School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
PLoS One. 2020 Dec 3;15(12):e0243284. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243284. eCollection 2020.
Participation in creative activities has been linked with positive outcomes for people with mental illness. This longitudinal qualitative study is a one-year follow-up of eight mental health consumers who participated in a series of creative workshops in Brisbane, Australia that aimed to increase participants' capacity and skills in sharing their stories of recovery with others. It also sought to understand successful factors of the creative workshops to inform future workshops. Semi-structured interviews gathered information regarding participants' memories of the workshops and how they had shared their stories with others over the preceding 12 months. Interpretative phenomenological analysis identified that participants' enjoyed being engaged in a range of creative mediums in a group setting; that peer mentor support was highly valued; and that participants' recovery stories had become more positive and were shared more often and openly with others. Overall, participation in the creative workshops had long-lasting benefits for participants with respect to improved confidence and understanding about their illness. Future creative workshops should consider the inclusion of peer mentors with lived experience as a support for participants to reauthor their recovery story.
参与创造性活动与精神疾病患者的积极结果有关。本纵向定性研究是对澳大利亚布里斯班的八名精神健康消费者参与一系列创意工作坊的为期一年的随访，目的是提高参与者与他人分享康复故事的能力和技能。它还旨在了解创意工作坊的成功因素，以为未来的工作坊提供信息。半结构化访谈收集了有关参与者对工作坊的记忆以及他们在过去 12 个月中如何与他人分享故事的信息。解释性现象学分析表明，参与者喜欢在小组环境中参与各种创造性媒介；同伴导师的支持受到高度重视；并且参与者的康复故事变得更加积极，并且更频繁、更公开地与他人分享。总的来说，参与创意工作坊对参与者具有持久的益处，可以提高他们对疾病的信心和理解。未来的创意工作坊应考虑纳入具有生活经验的同伴导师作为对参与者的支持，以重新撰写他们的康复故事。
