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Lived experience should be centered in future mental health research, say people with mental health conditions and their families and carers in nationwide Australian survey

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Lived experience should be centered in future mental health research, say people with mental health conditions and their families and carers in nationwide Australian survey

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This piece was inspired by the Alive National Centre's Annual Symposium 2024 Holistic Formations and including themes from dadirri (da-did-ee) meaning deep listening in the Ngan'gikurunggurr and Ngen'giwumirri languages of the Aboriginal peoples of the Daly River region (Northern Territory, Australia). Permission to listen with dadirri was sought from Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Foundation by the ALIVE National.

 

Deep listening and the colours that lie in our interconnectedness; colours only made possible by our different lived experiences. Even when we think we are isolated (blue), we are part of a larger strands and formations that make up the colourful big picture. The 'Kaleidoscope' layering of the piece hints at the presence of dimensions - nothing is as it flatly appears -- for example we can 'zoom' in and out of 'scale' to uncover new ways of seeing and doing.

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Credit: Julia Palfreyman, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Lived experience should be centered in future mental health research, say people with mental health conditions and their families and carers in nationwide Australian survey.

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000010

Article Title: Experience is central and connections matter: A Leximancer analysis of the research priorities of people with lived experience of mental health issues in Australia

Author Countries: Australia

Funding: The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation is supported by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT2002047) awarded to VJP. The funding body played no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.

Journal

PLOS Mental Health

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmen.0000010

Method of Research

Survey

Subject of Research

People

Article Title

Experience is central and connections matter: A Leximancer analysis of the research priorities of people with lived experience of mental health issues in Australia

Article Publication Date

4-Jun-2024

COI Statement

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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