Reports of increasing levels of climate change related

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the abstract and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2015 and 2026, spanning 8 journals. Those papers have been cited 182 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Prevalence and determinants of mental health related to climate change in Australia (2022) · Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry · cited 86× · doi

  While studies consistently show the majority of Australians are very concerned about the impacts of climate change, there is limited evidence from nation-wide research linking climate change with mental health burden in sub-populations.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: climate change consistently show majority australians concerned impacts there limited evidence nation wide linking mental
• Climate, Environmental Health Vulnerability, and Physical Planning (2015) · Journal of Planning Literature · cited 7× · doi

  Future research should consider physical environment, socioeconomic and political characteristics, and interactions with health effects, to present a comprehensive understanding of the health effects of climate change.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: health effects future consider physical environment socioeconomic political characteristics interactions present comprehensive understanding climate change
• Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Children’s Mental Health (2022) · Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at Risk · cited 1× · doi

  However, there are still gaps in understanding the links between climate change, air pollution and mental health, especially in children and adolescents, who are particularly at-risk.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: there still gaps understanding links climate change pollution mental health especially children adolescents particularly risk
• Integrating mental health aspects into disaster and climate risk management strategies: policy lessons from cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe (2026) · Frontiers in Human Dynamics · doi

  Introduction Climate-related disasters increasingly threaten mental well-being, yet mental health remains insufficiently integrated into disaster risk reduction and climate change response strategies in many low- and middle-income countries, including Zimbabwe.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: climate mental introduction related disasters increasingly threaten well health remains insufficiently integrated disaster risk reduction
• Climate Change and Substance-Use Behaviors: A Risk-Pathways Framework (2022) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · cited 50× · doi

  Climate change is undermining the mental and physical health of global populations, but the question of how it is affecting substance-use behaviors has not been systematically examined.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: climate change undermining mental physical health global populations question affecting substance behaviors systematically examined
• Informing future directions for climate anxiety interventions: a mixed-method study of professional perspectives (2024) · Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education · cited 23× · doi

  Abstract Despite reports of increasing levels of climate change related distress, there remains limited evidence regarding effective interventions for individuals and communities.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: abstract despite reports increasing levels climate change related distress there remains limited evidence regarding effective
• Emotion, Coping, and Climate Change in Island Nations: Implications for Environmental Justice (2017) · Environmental Justice · cited 15× · doi

  This research demonstrates how focusing on emotional responses within communities affected by climate change brings important and under-explored dimensions of climate-related environmental injustice into sharp relief.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: climate demonstrates focusing emotional responses within communities affected change brings important explored dimensions related environmental
• Climate change and the collective: understanding climate change through the lens of collective trauma and ecological systems theory (2026) · Frontiers in Conservation Science · doi

  Further research is needed to understand the collective impacts of climate change on mental health and wellbeing. Studies should examine the effectiveness of interventions at multiple levels (individual, family, community, society) in addressing the collective impacts of climate change. Research should investigate the role of intersectionality in understanding the collective impacts of climate change.

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 4/5
  Keywords: further research needed understand collective impacts climate change

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