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. 2022 Aug 11;19(16):9889.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19169889.

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

Vania Martínez  1   2   3 , Marcelo A Crockett  2   3   4 , Ajay Chandra  5 , Sarah Shabbir Suwasrawala  5 , Arkalgud Ramaprasad  6 , Alicia Núñez  2   7 , Marcelo Gómez-Rojas  2   7
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State of Mental Health Research of Adolescents and Youth in Chile: An Ontological Analysis

Vania Martínez et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

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: Chile; adolescent; mental health; ontology; research; youth.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Ontology of mental health of adolescents and youth.
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PRISMA flow diagram.
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Monad map of mental health of adolescents and youth in Chile.
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Theme map of mental health of adolescents and youth in Chile.
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This project was partially funded by ANID-Millennium Science Initiative Program-NCS2021_081 and ICS13_005. VM received funding from ANID/FONDECYT 1221230. MAC received funding from ANID/PFCHA/DOCTORADO NACIONAL/2019-21190859. The founding sources had no influence on study design, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, of the writing of the report.