McMahon Jennifer, March Sonja, Oakes Martha, Silverman Wendy K, Creswell Cathy, Rowe Arlen, Rajabi Mohsen, Skripkauskaite Simona
Health Research Institute, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Centre for Health Research, School of Psychology & Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich, Australia.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2025 May 29;19(1):62. doi: 10.1186/s13034-025-00918-0.
During the most recent global crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic, mental health researchers globally were tasked with carrying out high-quality and responsive research to understand the changes and long-term trajectories in young people’s mental health symptoms. Comparative international longitudinal research has been recommended as a particularly promising avenue to understand pandemic impacts and facilitate global solutions. The Co-SPACE International Consortium comprises researchers from 14 sites who aimed to compare findings on the impact of the pandemic on young people and family mental health. This paper describes the process and challenges associated with the Consortium’s efforts to combine country-level data to produce global insights for research and clinical practice for the past three years. Several key challenges were identified, particularly about the conduct of international comparative research. These challenges concerned funding, ethics review, data sharing, variations in cultural and local contexts, lack of cross-culturally comparable or meaningful measures, research design, and dissemination. After considering these challenges, we provide a range of recommendations that provide a blueprint for the gathering of timely and robust evidence, the identification of global trends, the mobilisation of resources, and effective support to children and families in public health crises.
在最近因新冠疫情引发的全球危机期间，全球心理健康研究人员的任务是开展高质量且及时响应的研究，以了解年轻人心理健康症状的变化及长期发展轨迹。比较国际纵向研究被推荐为理解疫情影响并推动全球解决方案的一条特别有前景的途径。“共同空间”国际联盟由来自14个地点的研究人员组成，旨在比较疫情对年轻人及家庭心理健康影响的研究结果。本文描述了该联盟在过去三年中为整合国家级数据以产生用于研究和临床实践的全球见解所做努力的过程及面临的挑战。确定了几个关键挑战，特别是在国际比较研究的开展方面。这些挑战涉及资金、伦理审查、数据共享、文化和当地背景的差异、缺乏跨文化可比或有意义的测量方法、研究设计以及传播。在考虑这些挑战之后，我们提供了一系列建议，这些建议为收集及时且有力的证据、识别全球趋势、调动资源以及在公共卫生危机中为儿童和家庭提供有效支持提供了蓝图。
