Annals of Global Health
Volume 80, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 134-142

Authorship in global mental health research: Recommendations for collaborative approaches to writing and publishing (Review) (Open Access)

Kohrt B.A.* , Upadhaya N. , Luitel N.P. , Maharjan S.M. , Kaiser B.N. , Macfarlane E.K. , Khan N.
  • a Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • b Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, HealthNetTPO Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • c Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • d Department of Psychology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • e Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • f Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
  • g Trinity School of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

Abstract

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. © 2014 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Author Keywords

Mental disorders Education Developing countries world health authorship publishing

Index Keywords

education publication scientist writing Authorship systematic error developing country workshop mental health Developing Countries human Research Report mental health research Biomedical Research medical research international cooperation disaster mental disease Haiti health Humans health services research Review standards cultural psychiatry experience emergency care career planning global health medical literature research publishing Nepal teamwork
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84912131489&doi=10.1016%2fj.aogh.2014.04.007&partnerID=40&md5=8e2472ab651dd2d4534b7f02c407479b
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2014.04.007
ISSN: 22149996
Cited by: 10
Original Language: English