Developing a culturally appropriate branding for a social and emotional wellbeing intervention in an Aboriginal community

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-320
Author(s):  
Robert J. Donovan ◽  
Lesley Murray ◽  
Jolleen Hicks ◽  
Amberlee Nicholas ◽  
Julia Anwar-McHenry
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Social And Emotional Wellbeing

Co-developing a multi-behavioural mobile phone app to enhance Social and Emotional Wellbeing and reduce health risks among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women during pre-conception and pregnancy: development and usability study. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Bovill ◽  
Ratika Kumar ◽  
Nicole Ryan ◽  
Jessica Bennett ◽  
Gina La Hera Fuentes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Phase 3 ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Social And Emotional Wellbeing

BACKGROUND Improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal women and their babies is a primary focus to address health inequity in Australia. Interventions must be contextualised by the impacts on health that are a direct result of historical oppression, dispossession and ongoing racism since colonisation. Aboriginal women experience compromised social and emotional wellbeing including mental, cultural, spiritual wellbeing. Addressing social and emotional wellbeing coupled with behavioural risk factors would have a high potential to improve the health and wellbeing of mother and child. mHealth has been trialled in Aboriginal communities and appears to be a favourable method of intervention. Building on the requests from Aboriginal women we designed a multi-behavioural mobile phone app. OBJECTIVE This paper describes the development and pre-test of a prototype multi-behavioural change app MAMA-EMPOWER with Aboriginal women and communities in New South Wales, Australia. METHODS Mixed methods study design using the Center for eHealth Research and Disease Management Roadmap for designing eHealth technology’s three phases; phase one-contextual enquiry included stakeholder engagement and qualitative interviews with Aboriginal women, phase two- value specification included user-workshop with an Aboriginal researcher, community members and experts phase 3 co-design with Aboriginal researchers and community members, followed by a pre-test of the app with Aboriginal women, and feedback from qualitative interviews and the user-MARS survey tool. RESULTS Phase 1 conducted informal market interviews to establish community need. Engagement with stakeholders refined digital considerations and behaviour change wheel factors to embed in the app. Interviews with 8 Aboriginal women revealed 3 themes; current app use, desired app characteristics and implementation. Phase 2 workshop with 6 Aboriginal women raised 3 themes; engagement, caution with wording and visual content. Phase 3 engaged 16 Aboriginal women to trial the app on their phones, all content areas were accessed, u-MARS was completed by 5 women, the highest ratings were for information (mean score of 3.80 out of 5, SD=0.77) and aesthetics (mean score of 3.87 with SD of 0.74), while functionality, engagement and subjective quality had lower scores. Qualitative interviews revealed the acceptability of the app, however functionality was problematic. CONCLUSIONS Developing a mobile phone app, particularly in an Aboriginal community setting, requires extensive consultation, negotiation and design work. Using a strong theoretical foundation of behaviour change technique’s coupled with the consultative approach has added rigour to this process. The use of mobile phone apps to implement behavioural interventions in Aboriginal community settings is still a new area for investigation. In the next iteration of the app we aim to find better ways to personalise the content to women’s needs, then ensure full functionality before conducting a larger trial. We predict the process of development will be of interest to other health researchers and practitioners.

Children's social and emotional wellbeing in schools

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Watson ◽  
Carl Emery ◽  
Phil Bayliss ◽  
Margaret Boushel ◽  
Karen McInnes
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Social And Emotional Wellbeing

scholarly journals The Attention of Caregiver. An Intersdisciplinary Vision

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Esther Secanilla ◽  
María Bonjoch ◽  
Margarida Galindo ◽  
Laura Gros
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Active Observation ◽  
Admission Interviews ◽  
Social And Emotional Wellbeing

In a global approach to the attention of carers of older people with dementia living at the elder’s home, it is essential to promote their personal, social and emotional wellbeing as well as provide them with tools that improve their quality of life. With this goal we present the experience of CDD and Residencia de Horta, Barcelona. A documentary review of the file was made, covering the period between 2004 and 2010 to define the sample. For the analysis of the semistructured admission interviews, monitoring and mentoring, a research was made through the daily records. Other strategies used were fulfilment questionnaires as well as the validated questionnaire of caregiver’s burden (Zarit and Zarit, 1982). Likewise, there was a systematic active observation of the GAM group. The interviews were made to the caregivers who attended the GAM. It is proven that actions of prevention and monitoring as well as psycho-educational training designed for carers promotes the user’s staying at their home, improves their quality of life and their caregiver’s.

scholarly journals A scoping review about social and emotional wellbeing programs and services targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in Australia: understanding the principles guiding promising practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanshu Gupta ◽  
Noemi Tari-Keresztes ◽  
Donna Stephens ◽  
James A. Smith ◽  
Emrhan Sultan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Social And Emotional Wellbeing

Abstract Background Multiple culturally-oriented programs, services, and frameworks have emerged in recent decades to support the social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people in Australia. Although there are some common elements, principles, and methods, few attempts have been made to integrate them into a set of guidelines for policy and practice settings. This review aims to identify key practices adopted by programs and services that align with the principles of the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Mental Health and Social and Emotional Wellbeing 2017–2023. Methods A comprehensive review of electronic databases and organisational websites was conducted to retrieve studies of relevance. Twenty-seven publications were included in the review. Next, we identified promising practices through a collaborative review process. We then used the principles articulated in the above-mentioned framework as the basis to complete a framework analysis. This enabled us to explore the alignment between current scholarship about SEWB programs and services with respect to the principles of the framework. Results We found there was a strong alignment, with selected principles being effectively incorporated into most SEWB program and service delivery contexts. However, only one study incorporated all nine principles, using them as conceptual framework. Additionally, ‘capacity building’, ‘individual skill development’, and ‘development of maladaptive coping mechanisms’ were identified as common factors in SEWB program planning and delivery for Aboriginal people. Conclusion We argue the selective application of nationally agreed principles in SEWB programs and services, alongside a paucity of scholarship relating to promising practices in young people-oriented SEWB programs and services, are two areas that need the urgent attention of commissioners and service providers tasked with funding, planning, and implementing SEWB programs and services for Aboriginal people. Embedding robust participatory action research and evaluation approaches into the design of such services and programs will help to build the necessary evidence-base to achieve improved SEWB health outcomes among Aboriginal people, particularly young people with severe and complex mental health needs.

scholarly journals Indigenous Relationality: Women, Kinship and the Law

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudgeon ◽  
Bray
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Social And Emotional Wellbeing

Strong female governance has always been central to one of the world’s oldest existing culturally diverse, harmonious, sustainable, and democratic societies. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s governance of a country twice the size of Europe is based on complex laws which regulate relationships to country, family, community, culture and spirituality. These laws are passed down through generations and describe kinship systems which encompass sophisticated relations to the more-than-human. This article explores Indigenous kinship as an expression of relationality, culturally specific and complex Indigenous knowledge systems which are founded on a connection to the land. Although Indigenous Australian women’s kinships have been disrupted through dispossession from the lands they belong to, the forced removal of their children across generations, and the destruction of their culture, community and kinship networks, the survival of Indigenous women’s knowledge systems have supported the restoration of Indigenous relationality. The strengthening of Indigenous women’s kinship is explored as a source of social and emotional wellbeing and an emerging politics of environmental reproductive justice.

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