Co-Designing Health Service Evaluation Tools That Foreground First Nation Worldviews for Better Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes

It is critical that health service evaluation frameworks include Aboriginal people and their cultural worldviews from design to implementation. During a large participatory action research study, Elders, service leaders and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers co-designed evaluation tools to test the efficacy of a previously co-designed engagement framework. Through a series of co-design workshops, tools were built using innovative collaborative processes that foregrounded Aboriginal worldviews.

Citation:
Wright M, Getta AD, Green AO, ...... McNamara AI, McNamara UA, Newman AM, ....... Penny AM, Wilkes UP, Wilkes AS, Culbong T, Taylor K, Brown AQ, Dudgeon P, Pearson G, Allsop S, Lin A, Smith G, Farrant B, Mirabella L, O’Connell M. Co-designing health service evaluation tools that foreground first nation worldviews for better mental health and wellbeing outcomes. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(16).

Keywords:
Indigenous research methodologies; co-design; engagement; first nations; participatory action research; relationships; service evaluation; worldviews

Abstract:
It is critical that health service evaluation frameworks include Aboriginal people and their cultural worldviews from design to implementation. During a large participatory action research study, Elders, service leaders and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers co-designed evaluation tools to test the efficacy of a previously co-designed engagement framework. Through a series of co-design workshops, tools were built using innovative collaborative processes that foregrounded Aboriginal worldviews.