Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and Publishing
Background: Collaborations among researchers, clinicians, and individuals with mental illness from high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are crucial to produce research, interventions, and policies that are relevant, feasible, and ethical. However, global mental h...
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| author | Brandon A. Kohrt Nawaraj Upadhaya Nagendra P. Luitel Sujen M. Maharjan Bonnie N. Kaiser Elizabeth K. MacFarlane Noreen Khan |
| author_facet | Brandon A. Kohrt Nawaraj Upadhaya Nagendra P. Luitel Sujen M. Maharjan Bonnie N. Kaiser Elizabeth K. MacFarlane Noreen Khan |
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| description | Background: Collaborations among researchers, clinicians, and individuals with mental illness from high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are crucial to produce research, interventions, and policies that are relevant, feasible, and ethical. However, global mental health and cultural psychiatry research publications have been dominated by HIC investigators. Objective: The aim of this review was to present recommendations for collaborative writing with a focus on early career investigators in HICs and LMICs. Methods: A workshop was conducted with HIC and LMIC investigators in Nepal to discuss lessons learned for collaborative writing. The researchers had experience in cross-cultural psychiatric epidemiology, health services research, randomized controlled trials, and projects with war and disaster-affected populations in complex humanitarian emergencies including child soldiers and refugees. Additional lessons learned were contributed from researchers engaged in similar collaborations in Haiti. Findings: A step-by-step process for collaborative writing was developed. Conclusions: HIC and LMIC writing collaborations will encourage accurate, ethical, and contextually grounded publications to foster understanding and facilitate reduction of the global burden of mental illness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b40a641cd886415999692bb96b84f70c2022-12-21T22:59:02ZengUbiquity PressAnnals of Global Health2214-99962014-06-0180213414210.1016/j.aogh.2014.04.00765Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and PublishingBrandon A. Kohrt0Nawaraj Upadhaya1Nagendra P. Luitel2Sujen M. Maharjan3Bonnie N. Kaiser4Elizabeth K. MacFarlane5Noreen Khan6Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC; Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, NepalTranscultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal; HealthNetTPO Netherlands, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTranscultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, NepalDepartment of Psychology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, NepalDepartment of Anthropology, Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GADuke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NCTrinity School of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NCBackground: Collaborations among researchers, clinicians, and individuals with mental illness from high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are crucial to produce research, interventions, and policies that are relevant, feasible, and ethical. However, global mental health and cultural psychiatry research publications have been dominated by HIC investigators. Objective: The aim of this review was to present recommendations for collaborative writing with a focus on early career investigators in HICs and LMICs. Methods: A workshop was conducted with HIC and LMIC investigators in Nepal to discuss lessons learned for collaborative writing. The researchers had experience in cross-cultural psychiatric epidemiology, health services research, randomized controlled trials, and projects with war and disaster-affected populations in complex humanitarian emergencies including child soldiers and refugees. Additional lessons learned were contributed from researchers engaged in similar collaborations in Haiti. Findings: A step-by-step process for collaborative writing was developed. Conclusions: HIC and LMIC writing collaborations will encourage accurate, ethical, and contextually grounded publications to foster understanding and facilitate reduction of the global burden of mental illness.https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/128authorshipdeveloping countrieseducationmental disorderspublishingworld health |
| spellingShingle | Brandon A. Kohrt Nawaraj Upadhaya Nagendra P. Luitel Sujen M. Maharjan Bonnie N. Kaiser Elizabeth K. MacFarlane Noreen Khan Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and Publishing Annals of Global Health authorship developing countries education mental disorders publishing world health |
| title | Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and Publishing |
| title_full | Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and Publishing |
| title_fullStr | Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and Publishing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and Publishing |
| title_short | Authorship in Global Mental Health Research: Recommendations for Collaborative Approaches to Writing and Publishing |
| title_sort | authorship in global mental health research recommendations for collaborative approaches to writing and publishing |
| topic | authorship developing countries education mental disorders publishing world health |
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