Researchers on the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s School London have launched a brand new free platform to permit individuals to find a whole bunch of longitudinal psychological well being datasets, in partnership with Wellcome, MQ Psychological Well being Analysis and lived expertise consultants.
The brand new Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets permits researchers, governments, funders and members of the general public to discover over 1,600 datasets utilizing a chosen search engine. The platform consists of options to visualise information sources on a map, examine a number of datasets, and apply filters to determine datasets most related to particular analysis questions.
It has potential to enhance our understanding of psychological well being by:
Making it simple for researchers to find longitudinal datasets from the world over to assist reply questions on psychological well being
Permitting funders to determine gaps in analysis to information useful resource allocation
Informing evidence-based coverage improvement and public well being monitoring
Making current datasets extra seen to advertise collaboration and scale back duplication of analysis
In whole, multiple billion individuals are represented throughout all 1,600 datasets. Datasets are from 186 nations throughout six continents, and round 25 per cent of them embrace a minimum of one low- and middle-income nation.
The platform accommodates details about pattern measurement, participant demographics, information sharing insurance policies, kind of knowledge collected, psychological well being subjects studied, and lived expertise professional involvement. Researchers are persevering with so as to add new datasets to the platform.
Professor Louise Arseneault, Principal Investigator and Professor of Developmental Psychology at King’s IoPPN, stated:
“We’re thrilled to launch the brand new Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets. Longitudinal analysis holds a lot potential for advancing our understanding of the event, development and remedy of psychological well being circumstances. By bringing collectively these datasets into one centralised platform, we hope the Atlas will develop into a broadly used instrument for researchers, funders and policymakers, enabling them to find and utilise this important information.”
The Atlas was launched at Wellcome on 22 January 2025. Principal Investigator, Professor Louise Arseneault shared the journey of constructing the Atlas and its purposes in analysis, adopted by a stay demonstration by Dr Bridget Bryan, Analysis Affiliate on the IoPPN. The occasion concluded with panel dialogue with researchers and lived expertise consultants.
