估计加拿大的气候变化和心理健康影响:一个横截面调查协议
Sherilee L Harper1, Ashlee Cunsolo2, Breanne Aylward1
1School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
PloS one
|October 11, 2023
概括
这项研究估计了加拿大对气候变化的心理健康反应的流行率. 它强调了需要在极端天气事件之外进行更广泛的研究,以了解广泛的心理社会影响.
科学领域:
- 环境心理学 环境心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 气候变化研究 气候变化研究
背景情况:
- 气候变化对心理健康产生重大影响,但研究往往集中在极端天气事件上.
- 目前关于气候变化心理社会影响的研究主要采用非随机方法对大学生进行抽样.
- 关于一般人群中对气候变化的心理健康反应的普遍性,存在一个知识差距.
研究的目的:
- 估计加拿大对气候变化的心理健康反应的流行率,规模和分布.
- 建立一个可靠的方法来评估气候变化的广泛的心理社会影响.
- 提供关于对气候变化结果的亚临床心理健康反应的首个国家流行率估计.
主要方法:
- 在加拿大的一年中,对年轻人和成年人 (13岁以上) 进行了一项横截面调查.
- 采用多阶段,多层次的随机概率抽样方法,对一个代表性的加拿大样本进行抽样.
- 采用邮寄和电话招聘,用10分钟的英语,法语和印尼语的口头问卷.
主要成果:
- 该研究方案旨在为应对气候变化的心理健康反应提供国家流行率估计.
- 预期的结果将详细说明这些反应在加拿大人口中的分布和规模.
- 分析将包括自我报告的经验,情绪,影响,亚临床结果和行为反应.
结论:
- 这项研究协议将使加拿大首次评估与气候变化相关的亚临床心理健康影响.
- 调查结果将为公共卫生战略和干预措施提供信息,以应对气候变化的心理健康负担.
- 这项研究强调了了解气候变化对心理健康的普遍影响的重要性,远远超出了急性灾害.
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