Students' mental health literacy practices in the management of chronic mental health conditions

学生在慢性心理健康状况管理中的心理健康素养实践

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X005496/1
负责人：
Emily Peach
金额：
$ 11.87万
依托单位：
Lancaster University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX005496%2F1
关键词：
Students mental health literacy practices

项目摘要

The broad aim of my Fellowship would be to maximise the impact of my doctoral thesis work on student mental health. Ensuring maximum impact of my thesis is vital because mental health has been a growing concern in universities in both the UK and globally, as well as in society more generally. As interest in mental health, and how people can best be supported, has grown, the concept of mental health literacy has become a focus for researchers, public health officials, mental health support practitioners, and student support services. My thesis was focussed on the experiences of students with mental health conditions, and particularly how they engaged with different texts and activities involving reading and writing as part of navigating support systems, managing their mental health, and engaging with their studies. In this work, I was able to capture detailed accounts of the students' complex experiences with literacy as part of their mental health. This was possible because of the specific approach to mental health literacy I took, where the focus was on what the students actually did with literacy in real situations, rather than what they should do or a measurement of their knowledge or abilities as done by other researchers. This approach was complemented by the use of innovative methods in the project, with remote video-calling interviews used to find out about the students' experiences. The students' accounts and my analysis showed that mental health literacy played an important role in how students got recognition of their mental health condition from different institutions, how they accessed support and treatment and then participated in that support or treatment and how they cared for and managed their own mental health. Thus, my thesis represented a contribution to how we understand mental health literacy as a concept and how students use mental health literacy practices to successfully cope with mental health conditions whilst at university.My research is of great relevance for academic and non-academic audiences. The Fellowship would allow me to maximise the impact of this work in several ways. Firstly, it would enable me to communicate the findings, both conceptual and practical, to a range of academic audiences through publications aimed at researchers working in disciplines including mental health, public health, counselling, higher education, and applied linguistics, as well as engagement with existing research networks focussed on student mental health. Secondly, it would give me the opportunity to develop a series of workshops based on the key findings and practical implications aimed at different audiences, including student support practitioners in higher education, teaching and professional services staff in academic departments, and friends and family of students with mental health conditions. Finally, it would allow me to write research reports designed for non-specialist audiences to disseminate the findings and implications both within the fields of Literacy Studies and Applied Linguistics and more widely to the general non-academic audience. The Fellowship would also give me the opportunity to expand on the work that was possible during my doctoral study. In this study, I worked with 11 student participants as the intensity of the methods meant a larger number of participants would not have been practical. I plan to make use of the Postdoctoral Fellowship to explore the key findings from my thesis with a larger and more diverse group of students through both a survey and a series of focus groups. This will allow me to confirm and refine the thesis findings. The Fellowship would further provide me with the chance to enhance my research skills through attending relevant training courses and develop a wider interdisciplinary professional network. The development afforded by the Fellowship in both of these areas would help strengthen my profile as an academic with the aim of securing future positions.

我的奖学金的主要目标是最大限度地发挥我的博士论文工作对学生心理健康的影响。确保我的论文产生最大影响至关重要，因为心理健康已成为英国和全球大学以及整个社会日益关注的问题。随着人们对心理健康以及如何最好地支持人们的兴趣不断增长，心理健康素养的概念已成为研究人员、公共卫生官员、心理健康支持从业者和学生支持服务的焦点。我的论文重点关注有心理健康问题的学生的经历，特别是他们如何参与不同的文本和活动，包括阅读和写作，作为导航支持系统的一部分，管理他们的心理健康，并参与他们的学习。在这项工作中，我能够详细记录学生在识字方面的复杂经历，作为他们心理健康的一部分。这是可能的，因为我采取了心理健康素养的具体方法，重点是学生在真实情况下在素养方面实际做了什么，而不是他们应该做什么或像其他研究人员那样衡量他们的知识或能力。项目中使用的创新方法补充了这种方法，通过远程视频通话来了解学生的经历。学生的叙述和我的分析表明，心理健康素养在学生如何从不同机构认识到他们的心理健康状况、他们如何获得支持和治疗然后参与支持或治疗以及他们如何照顾和照顾方面发挥着重要作用。管理自己的心理健康。因此，我的论文对我们如何理解心理健康素养这一概念以及学生如何在大学期间利用心理健康素养实践成功应对心理健康状况做出了贡献。我的研究对于学术和非学术受众具有重要意义。该奖学金将使我能够通过多种方式最大限度地发挥这项工作的影响。首先，它将使我能够通过针对心理健康、公共卫生、咨询、高等教育和应用语言学以及参与等学科的研究人员的出版物，向一系列学术受众传达概念性和实践性的研究结果现有的研究网络专注于学生心理健康。其次，这将使我有机会根据主要研究结果和针对不同受众的实际影响举办一系列研讨会，包括高等教育中的学生支持从业人员、学术部门的教学和专业服务人员以及学生的朋友和家人有心理健康状况。最后，它将使我能够撰写为非专业受众设计的研究报告，以在读写能力研究和应用语言学领域以及更广泛地向普通非学术受众传播研究结果和含义。该奖学金还让我有机会扩展我的博士学习期间可能开展的工作。在这项研究中，我与 11 名学生参与者一起工作，因为方法的强度意味着更多的参与者是不切实际的。我计划利用博士后奖学金，通过调查和一系列焦点小组与更多、更多样化的学生群体一起探索我论文的主要发现。这将使我能够确认和完善论文的研究结果。该奖学金将进一步为我提供通过参加相关培训课程来提高我的研究技能并发展更广泛的跨学科专业网络的机会。奖学金在这两个领域所提供的发展将有助于增强我作为学者的形象，以确保未来的职位。