GCRF: South Asia Self Harm research capability building initiative (SASHI)

我们的愿景是汇集大量国际专业知识和卓越的研究，以建立对故意自我伤害（DSH）进行研究的能力。我们的主要目标是提供新的和可靠的信息，以了解在印度和巴基斯坦等中低收入国家（LMIC）深刻的社会，政治和经济挑战背景下DSH的性质。研究带头人在中低收入国家的分布很少，这限制了能力建设，限制了能力。在南亚，对DSH的了解存在严重差距。我们会以两种方式迎接这些挑战：第一，进行研究;第二，提供培训。合作设计、文化上适当和严格执行的研究是能力建设的最佳学习工具之一。一支训练有素、技术熟练的劳动力队伍将继续建设研究能力。在这种伙伴关系中，能力建设是互惠和可持续的。我们将在整个合作伙伴关系中分享知识，工作计划将包括不同领域的培训，如研究方法、系统评价、数据分析和研究治理。博士生将从培训中受益。我们将自己设计一些培训，并请其他专家提供帮助。我们将利用具有实际经验的人的专门知识来制定我们的工作方案。该计划涉及许多不同的学科。我们将共同努力，分享我们的知识，以支持博士后研究人员和博士生谁将成为未来的研究领导者。我们的研究计划将开发新的证据，并加强我们对DSH的理解。我们将使用定量和定性方法进行研究。我们将在印度和巴基斯坦发展一支灵活和训练有素的研究队伍，以便在具有挑战性的环境中安全，高效和严格地开展实地工作。我们将与巴基斯坦和印度的非政府组织（NGO）伙伴密切合作，并与当地社区、国际论坛和高影响力科学期刊等一系列利益相关者广泛分享我们的研究结果。我们的工作将为LMIC中DSH和自杀的文化相关社区和初级保健反应的发展提供信息。我们的工作亦会为制订预防自杀政策，包括公共卫生信息和措施提供资料，并会记录和评估伙伴关系和知识交流过程的发展，以及公布进行这项工作的结果。我们的三个核心数据集（家庭调查样本，利益相关者样本和DSH注册）将帮助我们在当地背景下检查和描述DSH，探索丰富细节的实质性兴趣领域，回答一些研究问题，并为政策制定和社区和卫生服务响应提供信息。我们将更多地了解印度和巴基斯坦之间的差异和相似之处，以及南亚和世界其他地区之间的差异和相似之处。

Our vision is to bring together a critical mass of international expertise and research excellence to build capability and capacity to conduct research on Deliberate Self Harm (DSH). Our main aim is to produce new and robust information to inform the understanding of the nature of DSH in the context of profound social, political and economic challenges in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as India and Pakistan. Research leaders are thinly spread in LMICs, which limits capability building and restricts capacity. There are serious gaps in knowledge about DSH in South Asia. We will meet these challenges in two ways: - firstly by conducting research- secondly by providing training. Research that is collaboratively designed, culturally appropriate and rigorously implemented is one of the best learning tools for building capability. A trained and skilled workforce will continue to build capability and capacity for research. In this partnership, capability building is reciprocal and sustainable. We will share knowledge across the partnership.The programme of work will include training in different areas such as research methods, systematic reviews, data analysis and research governance. PhD students will benefit from the training. We will design some of the training ourselves and bring in other experts to help. We will draw on the expertise of people with lived experience to develop our work programme. A lot of different academic disciplines are involved in the programme. We will work together and share our knowledge to support post doctoral researchers and PhD students who will become the research leaders of the future. Our research programme will develop new evidence and strengthen our understanding of DSH. We will carry out research using quantitative and qualitative methods. We will develop a flexible and trained research workforce in India and Pakistan to carry out fieldwork safely, efficiently and rigorously in challenging environments. We will work closely with Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) partners in Pakistan and India.We will share our findings widely with a range of stakeholders including the local community, international forums and in high impact scientific journals. Our work will inform the development of culturally relevant community and primary-care responses to DSH and suicide in LMIC. Our work will also inform the development of suicide prevention policies, including public health messages and measures.We will document and evaluate the development of the partnership and knowledge exchange processes, and disseminate the findings on conducting this work. Our three core datasets (household survey sample, stakeholder sample, and DSH Register) will help us to examine and describe DSH in local context, explore substantive areas of interest in rich detail, answer a number of research questions and inform policy development and community and health service responses. We will find out more about differences and similarities between India and Pakistan and the differences and similarities between South Asia and other regions of the world.