Development of a research process for the creation of mental health self-care resources

Mental health self-care journals provide a resource for people to build a variety of mental health skills, like resilience and self-compassion, and work through mental health challenges, like self-criticism. Despite the popularity of these resources, few, if any, provide any scientific basis for their effectiveness. The goal of this proposal is to (1) develop a research process for creating mental health self-care resources that is informed by and made for the intended users (e.g., postpartum women); and (2) to test the effectiveness of a postpartum journal created through this research process for improving health and wellbeing. Completion of this project will yield a process for creating further evidence-based mental health self-care resources and a journal for postpartum women with evidence demonstrating its preliminary effectiveness.

Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Rhodes;Sam Liu

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Partner:

Switch Research

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

University of Victoria

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