Jackson Angela M
Patient Involvement Worker, Midlothian Local Health Care Co-operative, Dalkeith Medical Centre, Dalkeith, Midlothian, UK.
Health Expect. 2003 Dec;6(4):342-51. doi: 10.1046/j.1369-7625.2003.00233.x.
The project aims were to enable young people to contribute their views about health services, to encourage professionals and policy makers to listen to the young people and to stimulate action to address the issues raised.
Peer interviews were undertaken by a team of five young people to identify the experience and views of young people of various ages about health services. Drama workshop sessions were conducted with 10-15 young people, encompassing initial issue-identifying activities and group discussion about their own experience of, and views about health services, followed by role-play and improvisation to construct drama scenarios about the issues gathered from the interviews and discussions.
Twenty young people aged 12-16 years from the Mayfield and Gorebridge areas of Midlothian were recruited from Newbattle Community High school. The project was conducted as a voluntary after-school activity for 12 weeks.
A drama was constructed from research conducted by young people into the experiences and views of their peer group about health services. A cast of young people performed the drama to an invited audience of 30 health and education professionals and held a post-performance question and answer session with the audience to explore the issues raised. The drama engendered a number of practical outcomes related to improving the usage and experience of health services of young people.
Drama can offer a means to encourage participation, facilitate participants' self-expression and explore health/health service themes and issues. In conjunction with conventional techniques such as interviews and group discussions, a drama project can also be used to communicate the experience, views and needs of the wider client group to service providers and planners. Such initiatives can generate outcomes to improve service users' experience of health services.
该项目旨在让年轻人能够对医疗服务发表自己的看法，鼓励专业人员和政策制定者倾听年轻人的意见，并促使采取行动解决所提出的问题。
由五名年轻人组成的团队进行了同伴访谈，以确定不同年龄段年轻人对医疗服务的体验和看法。与10至15名年轻人开展了戏剧工作坊活动，包括初步的问题识别活动以及关于他们自身对医疗服务的体验和看法的小组讨论，随后进行角色扮演和即兴创作，以构建有关从访谈和讨论中收集到的问题的戏剧场景。
从米德洛锡安郡梅菲尔德和戈尔布里奇地区的纽巴特尔社区高中招募了20名年龄在12至16岁之间的年轻人。该项目作为一项自愿的课后活动进行了12周。
根据年轻人对其同龄人群体在医疗服务方面的体验和看法所开展的研究创作了一部戏剧。一群年轻人为30名受邀的健康和教育专业人员表演了这部戏剧，并在表演后与观众进行了问答环节，以探讨所提出的问题。这部戏剧产生了一些与改善年轻人对医疗服务的使用和体验相关的实际成果。
戏剧可以提供一种鼓励参与、促进参与者自我表达以及探索健康/医疗服务主题和问题的方式。与访谈和小组讨论等传统技术相结合，戏剧项目还可用于向服务提供者和规划者传达更广泛客户群体的体验、观点和需求。此类举措能够产生改善服务使用者医疗服务体验的成果。
