An engaged approach to exploring issues around poverty and mental health: A reflective evaluation of the research process from researchers and community partners involved in the DeStress study.
engagement
health inequalities
health policy
mental health
patient and public involvement
poverty
research design
socio-economic factors
Journal
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy
ISSN: 1369-7625
Titre abrégé: Health Expect
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9815926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2021
05 2021
Historique:
revised:
03
04
2020
received:
31
07
2019
accepted:
04
04
2020
pubmed:
26
5
2020
medline:
19
8
2021
entrez:
26
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Involving patients, service users, carers and members of the public in research has been part of health policy and practice in the UK for the last 15 years. However, low-income communities tend to remain marginalized from the co-design and delivery of mental health research, perpetuating the potential for health inequalities. Greater understanding is therefore needed on how to meaningfully engage low-income communities in mental health research. To explore and articulate whether and how an engaged research approach facilitated knowledge coproduction relating to poverty and mental distress. A reflective evaluation of community and researcher engagement in the DeStress study that took place in two low-income areas of South-west England. Reflective evaluation by the authors through on-going feedback, a focus group and first-person writing and discussion on experiences of working with the DeStress project, and how knowledge coproduction was influenced by an engaged research approach. An engaged research approach influenced the process and delivery of the DeStress project, creating a space where community partners felt empowered to coproduce knowledge relating to poverty-related mental distress, treatment and the training of health professionals that would otherwise have been missed. We examine motivations for involvement, factors sustaining engagement, how coproduction influenced research analysis, findings and dissemination of outputs, and what involvement meant for different stakeholders. Engaged research supported the coproduction of knowledge in mental health research with low-income communities which led to multiple impacts.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Involving patients, service users, carers and members of the public in research has been part of health policy and practice in the UK for the last 15 years. However, low-income communities tend to remain marginalized from the co-design and delivery of mental health research, perpetuating the potential for health inequalities. Greater understanding is therefore needed on how to meaningfully engage low-income communities in mental health research.
OBJECTIVES
To explore and articulate whether and how an engaged research approach facilitated knowledge coproduction relating to poverty and mental distress.
SETTING
A reflective evaluation of community and researcher engagement in the DeStress study that took place in two low-income areas of South-west England.
DESIGN
Reflective evaluation by the authors through on-going feedback, a focus group and first-person writing and discussion on experiences of working with the DeStress project, and how knowledge coproduction was influenced by an engaged research approach.
RESULTS
An engaged research approach influenced the process and delivery of the DeStress project, creating a space where community partners felt empowered to coproduce knowledge relating to poverty-related mental distress, treatment and the training of health professionals that would otherwise have been missed. We examine motivations for involvement, factors sustaining engagement, how coproduction influenced research analysis, findings and dissemination of outputs, and what involvement meant for different stakeholders.
CONCLUSION
Engaged research supported the coproduction of knowledge in mental health research with low-income communities which led to multiple impacts.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32449304
doi: 10.1111/hex.13065
pmc: PMC8137483
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
113-121Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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