De-tabooing depression and anxiety: Mental health communication in old age

消除抑郁和焦虑的禁忌：老年心理健康沟通

• 批准号: DP210101197
• 负责人: Prof Kate Burridge
• 金额: $ 14.34万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP210101197
• 关键词: De; tabooing; depression; anxiety; Mental

This project aims to uncover how older Australians talk about and understand depression and anxiety, and it seeks to raise awareness of these debilitating conditions via new media. There has been much medical research in this area, and while language has been identified as highly relevant for recovery, little is known of how people express their experiences around mental well-being. The research gap is even wider for the worst affected in the population — older adults. These illnesses are shrouded in taboo, and symptoms often go undetected. The expected outcomes of the project are improved communication about mental well-being and the celebration of the lives and stories of older Australians — an integral but vulnerable segment of society.

该项目旨在揭示澳大利亚老年人如何谈论和理解抑郁症和焦虑症，并寻求通过新媒体提高对这些令人衰弱的疾病的认识。在这方面已经有很多医学研究，虽然语言被认为与恢复高度相关，但人们对如何表达他们在心理健康方面的经历知之甚少。对于受影响最严重的人群--老年人，研究差距甚至更大。这些疾病被禁忌所笼罩，症状往往未被发现。该项目的预期成果是改善关于心理健康的沟通，以及庆祝澳大利亚老年人的生活和故事-老年人是社会中不可分割但又脆弱的一部分。