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Mental health promotion in the Internet age: a consultation with Australian young people to inform the design of an online mindfulness training programme
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Monshat, K.,Vella-Brodrick, D.,Burns, J.,Herrman, H.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Oxford University Press
- 출판년도2012
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Health Promotion International
- 발행사항Vol.27No.2[2012]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN0957-4824
- 소개/요약Mindfulness training (MT) has been shown to lead to significant improvements in psychological distress and emotion regulation skills. The Internet has many advantages as a medium for building emotional skills in young people. The aim of this study was to involve young people in designing an online MT programme. A draft programme was initially designed based on a review of the literature and an established face-to-face programme for medical students. Twenty young people were then recruited through online advertising and 13 (age 16-26) interviewed. They were asked to comment on how useful, easy to use and enjoyable they found the proposed programme and how the draft version and its planned evaluation strategy could be improved. Interviewee responses were independently processed by two of the authors within a qualitative thematic analysis paradigm. The results showed that young people were eager to engage with the design of this health promotion programme and provided valuable input. All interviewees believed that young people would find the programme desirable. They provided a variety of suggestions about how training structure and content could be improved, how best it could be evaluated and how young people could be encouraged to engage with and complete the programme. It thus appears that online MT is a feasible mental health promotion strategy for young people and that it can be evaluated in a controlled trial. The result of this consultation process was the Mindful Awareness Training and Education (MATE) programme, which has been detailed.
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