Deshpande Smita N, Singh Ravinder, Bhatia Triptish, Shah Gyan D, Singh Harpreet, Hawk Mary, Nimgaonkar Vishwajit L
Dept. of Psychiatry, Centre of Excellence in Mental Health, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences & Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, Delhi, India.
Division of Non-Communicable Disease, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India.
Indian J Psychol Med. 2020 Dec;42(6 Suppl):S5-S14. doi: 10.1177/0253717620969063. Epub 2020 Dec 8.
India's National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) was initiated in 1982. In 2016, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) organized a Brainstorming Meeting on Prioritization of Mental Health Research. Recognizing the need for improving mental healthcare by building a cadre of mental health researchers based on focus areas of the NMHP, the ICMR organized a research training cum capacity building workshop in collaboration with the Cross-Fertilized Research Training Programme (funded by Fogarty International Centre, NIH, USA) in 2016. The workshop successfully prepared and reviewed 12 single and multicenter research proposals in priority areas of mental health research, which were awarded by the ICMR to middle- and junior-level research faculty and NGO.
A National Coordination Unit (NCU) was set up to mentor investigators and to coordinate, train, and monitor the progress of their projects. Investigators were paired with senior mentors and also participated in four capacity building workshops focusing on proposal-writing, evaluation, and process tracking.
Following discussions with ICMR program officers, the NCU formulated standard operating procedures for ethical conduct, data collection, data sharing, progress reporting procedures, and manuscript preparation for all research projects. Regularly scheduled long-distance communications with investigators using social media and group communications were planned. NCU partnered with the ICMR Database Management Unit to build a shared online platform for real-time data entry and storage, and organized two project review meetings where it also coordinated with US faculty to organize public workshops on manuscript writing and qualitative research.
The NCU will ensure timely completion of research projects, data entry and analysis, and reports and project publications. It is feasible to evaluate progress with the NMHP through coordinated multisite research that also enables research capacity building. Results from these projects will help in formulating policies by the Ministry of Health Government of India for achieving objectives of the NMHP.
印度国家心理健康计划（NMHP）始于1982年。2016年，印度医学研究理事会（ICMR）组织了一次关于心理健康研究优先级的头脑风暴会议。认识到需要通过基于NMHP的重点领域培养一支心理健康研究人员队伍来改善心理保健，ICMR于2016年与交叉融合研究培训计划（由美国国立卫生研究院福格蒂国际中心资助）合作组织了一次研究培训暨能力建设研讨会。该研讨会成功准备并评审了12项心理健康研究优先领域的单中心和多中心研究提案，这些提案由ICMR授予中级和初级研究人员以及非政府组织。
设立了一个国家协调单位（NCU），以指导研究人员并协调、培训和监测他们项目的进展。研究人员与高级导师配对，并参加了四个侧重于提案撰写、评估和过程跟踪的能力建设研讨会。
在与ICMR项目官员讨论后，NCU为所有研究项目制定了道德行为、数据收集、数据共享、进展报告程序和稿件准备的标准操作程序。计划通过社交媒体和群组通信定期与研究人员进行长途沟通。NCU与ICMR数据库管理单位合作建立了一个用于实时数据录入和存储的共享在线平台，并组织了两次项目评审会议，在会议上还与美国教员协调组织了关于稿件撰写和定性研究的公开研讨会。
NCU将确保研究项目、数据录入和分析以及报告和项目出版物的及时完成。通过协调多地点研究来评估与NMHP相关的进展是可行的，这也有助于研究能力建设。这些项目的结果将有助于印度卫生部制定政策以实现NMHP的目标。
