Engaging young people in the co-design of a brand and online platform for a public health organization

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
Cassandra Khoo ◽  
Stephen Reay ◽  
Eden Potter ◽  
Zoe Brownlie ◽  
Moeawa Tamanui-Fransen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Brand Strategy ◽  
District Health ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Youth Leaders ◽  
Public Health Organization ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Health Organization

This article explores how co-design was used to engage young people in the design of a new brand identity and online platform for the Auckland District Health Board’s Peer Sexuality Support Programme (PSSP). Unlike conventional branding practices that do not generally engage users as co-creators in the early discovery stages of the design process, in this research young people were brought into the design process as informants and co-designers. This drove both brand strategy and touchpoint design, positioning the brand to be better accepted by the young people involved in the programme. A series of discovery and evaluation co-design workshops, with a diverse range of PSSP youth leaders, offered game-like interactive activities and the opportunity for open discussions. Engaging young people in fun and meaningful ways helped them uncover and share insights that could only be possible by directly involving them in the design process. The outputs of this co-designed brand – FRANK – incorporated a full visual identity and a proposal for an online platform. The final brand design elicited strong positive responses from PSSP youth leaders, highlighting the importance of involving young people in the design of products and services that address issues affecting them.

Interdisciplinary Development of a Transdiagnostic Mobile App to Enhance Children’s Emotion Regulation: Sharing Insights and Lessons Learned (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Moltrecht ◽  
Praveetha Patalay ◽  
Holly Alice Bear ◽  
Jessica Deighton ◽  
Julian Edbrooke-Childs
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Young People ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Health Apps ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework

BACKGROUND Digital interventions, including mobile apps represent promising means to provide effective mental health support to young people. Despite the increased availability of mental health apps, there is a significant gap for this age group, especially for younger children. Research investigating the effectiveness and development process of child mental health apps is limited, and the field faces persistent issues in relation to low user up-take and engagement, which is assumed to be a result of lacking interdisciplinary approaches. OBJECTIVE We present the development and design process of a new mental health app for children that targets their emotion regulation abilities. We describe the creation of a new interdisciplinary development framework, to guide the design process, and explain how each activity informed different app features. METHODS The first two stages of the framework employed a variety of methods, including: 1) classroom observations, 2) public-engagement events with the target group (N=21), 3) synthesis of the existing evidence as part of a meta-analysis, 4) a series of co-design and participatory workshops with young users (N=33), clinicians (N=7), researchers (N=12), app developers (N=1) , designers (N=2), and lastly 5) testing of the first high-tech prototype (N=15). RESULTS For the interdisciplinary framework we drew on methods derived from the medical research council framework for complex interventions, the patient-clinician-framework and Druin’s cooperative inquiry. The classroom observations, public-engagement events, and synthesis of the existing evidence informed the first key pillars of the app and wireframes. Subsequently, a series of workshops shaped and reshaped the content and app features, including games, psychoeducational films, and practice modules. Based on the prototype testing sessions we made further adjustments to improve the app. CONCLUSIONS Although mobile apps could be highly suitable to support young people’s mental health on a wider scale, there is little guidance on how these interventions could be designed. The involvement of the different methods and especially the young users was very valuable. We hope that the interdisciplinary framework and multiple methods that we applied will be helpful to others who are also aiming to develop suitable apps for young people.

scholarly journals BLS ERC Certified Greek Providers’ Willingness to Perform CPR and Skill Retention During the Covid-19 Pandemic. A Survey of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology (WG CPR)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Latsios ◽  
Andreas Synetos ◽  
Marianna Leopoulou ◽  
Evaggelia Stamatopoulou ◽  
Panagiotis Koukopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Support ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
European Resuscitation Council ◽  
Skill Retention ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Public Health Organization ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
External Defibrillator

Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate a. the level of established knowledge regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during the Covid-19 pandemic era of certified Basic Life Support (BLS) providers and b. their attitude towards CPR, along with possible misconceptions regarding Covid-19. Methods: Certified BLS providers from courses held in Athens, Greece were asked to complete an electronic survey regarding their knowledge and behavioral changes on performing CPR on victims with confirmed or suspected Covid-19 infection. Their perception on BLS courses was also assessed. Answers were collected during June 2020. Results: Out of 5513 certified providers, 25.53% completed the survey. The majority (83.36%) would provide CPR to an arrest victim with possible or confirmed Covid-19 infection. Regarding the use of an automated external defibrillator, the majority thinks that it is equally safe as in the pre-Covid-19 period (58.24%). Older age (<0.001) and a lower level of education (p<0.001) made rescuers more willing to provide CPR. Exposure to the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) (p<0.001) and to a lesser degree to Greek National Public Health Organization (NPHO) guidelines was also correlated to a less negative attitude towards resuscitation, whereas time since the last BLS seminar had no such impact (p=0.18). All responders agree that training in CPR during Covid-19 remains necessary.Conclusion: Certified BLS providers maintain willingness to perform CPR in unresponsive victims even during the Covid-19 pandemic era. This attitude is reinforced by exposure to the updated CPR guidelines. Knowledge regarding Covid-19 CPR is satisfactory, with more training focused on the revised algorithms considered essential.

scholarly journals Guiding Principle of Innovation in a Multipurpose Public Health Organization

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Marcelino José Jorge ◽  
Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel ◽  
Frederico A. de Carvalho ◽  
Patrícia Santos Cavalheiro Silva
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Organization ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals The Session Wants and Need Outcome Measure: The Development of a Brief Outcome Measure for Single-Sessions of Web-Based Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago de Ossorno Garcia ◽  
Louisa Salhi ◽  
Aaron Sefi ◽  
Terry Hanley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Brief Interventions ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Single Session ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Mental Health Settings

Single-session, brief interventions in therapy for young people make up a large proportion of service provision, including in digital mental health settings. Current nomothetic mental health measures are not specifically designed to capture the benefit or ‘change’ directly related to these brief interventions. As a consequence, we set out to design an outcome measure to concretely demonstrate the value of single-session interventions. The Session Wants and Needs Outcome Measure (SWAN-OM) aims to capture in-session goals and focuses on being user-centric, elements critical to the success of single-session and brief interventions which typically are asset-based and solution-focused. We describe the 4-stage process that was followed to develop this measure: (I) classical item generation and development, (II) content and (III) face validity pilot testing, and (IV) a user-experience approach with young people using framework analysis. This final stage was critical to ensure the integration of this outcome tool into a web-based digital therapy setting, a context which adds another layer of design complexity to item and measure development. This iterative methodology was used to overcome the challenges encountered and to place the needs of the young people and service practitioners at the centre of the design process, thus ensuring measure usability. To end, we highlight the main lessons learnt from engaging in this design process. Specifically, the needs of a measure for single-session interventions are considered, before outlining the learning associated with integrating the measure into a digital mental health platform. Both of these areas are emerging fields and, as such, this study contributes to our understanding of how an idiographic patient outcome theory driven measure can be created for use in a web-based digital mental health therapy service.

The Great Terror as a Moral Panic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Young People ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Social Disorder ◽  
Youth Leaders ◽  
The People

During the Great Terror, youth faced suspicion not only for their connections with supposed enemies of the people but because of alleged acts of degeneracy like drinking. Thousands of young people found themselves accused of hooliganism, a malleable crime that encompassed various forms of social disorder. In the Komsomol, the arrest of youth leaders as Trotskyist degenerates impressed upon young communists that their social behavior was part of their political identity. The older cohort of Komsomol members, the pererostki, also fell under suspicion for subscribing to the old norms of youth activism. Among youth, the Great Terror became a moral panic that aimed to shape young people’s behaviour.

Music and violence: Working with youth to prevent violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Wölfl
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
World Health ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Emotional Level ◽  
Different Levels

The prevention of youth violence is one of the major challenges of our time. Based on important key concepts on youth violence from the report of the World Health Organization, opportunities are presented for music therapy with youth to prevent violence. As music in its various forms reaches a very large number of young people all around the world on an emotional level, it is important to note its special ability to promote aggressive emotions as well as to regulate these same emotions. Integrated with more mainstream approaches, music therapy can have preventive potential at different levels: in individual settings, group programmes, and community approaches. Different music therapy approaches for the challenges of violence prevention are presented and developmental tasks for the future are discussed.

scholarly journals Description of Disaster Forms Usage in Health Cluster in Lombok and Palu Earthquake

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s115-s115
Author(s):  
Madelina Ariani ◽  
Bella Donna
Keyword(s):  
Health Indicators ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
World Health ◽  
District Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Daily Report ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Central Sulawesi ◽  
Health Policymaking

Introduction:The effort of medical and health services distribution requires data. However, the data and information were ignored in an emergency situation. For improving the distribution of data and information, the Center of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) developed forms based on Health Crisis Response Guideline by Ministry of Health 2016 and the World Health Organization (WHO).Aim:Describing the implementation and development of forms based on Lombok and Central Sulawesi earthquake in 2018 for health cluster.Methods:The form contains (1) a volunteer registration form; (2) a monitoring potential outbreak disease form; (3) health problem in health cluster daily report form; (4) a chronological situation form. This will be implemented in health policymaking by the Sulawesi district health office (DHO) and will be regularly analyzed in every week.Results:North Lombok DHO, Central Sulawesi health office, and volunteers accepted these forms well. Periodically volunteers had reported their activity to DHO. All these reports contain many health indicators including environmental health. Reproductive health and health promotion. Implementation of this form in the other type of disaster in Indonesia is suggested.Discussion:First, these forms are important to attach to the guideline of health crisis response in order to be accessed by all DHO. Second, all forms are printed documents. It needs to develop into data input and analysis applications.

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