Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Blvd, Room 7164, Bethesda, MD 20892-9631, USA.
Adm Policy Ment Health. 2012 Jul;39(4):321-6. doi: 10.1007/s10488-011-0399-z.
Collaboration between researchers and stakeholder groups is a potentially powerful mechanism for strengthening the quality of mental health research and for amplifying its public health impact. For stakeholders, collaboration offers opportunities to help shape research questions; participate in data collection and interpretation; and improve local capacity to access and use research findings. For researchers, collaboration can build understanding of what stakeholders want and need from research; enhance capacity to frame research questions and findings in language and metrics of value to stakeholders; and provide opportunities to contribute science-backed knowledge to decision-making processes in real world settings. Key stakeholder groups can include the recipients and providers of care, public and private care systems, health plans, schools, family service and faith-based organizations, correctional systems, and employers providing mental health benefits. This commentary reflects on the path that NIMH has taken in fostering researcher-stakeholder collaboration, particularly regarding child and adolescent mental health research. It describes the goals that NIMH set out to achieve, steps taken to realize those goals, lessons learned from those efforts, and possible next steps.
研究人员和利益相关者群体之间的合作是一种潜在的强大机制，可以提高心理健康研究的质量，并增强其对公共卫生的影响。对于利益相关者来说，合作提供了帮助确定研究问题、参与数据收集和解释以及提高当地获取和使用研究成果的能力的机会。对于研究人员来说，合作可以加深对利益相关者对研究的期望和需求的理解；增强以利益相关者重视的语言和指标来构建研究问题和研究结果的能力；并提供机会，为现实环境中的决策过程提供基于科学的知识。关键的利益相关者群体包括护理的接受者和提供者、公共和私人护理系统、医疗保健计划、学校、家庭服务和信仰组织、惩教系统以及提供精神健康福利的雇主。这篇评论反映了 NIMH 在促进研究人员与利益相关者合作方面所采取的路径，特别是在儿童和青少年心理健康研究方面。它描述了 NIMH 设定的目标、为实现这些目标而采取的步骤、从这些努力中吸取的经验教训以及可能的下一步行动。
