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研究成果，建立开展蓄意自残研究的能力和能力。我们的主要目标是提供新的和可靠的信息，以便在印度和巴基斯坦等低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC）面临深刻的社会、政治和经济挑战的背景下，了解DSH的性质。研究领导者在中低收入国家的分布很分散，这限制了能力建设，限制了能力。在南亚，关于DSH的知识存在严重差距。我们将以两种方式迎接这些挑战：首先是开展研究，其次是提供培训。协作设计、文化适宜且严格实施的研究是构建能力的最佳学习工具之一。一支训练有素和熟练的劳动力队伍将继续为研究建设能力和能力。在这种伙伴关系中，能力建设是互惠和可持续的。我们将在整个伙伴关系中分享知识。工作方案将包括不同领域的培训，例如研究方法、系统审查、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，并引入其他专家来提供帮助。我们将利用有实际经验的人的专业知识来制定我们的工作计划。该项目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，他们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。我们将采用定量和定性的方法进行研究。我们将在印度和巴基斯坦培养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。我们将与包括当地社区、国际论坛和高影响力科学期刊在内的一系列利益相关者广泛分享我们的发现。我们的工作将为中低收入国家发展与文化相关的社区和初级保健应对DSH和自杀提供信息。我们的工作还将为制定自杀预防政策提供信息，包括公共卫生信息和措施。我们将记录和评估伙伴关系的发展和知识交流过程，并传播开展这项工作的结果。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登记册）将帮助我们在当地背景下检查和描述DSH，以丰富的细节探索感兴趣的实质性领域，回答一些研究问题，并为政策制定以及社区和卫生服务响应提供信息。我们将进一步了解印度和巴基斯坦之间的异同，以及南亚和世界其他地区之间的异同。

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.