Sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health in schools (SCRAMS)

青春期是精神疾病发病的关键发展阶段。这也是一个时间，获得足够的睡眠成为一个重大挑战。睡眠中断是年轻人精神疾病的一个重要潜在风险因素，但这是一个尚未得到适当调查的领域。该项目将建立在与苏格兰学校（学校健康和福祉改善研究网络，称为SHINE）已经建立的联系基础上，以发展一个全英国范围的研究合作，重点调查学校内的睡眠和心理健康。这种以学校为基础的研究在大规模招募年轻人进行研究方面提供了许多优势，加上以学校为基础的治疗具有相当大的潜力，可以影响人口一级的长期心理健康结果。在学生、家长和教师的参与下，我们将设计和实施一项以学校睡眠和心理健康为重点的公众参与计划。我们亦会进行一系列小规模的可行性研究，以协助我们日后设计更全面的研究。这些研究将找到最有效的方法来收集客观的睡眠和心理健康数据，光暴露数据（自然光和人造光）以及学校内青少年的生物样本。总的来说，该项目有可能建立一个新的以学校为基础的青少年心理健康研究联盟，重点是了解睡眠，光照和心理健康之间的复杂关系，以期在未来制定更好的心理健康干预措施。

Adolescence is a key developmental stage for the onset of mental illness. It is also a time when getting enough sleep becomes a major challenge. Disrupted sleep represents an important potential risk factor for mental ill-health in young people but this is an area that has not yet been properly investigated. This project will build on already well-established links with schools in Scotland (the Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network, called SHINE) to develop a UK-wide research collaboration focused on investigating sleep and mental health within schools. Schools-based research of this kind offers many advantages in terms of the large-scale recruitment of young people to research studies, plus schools-based treatments have considerable potential to influence long-term mental health outcomes at a population level. With input from pupils, parents and teachers, we will design and carry out a programme of public engagement focused on sleep and mental health within schools. We will also conduct a series of small-scale feasibility studies that will help us to design more comprehensive studies in the future. These studies will find the most effective way to collect objective sleep and mental health data, light exposure data (both natural light and artificial light), and biological samples in adolescents within schools. Overall, this project has the potential to establish a new schools-based adolescent mental health research consortium focused on understanding the complex relationships between sleep, light exposure and mental wellbeing, with a view to developing better interventions for mental health in the future.