State of Mental Health Research of Adolescents and Youth in Chile: An Ontological Analysis

Vania Martínez (), Marcelo A. Crockett, Ajay Chandra, Sarah Shabbir Suwasrawala, Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Alicia Núñez () and Marcelo Gómez-Rojas
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Vania Martínez: Centro de Medicina Reproductiva y Desarrollo Integral del Adolescente (CEMERA), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380455, Chile
Marcelo A. Crockett: Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago 8380455, Chile
Ajay Chandra: Ramaiah Public Policy Center, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru 560054, India
Sarah Shabbir Suwasrawala: Ramaiah Public Policy Center, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru 560054, India
Arkalgud Ramaprasad: Information and Decision Sciences Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Alicia Núñez: Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago 8380455, Chile
Marcelo Gómez-Rojas: Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago 8380455, Chile

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 16, 1-13

Abstract: Knowing the state of mental health research in adolescents and youth can be an important tool for decision-making, especially in contexts of limited resources. The aim of this study is to map the scientific research on adolescent and youth mental health in Chile using an ontological framework. We have mapped the population of research articles on mental health of adolescents and youth in Chile in Scopus, Web of Science, and SciELO databases onto the ontology. The PRISMA reporting guidelines were used to screen the 1688 items based on relevance, duplication, and version. The corpus of 346 articles was coded into the ontology through an iterative process among the seven authors. This ontological mapping shows isolated research efforts that have been carried out in Chile to explain the whole state of mental health in adolescents and youth. There is a lack of coordination between the priorities established by the decision-makers and the researchers. Our results coincide with the need to strengthen mental health research in the country, and to prioritizing those topics that contribute to decision-making based on the needs of the population.

Keywords: mental health; research; adolescent; youth; ontology; Chile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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