TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the acceptability of a co-produced and co-delivered mental health public engagement festival
T2 - Mental Health Matters, Jakarta, Indonesia
AU - Brooks, Helen
AU - Irmansyah, Irmansyah
AU - Susanti, Herni
AU - Utomo, Bagus
AU - Prawira, Benny
AU - Iskandar, Livia
AU - Colucci, Erminia
AU - Keliat, Budi Anna
AU - James, Karen
AU - Bee, Penny
AU - Bell, Vicky
AU - Lovell, Karina
N1 - Funding Information:
HB is the PI on the Wellcome Trust ISSF start-up grant and Co-Prinicpal Investigator on the MRC Health Systems Research Initiative. She contributed to the organisation of the festival, facilitated events and supported the analysis of the evaluation data and led the drafting of the manuscript. II was the chair of the organising committee, contributed to the organisation of the festival, facilitated events and commented on draft versions of manuscripts. HS and BK led the organisation of the festival within Universitas Indonesia, facilitated events and commented on draft versions of manuscripts. BU, BP and LI were on the organising committee for the festival, facilitated events and commented on draft versions of manuscript. EC and KL contributed to the organisation of the festival, attended and facilitated events as well as commenting on draft versions of the manuscript. PB and KJ contributed to the early development of the festival and commented on draft versions of the manuscript. VB entered the evaluation data into SPSS and commented on draft version of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding Information:
The festival was supported by a Wellcome Trust ISSF start-up funding grant through the University of Liverpool, by the MRC Health Systems Research Initiative (MR/R003386/1), by the Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia, the Ministry of Health, Indonesia and the voluntary and community organisations who organised and contributed to the festival. Erminia Colucci’s time was funded through an ESRC GCRF grant.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s).
PY - 2019/9/6
Y1 - 2019/9/6
N2 - Background: Public engagement events are an important early strategy in developing a meaningful research agenda, which is more impactful and beneficial to the population. Evidence indicates the potential of such activities to promote mental health literacy. However, this has not yet been explored in Indonesia. Aim: This paper describes a mental health public engagement festival carried out in Indonesia in November 2018 and uses evaluation data to consider the acceptability and use of such activities in Indonesia in the future. Method: Evaluation data was collected from 324 of the 737 people who attended a six-day mental health festival comprising 18 events including public lectures, film screenings, arts activities, exercise classes and panel discussions. Attendees were asked to evaluate the festival in terms of its quality, benefits and areas for improvement. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the evaluation data. 87 service users, carers, academics and professionals also engaged in a research prioritisation exercise to collaboratively determine mental health research priorities for Indonesia. Results: Participants evaluated the festival extremely positively with a significant majority (92%) rating the quality of the festival as good or excellent. Attendees reported an increase in their understanding of mental health issues and identified intended behaviour change including an increased propensity for future engagement with mental health research. Key strengths of the festival included the central role of patients, carers and the local community in the design and delivery of the festival which promoted emotional engagement and development of shared understanding and the use of international experts which in attendees' opinion further enhanced the credibility of festival activities. Conclusion: This manuscript indicates that a co-produced mental health public engagement festival is a potentially acceptable way to increase awareness of mental health in Indonesian populations. Future festivals should be larger in scope and target men, older people and the general public to maximise benefit and incorporate rigorous evaluation of effectiveness.
AB - Background: Public engagement events are an important early strategy in developing a meaningful research agenda, which is more impactful and beneficial to the population. Evidence indicates the potential of such activities to promote mental health literacy. However, this has not yet been explored in Indonesia. Aim: This paper describes a mental health public engagement festival carried out in Indonesia in November 2018 and uses evaluation data to consider the acceptability and use of such activities in Indonesia in the future. Method: Evaluation data was collected from 324 of the 737 people who attended a six-day mental health festival comprising 18 events including public lectures, film screenings, arts activities, exercise classes and panel discussions. Attendees were asked to evaluate the festival in terms of its quality, benefits and areas for improvement. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the evaluation data. 87 service users, carers, academics and professionals also engaged in a research prioritisation exercise to collaboratively determine mental health research priorities for Indonesia. Results: Participants evaluated the festival extremely positively with a significant majority (92%) rating the quality of the festival as good or excellent. Attendees reported an increase in their understanding of mental health issues and identified intended behaviour change including an increased propensity for future engagement with mental health research. Key strengths of the festival included the central role of patients, carers and the local community in the design and delivery of the festival which promoted emotional engagement and development of shared understanding and the use of international experts which in attendees' opinion further enhanced the credibility of festival activities. Conclusion: This manuscript indicates that a co-produced mental health public engagement festival is a potentially acceptable way to increase awareness of mental health in Indonesian populations. Future festivals should be larger in scope and target men, older people and the general public to maximise benefit and incorporate rigorous evaluation of effectiveness.
KW - Co-production
KW - Festival
KW - Mental health
KW - Patient and public involvement
KW - Public engagement
KW - Research prioritisation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072018870&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s40900-019-0161-3
DO - 10.1186/s40900-019-0161-3
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85072018870
SN - 2056-7529
VL - 5
JO - Research Involvement and Engagement
JF - Research Involvement and Engagement
IS - 1
M1 - 25
ER -