TY - JOUR
T1 - Shared goals for mental health research
T2 - what, why and when for the 2020s
AU - Wykes, Til
AU - Bell, Andy
AU - Carr, Sarah
AU - Coldham, Tina
AU - Gilbody, Simon
AU - Hotopf, Matthew
AU - Johnson, Sonia
AU - Kabir, Thomas
AU - Pinfold, Vanessa
AU - Sweeney, Angela
AU - Jones, Peter B
AU - Creswell, Cathy
N1 - Funding Information:
Almost all authors have received funding from any, or all, of the following funders - the National Institute for Health Research, Wellcome Trust, UKRI, MQ and other charities supporting research. The contents of this paper were informed by the views of these funders, but the funders are not responsible for any of the specific content.
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PY - 2021/5/9
Y1 - 2021/5/9
N2 - Mental health problems bring substantial individual, community and societal costs and the need for innovation to promote good mental health and to prevent and treat mental health problems has never been greater. However, we know that research findings can take up to 20 years to implement. One way to push the pace is to focus researchers and funders on shared, specific goals and targets. We describe a consultation process organised by the Department of Health and Social Care and convened by the Chief Medical Officer to consider high level goals for future research efforts and to begin to identify UK-specific targets to measure research impact. The process took account of new scientific methods and evidence, the UK context with a universal health care system (the NHS) and the embedded research support from the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network, as well as the views of individual service users and service user organisations. The result of the consultation is a set of four overarching goals with the potential to be measured at intervals of three, five or ten years.
AB - Mental health problems bring substantial individual, community and societal costs and the need for innovation to promote good mental health and to prevent and treat mental health problems has never been greater. However, we know that research findings can take up to 20 years to implement. One way to push the pace is to focus researchers and funders on shared, specific goals and targets. We describe a consultation process organised by the Department of Health and Social Care and convened by the Chief Medical Officer to consider high level goals for future research efforts and to begin to identify UK-specific targets to measure research impact. The process took account of new scientific methods and evidence, the UK context with a universal health care system (the NHS) and the embedded research support from the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network, as well as the views of individual service users and service user organisations. The result of the consultation is a set of four overarching goals with the potential to be measured at intervals of three, five or ten years.
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U2 - 10.1080/09638237.2021.1898552
DO - 10.1080/09638237.2021.1898552
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 33966543
SN - 0963-8237
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Journal of Mental Health
JF - Journal of Mental Health
ER -