Orth Zaida, van Wyk Brian
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
BMJ Open. 2020 Aug 23;10(8):e037237. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037237.
The promotion of mental health well-being among global adolescent populations is of great public health and social significance. This is particularly true for adolescents living with chronic illnesses as studies have shown that these populations are at higher risk for developing mental health problems. There is vast recognition of the need for age and culturally appropriate interventions to promote mental well-being and prevent mental health problems. In stark contrast, there is a dearth of relevant measures of mental well-being for adolescents. Our proposed systematic review aims to identify measures of mental well-being and to assess content, psychometric properties and relevance to adolescent populations.
The systematic review methodology will be guided by the seven steps proposed by Eggar, Davey and Smith. Documents will be sourced from electronic databases (Academic Search Complete, Educational Resource Information Center, Medical Literature Analysis Retrieval System Online, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature plus, PsyArticles, SocIndex and Sabinet). All documents will be exported to Mendeley and two reviewers will independently screen the titles, abstracts and full texts for inclusion. Any discrepancies will be resolved by a third party. We will include studies published in all languages from 2000 to 2020, that use an instrument(s) that measure mental well-being among adolescent populations. Studies reporting on clinically significant mental illnesses or disorders will be excluded. A descriptive meta-synthesis approach will be used to identify and describe the mental health instruments used among adolescent populations, and to report on the psychometric properties.
Ethical approval is not required. The results of this review will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication as well as conference presentations.
促进全球青少年群体的心理健康具有重大的公共卫生和社会意义。对于患有慢性病的青少年来说尤其如此,因为研究表明这些人群出现心理健康问题的风险更高。人们广泛认识到需要采取适合年龄和文化的干预措施来促进心理健康并预防心理健康问题。与之形成鲜明对比的是,针对青少年心理健康的相关衡量标准却十分匮乏。我们提议进行的系统评价旨在确定心理健康的衡量标准,并评估其内容、心理测量特性以及与青少年群体的相关性。
系统评价方法将遵循埃加尔、戴维和史密斯提出的七个步骤。文献将来源于电子数据库(《学术搜索完整版》《教育资源信息中心》《医学文献分析与联机检索系统》《护理及相关健康文献累积索引增补版》《心理学文摘》《社会科学索引》和《萨比内特》)。所有文献将导出至Mendeley,两名评审员将独立筛选标题、摘要和全文以确定是否纳入。任何分歧将由第三方解决。我们将纳入2000年至2020年以各种语言发表的、使用测量青少年群体心理健康的工具的研究。报告具有临床意义的精神疾病或障碍的研究将被排除。将采用描述性元综合方法来识别和描述青少年群体中使用的心理健康工具,并报告其心理测量特性。
无需伦理批准。本评价的结果将通过同行评审出版物以及会议报告进行传播。