Investigating the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change in Youth: Design and Implementation of the International Changing Worlds Study

作者：Ans Vercammen, Sandhya Kanaka Yatirajula, Mercian Daniel, Sandeep Maharaj, Michael Campbell, Natalie Greaves, Renzo Guinto, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Criselle Angeline Peñamante, Britt Wray, Emma Lawrance · 发表于：Challenges · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3390/challe14030034 · 被引用次数：9 · 研究领域：Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research、Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction、Health, psychology, and well-being

As climate change continues unabated, research is increasingly focused on capturing and quantifying the lesser-known psychological responses and mental health implications of this humanitarian and environmental crisis. There has been a particular interest in the experiences of young people, who are more vulnerable for a range of reasons, including their developmental stage, the high rates of mental health conditions among this population, and their relative lack of agency to address climate threats. The different geographic and sociocultural settings in which people are coming of age afford certain opportunities and present distinct challenges and exposures to climate hazards. Understanding the diversity of lived experiences is vitally important for informing evidence-based, locally led psychosocial support and social and climate policies. In this Project Report we describe the design and implementation of the “Changing Worlds” study, focusing on our experiences and personal reflections as a transdisciplinary collaboration representing the UK, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, the Philippines, and the USA. The project was conceived within the planetary health paradigm, aimed at characterizing and quantifying the impacts of human-mediated environmental systems changes on youth mental health and wellbeing. With input from local youth representatives, we designed and delivered a series of locally adapted surveys asking young people about their mental health and wellb...