Evaluating the acceptability of a co-produced and co-delivered mental health public engagement festival: Mental Health Matters, Jakarta, Indonesia
Brooks, Helen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2157-0200, Irmansyah, Irmansyah, Susanti, Herni, Utomo, Bagus, Prawira, Benny, Iskandar, Livia, Colucci, Erminia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9714-477X, Keliat, Budi-Anna, James, Karen, Bee, Penny, Bell, Vicky and Lovell, Karina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8821-895X
(2019)
Evaluating the acceptability of a co-produced and co-delivered mental health public engagement festival: Mental Health Matters, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Research Involvement and Engagement, 5
(1)
, 25.
pp. 1-10.
ISSN 2056-7529
[Article]
(doi:10.1186/s40900-019-0161-3)
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Commentary |
| Keywords (uncontrolled): | Mental health, Public engagement, Research prioritisation, Patient and public involvement, Festival, Co-production |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology |
| Item ID: | 27525 |
| Notes on copyright: | © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
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| Depositing User: | Erminia Colucci |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2019 17:39 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2022 10:33 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/27525 |
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