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From Digital Mental Health to Digital Social and Emotional Wellbeing: How Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Research Influenced the Australian Government’s Digital Mental Health Agenda
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 9757, p 9757 (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 18
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper describes the first six years of a government-initiated project to train Indigenous health professionals in digital mental health (d-MH). It illustrates how community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods were used to enable this “top-down” project to be transformed into a ‘ground-up’ community-guided process<br />and how, in turn, the guidance from the local Indigenous community partners went on to influence the national government’s d-MH agenda. The CBPR partnership between five community partners and a university rural health department is described, with illustrations of how CBPR harnessed the community’s voice in making the project relevant to their wellbeing needs. The local Indigenous community’s involvement led to a number of unexpected outcomes, which impacted locally and nationally. At an early stage, the conceptual framework of the project was changed from d-MH to the culturally-relevant Indigenous framework of digital social and emotional wellbeing (d-SEWB). This led to a significant expansion of the range and type of digital resources<br />and to other notable outcomes such as successful advocacy for an Aboriginal-specific online therapy program and for a dedicated “one-stop-shop” d-SEWB website, Wellmob, which was funded by the Australian government in 2019–2021. Some of the implications of this project for future Indigenous CBPR projects are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Indigenous Australians
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Participatory action research
Community-based participatory research
Article
Indigenous
Health Services, Indigenous
Humans
Sociology
community-based participatory research
Government
community partnerships
business.industry
digital mental health
Rural health
Australia
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Public relations
Mental health
Mental Health
digital social and emotional wellbeing
Indigenous community engagement
General partnership
Medicine
The Conceptual Framework
business
First Nations research
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16617827 and 16604601
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 9757
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e35d10e89af74ed2e5fcb4ec9412159e