Health Building Music Video V1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Co-Creating a Psychoeducation Documentary Music Video Short
IRAS ID
291781
Contact name
Shalhavit-Simcha Cohen
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Edinburgh
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 29 days
Research summary
Research has articulated helpful suggestions for alleviating mental health challenges, however poor access hinders its impact on young people.
This study aims to research how to improve the mental wellness of adolescents by developing accessible coping skills education. This will be done by both translating academic research on mental health coping skills topics, alongside individual interviews on topics in documentary format. These will be packaged into publicly accessible multimedia in the format of music video documentaries, co-created with young adults.
Recruiting will be done by addressing clinicians at CAMHS who will recommend projects to their patients. Participants would be those who take part in the care program at CAMHS Edinburgh who clinician suggested are fit and suitable to participate and who would potentially desire to contribute to others by sharing their advice.
Participation involves bi-weekly meetings over the span of two months. Each meeting entails an interview, some include a short survey, and optional invitation to participants to film non identifiable short videos using their own devices. A song will be co created based on discussions transcriptions and alongside research-based information regarding help seeking and health building. The music video will be curated with participants' film contributions and editing stages will be shared, to ensure the final results are satisfactory to participants.
The experimental Documentary-Music-Video productions are informed by cognitive and multimedia learning theories. Those productions are to be co-created with intended audiences. Feedback from participants, and later, from it’s viewers, will inform consecutive designs following each stage of DMV.
Following the production of several DMV’s using this design, thematic analysis and online dissemination are in progress, so far suggesting that both participants and the video viewers have experienced increased empathy and self-compassion. DMV involving young people at CAMHS is proposed to be the final film for this PhD project.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 3
REC reference
21/WS/0045
Date of REC Opinion
29 Apr 2021
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion