SOCITS: A SOCial sITuational Systems approach to measuring and modelling influences on adolescent mental health

SOCITS：一种社会情境系统方法，用于测量和建模对青少年心理健康的影响

• 批准号: MR/X003264/1
• 负责人: Mark McCann
• 金额: $ 81.98万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX003264%2F1
• 关键词: SOCITS; SOCial; sITuational; Systems; approach

This project will create a new method for researchers, counsellors, teachers, and young people to do research about adolescent mental health. It will also study how the method works, what training you need to use it, and how easy it is for researchers to learn the method. Most mental health survey research asks questions about how individual young people feel in general, asking people if they feel stressed or lonely 'all of the time', 'most of the time' or 'none of the time', but without asking what the different times are like, or what other people are doing at the times where they feel stressed or lonely. We think that research spends too much time looking at individual young people, and too much time asking general questions about mental health. Instead, we should look at the important situations in young people's lives, we should look at different social interactions that take place in those situations, and we should think about the connections between people. Looking at connections between people is thinking about a system of people, so we call our approach the SOCial SITuational Systems or SOCITS approach.SOCITS will help to understand the reasons for things like loneliness, stress and mental health. And change how we improve mental health. Instead of only looking at what goes on inside people's heads, SOCITS will looking at the social situations and places around individuals that affect mental health.In the project, we will train young people to be researchers, so they can interview secondary school students to find out about the situations in their school and how they might affect stress, loneliness, mental health, and holding negative attitudes about other people with mental illness. We will take what we find out from these interviews, and have a group discussion with young people, teachers, and mental health researchers to find out what the group thinks are the reasons for poor mental health. We will use the final decisions of the group do two things: design a survey to find out what actually happens in schools, and build a computer program to create an artificial school that we can use to study what would happen if we changed some of the situations in school.After this, we will test out the survey we designed to see what young people think about filling out the survey, and we will come up with plans on how to analyse the surveys. We will also do studies with the computer programme artificial school, and compare the artificial school to what we know about the real school from the survey information.After we do the study, we will write instructions on how other research teams can use the SOCITS approach to do a study of their own looking at different topics. For example, instead of stress and loneliness, other researchers might look at social media use, self-harm or substance use. We will also study how easy our instructions are to understand, and if there are difficulties, this will help us improve our guidance documents. From day 1, we will make information about the project plans freely available for everyone to read. We will also organise six online meetings for people to find out more about the ideas behind SOCITS and decide how they could be used for their own work. By the end of the study, we hope that we will have added some new ways to do mental health research that can help improve how adolescents feel, help prevent poor mental health, and improve the quality of life for people with mental illness.

该项目将为研究人员、辅导员、教师和年轻人研究青少年心理健康创造一种新的方法。它还将研究该方法是如何工作的，你需要什么训练来使用它，以及研究人员学习该方法的容易程度。大多数心理健康调查研究询问的问题是关于年轻人个人的总体感受，询问他们是否“一直”、“大部分时间”或“没有时间”感到压力或孤独，但没有问不同的时间是什么样的，或者其他人在他们感到压力或孤独的时候在做什么。我们认为，研究花了太多的时间来研究个别的年轻人，也花了太多的时间来询问有关心理健康的一般性问题。相反，我们应该关注年轻人生活中的重要情况，我们应该关注在这些情况下发生的不同社会互动，我们应该思考人与人之间的联系。观察人与人之间的联系就是思考一个人的系统，所以我们把我们的方法称为社会情境系统或SOCITS方法。SOCITS将有助于理解孤独、压力和心理健康等问题的原因。改变我们改善心理健康的方式。SOCITS将研究影响心理健康的社会环境和个人周围的环境，而不仅仅是人们头脑中发生的事情。在这个项目中，我们将培养年轻人成为研究人员，这样他们就可以采访中学生，了解他们学校的情况，以及这些情况如何影响压力，孤独，心理健康，对其他精神病患者持消极态度。我们将从这些访谈中找到一些东西，并与年轻人，教师和心理健康研究人员进行小组讨论，以找出小组认为心理健康状况不佳的原因。我们将利用小组的最后决定做两件事：设计一个调查，看看学校里到底发生了什么，并建立一个计算机程序，创建一个人工学校，我们可以用它来研究如果我们改变学校里的一些情况会发生什么。之后，我们将测试我们设计的调查，看看年轻人对填写调查表的看法，我们会就如何分析这些调查提出计划。我们还将使用计算机程序artificial school进行研究，并将人造学校与我们从调查信息中了解到的真实的学校进行比较。完成研究后，我们将编写说明，说明其他研究团队如何使用SOCITS方法对不同主题进行研究。例如，其他研究人员可能会关注社交媒体的使用、自我伤害或物质使用，而不是压力和孤独。我们还将研究我们的说明是否容易理解，如果有困难，这将有助于我们改进指导文件。从第一天开始，我们将免费提供有关项目计划的信息，供所有人阅读。我们还将组织六次在线会议，让人们更多地了解SOCITS背后的想法，并决定如何将其用于自己的工作。在研究结束时，我们希望我们将增加一些新的方法来进行心理健康研究，这些方法可以帮助改善青少年的感受，帮助预防心理健康状况不佳，并提高精神疾病患者的生活质量。