A Causal Analysis of the Complex Mental Health Impacts of the Climate Crisis in Young People

气候危机对年轻人复杂心理健康影响的因果分析

基本信息

批准号：
10359497
负责人：
Jennifer Runkle
金额：
$ 41.36万
依托单位：
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-02-03 至 2025-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10359497
关键词：
Acute Address Adolescence Adolescent Age Anxiety Appalachian Region Automobile Driving Buffers COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic Chronic Chronic Phase Climate Climatology Collaborations Communities Complex Data Data Sources Depression and Suicide Ecosystem Environment Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Risk Factor Epidemiology Ethnic Origin Event Feeling suicidal First Generation College Students Frequencies Future Gender Identity Generations Geographic Information Systems Geography Goals Health Sciences Heat Waves Hurricane Incidence Individual Infrastructure Intervention Knowledge Learning Link Mediating Mental Depression Mental Health Mental disorders Mentorship Methods Modeling Natural Disasters Outcome Pathway interactions Pattern Personal Satisfaction Persons Play Population Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Poverty Psychology Public Health Quasi-experiment Race Research Research Design Risk Role Rural Science Self-Injurious Behavior Services Stress Substance abuse problem Suicide Surveys Techniques Temperature Text Time Underrepresented Students Universities Wildfire Work Youth age group base climate change climate crisis climate disaster climate impact climate variability climate-related health community-level factor digital evidence base experience extreme heat health data health training help-seeking behavior innovation insight mental development multilevel analysis programs public health relevance repository resilience response segregation social factors spatiotemporal trend undergraduate student university student weather-related disaster young adult

项目摘要

A Causal Analysis of the Complex Mental Health Impacts of the Climate Crisis in Young People Project Summary. New research recognizes the role that environmental factors sensitive to climate change and variability (e.g., increasing temperatures, heat waves) may play in the complex pathway linking environmental exposures and negative mental health and well-being outcomes. A recent survey showing 7 out of 10 young people are worried about their future in the context of these planetary changes. Few studies have fully examined climate- mental health on a national level to determine which types or combinations of climate events (extreme heat, hurricanes, extreme heat in the context of a hurricane) are connected to mental health consequences in young people. The overarching goal of this research is to comprehensively examine the sensitivity of mental health impacts to climate disasters in youth, as well as the compounding and cascading effect of concurrent extreme events across the U.S. We will leverage our longstanding partnership with Crisis Text Line (CTL), a global not-for-profit organization that provides free, 24/7, and confidential text-based crisis response service. CTL currently has the largest repository of mental health data in the world and, unlike other data sources, can provide data in real-time. We will perform a causal analysis to address the following aims: Aim 1: Examine the local spatiotemporal patterns of help-seeking for mental health in response to three extreme climate events—hurricanes, wildfires, and heatwaves—and how crisis response varies by event-type and in the acute and chronic phases. Aim 2: Identify the individual and community-level social and environmental factors that promote mental health resilience in youth impacted by a climate disaster. Aim 3: Compare the compounding effect of concurrent extreme events on longitudinal changes in youth mental health. Results will inform crisis response and mental health training efforts and fulfill a vital research gap through the “embrace of complexity” by developing conceptual models critical to understanding how climate impacts mental health. This study’s findings will be enhanced through the quasi-experimental research design, which will leverage rich spatiotemporal data to identify the mental health conditions related to climate disasters and mediating underlying disparities driving these patterns. This project will leverage our rich and productive collaboration to engage undergraduate students, primarily represented by rural ‘first generation’ college students in research. Further, this proposal will enhance the research and learning infrastructure at Appalachian State University, introducing primarily rural college students in geography, public health, and mental health sciences to transdisciplinary research that tackles 21st-century complex environmental and health challenges using causal science approaches and statistical/geospatial techniques. Traditionally underrepresented students will receive mentorship and real-world research experience at the intersection of mental health and climate change, as well as an introduction to science techniques that can identify population-level leverage points for interventions to reduce the impact of climate disasters on mental health. 1

对年轻人气候危机的复杂心理健康影响的因果分析项目摘要。新研究认识到对气候变化和可变性敏感的环境因素的作用（例如，温度升高，热浪）可能会在连接环境暴露和的复杂途径中发挥作用不利的心理健康和福祉结果。最近的一项调查显示，有10名年轻人是担心它们在这些行星变化的背景下的未来。很少有研究充分检查了气候国家一级的心理健康，以确定气候事件的类型或组合（极热，飓风中的飓风中的极端热量）与年轻人的心理健康后果有关人们。这项研究的总体目标是全面研究心理的敏感性健康对青年气候灾难的影响以及复合和级联作用的影响美国的同时极端事件，我们将利用我们与危机文本的长期合作伙伴关系 Line（CTL），一个全球非营利组织，可免费提供24/7和机密的基于文本的危机响应服务。 CTL目前拥有世界上最大的心理健康数据存储库，与其他不同数据源可以实时提供数据。我们将进行因果分析以解决以下目的：目的1：检查以三个的响应极端气候事件（野火，野火和热浪）以及危机的反应因事件类型的差异如何以及急性和慢性相。目标2：确定个人和社区层面的社会和促进受气候灾难影响的青年心理健康复原力的环境因素。目标3：比较并发极端事件对青年心理纵向变化的复杂作用健康。结果将为危机的反应和心理健康培训工作提供依据，并通过通过开发对了解气候如何影响至关重要的概念模型，“拥抱复杂性” 心理健康。这项研究的发现将通过准实验研究设计得到增强，该设计将将利用丰富的时空数据来确定与气候灾难和介导潜在的差异推动了这些模式。该项目将利用我们的富人和产品合作与本科生互动，主要由粗糙的“第一代”学院代表研究学生。此外，该建议将增强研究和学习基础设施阿巴拉契亚州立大学，在地理，公共卫生和对跨学科研究的心理健康科学，以应对21世纪的复杂环境和使用因果科学方法和统计/地理空间技术面临的健康挑战。传统上代表性不足的学生将在交集的交集中获得指导和现实世界的研究经验心理健康和气候变化，以及可以识别的科学技术简介人口水平的干预措施杠杆点，以减少气候灾难对心理健康的影响。 1

项目成果

期刊论文数量（7）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

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

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
通讯作者：
Tyler Minor;M. Sugg;J. Runkle

Spatial Analysis of Greenspace and Mental Health in North Carolina: Consideration of Rural and Urban Communities

北卡罗来纳州绿地和心理健康的空间分析：考虑农村和城市社区

DOI：
10.1097/fch.0000000000000363
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Family & Community Health
影响因子：
2.3
作者：
Ryan, Sophia C.;Sugg, Margaret M.;Runkle, Jennifer D.;Matthews, Jessica L.
通讯作者：
Matthews, Jessica L.

Evaluating co-occurring space-time clusters of depression and suicide-related outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

评估 COVID-19 大流行之前和期间同时发生的抑郁症和自杀相关结果的时空集群

DOI：
10.1016/j.sste.2023.100607
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology
影响因子：
3.4
作者：
Ryan, Sophia C.;Desjardins, Michael R.;Runkle, Jennifer D.;Wertis, Luke;Sugg, Margaret M.
通讯作者：
Sugg, Margaret M.

Cascading disasters and mental health: The February 2021 winter storm and power crisis in Texas, USA

级联灾难与心理健康：2021 年 2 月美国德克萨斯州的冬季风暴和电力危机

DOI：
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163231
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Science of The Total Environment
影响因子：
9.8
作者：
Sugg, Margaret M.;Wertis, Luke;Ryan, Sophia C.;Green, Shannon;Singh, Devyani;Runkle, Jennifer D.
通讯作者：
Runkle, Jennifer D.