Carolina: a distributed lag nonlinear analysis

• DOI: 10.1007/s00484-023-02436-0
• 发表时间: 2023-02
• 期刊: International Journal of Biometeorology
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Tyler Minor;M. Sugg;J. Runkle

A spatial analysis of power-dependent medical equipment and extreme weather risk in the southeastern United States

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103844
• 发表时间: 2023-07
• 期刊: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Taylin Spurlock;Kelly Sewell;M. Sugg;J. Runkle;R. Mercado;J. Tyson;Jamie Russell

Climate change and health in rural mountain environments: summary of a workshop on knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

农村山区环境中的气候变化与健康：知识差距、障碍和行动机会研讨会摘要

• DOI: 10.1007/s10708-023-10916-4
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: GeoJournal
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Sugg, Margaret Mae;Ryan, Sophia;Spurlock, Taylin;Duncan, Sara;Hege, Adam;Ogwu, Matthew Chidozie;Tyson, Jennifer;Shay, Elizabeth;Renwick, Kelly Ann;Hendren, Christine
• 通讯作者: Hendren, Christine

Examining spatiotemporal trends of drought in the conterminous United States using self-organizing maps

• DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2022.2035891
• 发表时间: 2022-02
• 期刊: Physical Geography
• 影响因子: 1.6
• 作者: M. Moreno;M. Sugg;Camila Moreno;Dr. Johnathan Sugg;Dr. Baker L. Perry;J. Runkle;R. Leeper

Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Adolescent Bereavement in the United States During the Extended Response to COVID-19: A Follow-Up Study

COVID-19 长期响应期间美国青少年丧亲之痛的时空聚集：一项后续研究

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.08.021
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Adolescent Health
• 影响因子: 7.6
• 作者: Ryan, Sophia C.;Runkle, Jennifer D.;Sugg, Margaret M.;Singh, Devyani;Green, Shannon;Wertis, Luke
• 通讯作者: Wertis, Luke