CHiMES Collaborative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
CHiMES Collaborative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
BMJ Open. 2023 Apr 17;13(4):e068289. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068289.
Creative arts practice can enhance the depth and quality of mental health research by capturing and foregrounding participants' lived experience. Creative methods are emotionally activating and promote multiple perspectives, tolerating ambiguities and uncertainties, which are shared and even celebrated.
Methods such as photovoice use imagery to elucidate narratives that are not easily captured by more traditional interview-based research techniques. However, the use of creative methods and participatory research remains novel as there is little guidance of how to navigate conceptual, practical, and analytical challenges.
This paper considers these challenges, and puts forward practical and theory informed recommendations, using as study of photovoice methods for investigating ethnic inequalities in the use of the mental health act (Co-Pact) as a case study.
通过捕捉和凸显参与者的生活体验，创意艺术实践可以提高心理健康研究的深度和质量。创意方法具有情感刺激性，可以促进多种观点，容忍模糊性和不确定性，这些观点可以被分享甚至庆祝。
诸如摄影等方法利用图像来阐明那些不容易通过更传统的基于访谈的研究技术捕捉到的叙述。然而，由于如何应对概念、实践和分析方面的挑战的指导很少，因此创造性方法和参与式研究的使用仍然是新颖的。
本文考虑了这些挑战，并提出了实用和理论上的建议，使用了一项以摄影方法研究精神卫生法使用中的种族不平等（Co-Pact）的研究作为案例研究。
