Engaging Young People in the Development of Digital Mental Health Innovation in Africa

让年轻人参与非洲数字心理健康创新的发展

• 批准号: EP/T029595/1
• 负责人: Ilina Singh
• 金额: $ 18.6万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT029595%2F1
• 关键词: Engaging; Young; People; Development; Digital

Mental health challenges are faced by 1 in 4 people globally, but in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), up to 80% of people do not receive preventive or acute care . Digital mental health is seen as a promising route to address the treatment gap, but also raises ethical, legal and policy challenges. In LMICs, lack of ethics, governance and policy guidance can slow down or prevent translation of digital mental health innovations into the healthcare system. This impinges on the rights of individuals to access mental health technologies that arise from digital innovations. A further consequence of the lack of attention to ethics and governance challenges is that the balance of harms and benefits of digital mental health have not been properly identified and analysed. The lack of analysis is likely to disproportionately affect young people, who are a key target for mental health interventions, and who also have distinctive individual and social vulnerabilities. To address this problem, the network will bring together stakeholders and experts in the ethics of digital mental health, digital innovators, mental health practitioners, and policy makers across Africa. The chief aim is to develop a robust framework for responsible and relevant digital mental health interventions for young people in African countries. The cross-disciplinary network will have a group of young people at its core, who will co-create all its work and outputs. The network will use a stakeholder mapping surveys, workshops and interdisciplinary training and exchanges to achieve its aims. It will contribute not only to scholarship, but also to research capacity, co-production, inter-sector mobility, and democratic participation among young people. Project activities will include:-Intensive training and capacity-building opportunities for early career researchers and young people (e.g. workshops; visiting scholar programmes);-Meetings and workshops to facilitate the transfer of knowledge among stakeholders;-Literature reviews to critically assess and synthesise existing work, identify gaps, and formulate research questions-Community engagement to inform empirical questions-With young people, co-create a sustainable engagement strategy to involve young people, with a focus on representation from vulnerable groups, such as LGBTQ+; sexual violence survivors; those living with HIV/AIDSYoung people will be at the core of the Network, integrated with expert groups of researchers in ethics and social sciences; service providers (app developers, mental health practitioners and researchers); religious congregations, policy and governance. This will ensure the network outputs reflect the needs of young people and that the framework is scalable and sustainable as it is co-produced with young people, researchers, service providers, and policy makers. 1. Patel, V., Saxena, S., Lund, C., Thornicroft, G., Baingana, F., Bolton, P., et al. (2018). The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development. The Lancet, 392(10157), 1553-1598.

全球每四个人中就有一个人面临心理健康挑战，但在中低收入国家（LMIC），高达80%的人得不到预防性或紧急护理。数字化心理健康被视为解决治疗差距的一条有希望的途径，但也带来了伦理、法律的和政策方面的挑战。在中低收入国家，缺乏道德、治理和政策指导可能会减缓或阻止数字精神健康创新转化为医疗保健系统。这影响了个人获得数字创新产生的精神健康技术的权利。缺乏对道德和治理挑战的关注的另一个后果是，数字心理健康的危害和好处的平衡尚未得到适当的识别和分析。缺乏分析可能会对年轻人造成不成比例的影响，他们是心理健康干预措施的主要目标，也具有独特的个人和社会脆弱性。为了解决这一问题，该网络将汇集非洲各地的利益相关者和数字心理健康伦理专家、数字创新者、心理健康从业者和政策制定者。其主要目标是为非洲国家的年轻人制定一个负责任和相关的数字心理健康干预措施的强大框架。跨学科网络将以一群年轻人为核心，他们将共同创造其所有工作和产出。该网络将利用利益攸关方摸底调查、讲习班以及跨学科培训和交流来实现其目标。它不仅有助于学术研究，而且有助于提高研究能力、共同制作、部门间流动和年轻人的民主参与。- 为早期职业研究人员和年轻人提供强化培训和能力建设机会（例如：讲习班;访问学者方案）;-举行会议和讲习班，以促进利益攸关方之间的知识转让;- 文献审查，以批判性地评估和综合现有的工作，找出差距，并制定研究问题-社区参与，以告知经验问题-与年轻人，共同创建一个可持续的参与战略，让年轻人参与，重点关注弱势群体的代表性，如LGBTQ+;性暴力幸存者;艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者年轻人将成为网络的核心，与伦理和社会科学研究人员专家组;服务提供者（应用程序开发人员，心理健康从业人员和研究人员）;宗教会众，政策和治理相结合。这将确保网络产出反映青年人的需求，并确保该框架是可扩展和可持续的，因为它是与青年人、研究人员、服务提供者和决策者共同制作的。 1.帕特尔，V.，萨克塞纳，S.，隆德，C.，Thornicroft，G.，Baingana，F.，博尔顿，P。，等（2018）。全球精神卫生和可持续发展柳叶刀委员会。The Lancet，392（10157），1553-1598.

项目成果

The Digital Mental Health Revolution: Transforming Care Through Innovation And Scale- Up

数字心理健康革命：通过创新和扩大规模改变护理方式

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Roland J

Digital Mental Health Interventions for Young People in Rural South Africa: Prospects and Challenges for Implementation.

• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20021453
• 发表时间: 2023-01-13
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
• 作者: Mindu, Tafadzwa;Mutero, Innocent Tinashe;Ngcobo, Winnie Baphumelele;Musesengwa, Rosemary;Chimbari, Moses John
• 通讯作者: Chimbari, Moses John