KEEP ON KEEPING ON: Follow-On to Building Resilience by developing arts-based resources to reduce young people's depression and anxiety (MR/S03580X/1)

继续坚持：通过开发基于艺术的资源来减少年轻人的抑郁和焦虑，从而增强韧性（MR/S03580X/1）

• 批准号: AH/X004708/1
• 负责人: Paul Heritage
• 金额: $ 10.27万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX004708%2F1
• 关键词: KEEP; KEEPING; Follow; Building; Resilience

Despite its Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (2013), the WHO reported in 2020 on the "worldwide failure to provide people with the mental health services they need, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting a growing need for mental health support" (WHO 2020). There is massive inequality related to the allocation of mental health resources in high- and low-income countries; due to the scarcity of financial and human resources, young people in Latin America rarely receive formal treatment for depression and/or anxiety (Rathod et al. 2017). However, despite the accumulated and ongoing adversity, and the lack of formal mental health care, 50-60% of young people in Latin America experience symptomatic recovery within one year (Stapinski et al. 2013, March et al. 2004).This Follow-On arises from a unique opportunity to bring OLA's ('Building Resilience' MR/S03580X/1) collaborative research on depression and anxiety amongst young people living in urban areas of Bogotá (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Lima (Peru) to new audiences, using art and technology. For over two years, medical researchers in the UK and Latin America have worked together with arts organisations and young people to explore ways that participatory arts practices can usefully be understood as a resource that can support young people to build resilience and overcome depression and anxiety, specifically in contexts where accessing mental health services are neither a practical option nor a priority. The findings to date demonstrate that young people commonly report music, painting, drawing, dance and creative writing as being art forms/activities/processes that strengthen their relationships, affirm their sense of identity and build connections to social support systems and identities. An increased sense of political agency, an opportunity for psycho-social exploration, the promotion of values-based engagement and the development of rich artistic expression emerged as strong factors for participants in the workshops in Bogotá, Lima and Buenos Aires, which revealed the complexity of how the arts build mental health resilience for young people. It is now crucial that the voices and experiences of young people, the ultimate beneficiaries of initiatives, take a central role in the development and implementation of policies, interventions and activities to improve their mental health. Collaboration with young people, arts organisations and policy-makers is at the centre of this project; a response to our partners' desire to continue to use arts-based methods to foreground their data and stories with their own wider communities, local governments, national authorities and international networks. Specifically, this Follow-On project places young people centre stage so that they have the necessary skills to advocate for and influence policy discussions about their mental health resilience and recovery. Young Ambassadors (16-24 year olds) with a history of activism will engage with the OLA research, and design, curate and facilitate creative conversations with policy-makers, ensuring that their urgent and consequential discoveries impact the development of mental health services. The programme will also bring together a network of partners, young people, arts organisations, stakeholders and policymakers from across Latin America, to develop a practical toolkit of arts-based mental health resources to share across the region and beyond. Young Ambassadors and artists from partner organisations will also co-produce public installations in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, and online, which, alongside a bilingual communications campaign, will engage diverse local and international audiences with the original research findings about arts and young people's mental health.

尽管有《综合精神卫生行动计划》（2013年），但世卫组织于2020年报告称，“在COVID-19大流行凸显对精神卫生支持的需求日益增长之际，全球未能为人们提供所需的精神卫生服务”（世卫组织2020年）。在高收入和低收入国家，心理健康资源的分配存在巨大的不平等;由于财力和人力资源的稀缺，拉丁美洲的年轻人很少接受抑郁症和/或焦虑症的正式治疗（Rathod et al. 2017）。然而，尽管逆境不断积累和持续，而且缺乏正式的精神卫生保健，但拉丁美洲50-60%的年轻人在一年内经历了症状恢复（Stapinski等人，2013年，这一后续行动源于一个独特的机会，使奥拉的（“建设复原力”MR/S 03580 X/1）利用艺术和技术，向新的受众传播关于生活在博戈塔（哥伦比亚）、布宜诺斯艾利斯（阿根廷）和利马（秘鲁）城市地区的年轻人抑郁和焦虑的合作研究。两年多来，英国和拉丁美洲的医学研究人员与艺术组织和年轻人合作，探索如何将参与式艺术实践有效地理解为一种资源，可以支持年轻人建立弹性并克服抑郁和焦虑，特别是在获得心理健康服务既不是一个实际选择也不是优先事项的情况下。迄今为止的调查结果表明，青年人普遍认为音乐、绘画、素描、舞蹈和创意写作是加强他们的关系、确认他们的身份感并与社会支持系统和身份建立联系的艺术形式/活动/过程。对博戈塔、利马和布宜诺斯艾利斯讲习班的参与者来说，政治能动性的增强、心理社会探索的机会、促进基于价值观的参与和丰富的艺术表达的发展成为强有力的因素，这些讲习班揭示了艺术如何为年轻人建立心理健康复原力的复杂性。现在至关重要的是，青年人是各项举措的最终受益者，他们的声音和经验在制定和执行改善其心理健康的政策、干预措施和活动方面发挥核心作用。与年轻人，艺术组织和政策制定者的合作是这个项目的核心;我们的合作伙伴希望继续使用基于艺术的方法，将他们的数据和故事与他们自己更广泛的社区，地方政府，国家当局和国际网络联系起来。具体而言，这个后续项目将青年人置于中心舞台，使他们具备必要的技能，以倡导和影响有关其心理健康复原力和恢复的政策讨论。具有行动主义历史的青年大使（16-24奥尔兹）将参与奥拉研究，设计，策划和促进与政策制定者的创造性对话，确保他们的紧急和重大发现影响精神卫生服务的发展。该计划还将汇集来自拉丁美洲的合作伙伴，年轻人，艺术组织，利益相关者和政策制定者的网络，以开发一个实用的基于艺术的心理健康资源工具包，在整个地区和其他地区共享。来自合作组织的青年大使和艺术家还将在波哥大、布宜诺斯艾利斯、利马和网上共同制作公共装置，与双语交流活动一起，将艺术和青年心理健康的原始研究成果吸引不同的当地和国际观众。