Journal article
Evidence of co-creation practices in suicide prevention in government policy: a directed and summative content analysis
BMC Public Health, Vol.22, pp.1-12
2022
PMID: 36253848
Abstract
Background
In Australia, the collaborative involvement of stakeholders, especially those with lived experience in mental health and suicide prevention, has become important to government policy and practice at Federal and State levels. However, little is known about how governments translate this intention into frameworks of co-creation for policy, funding programs, service improvement, and research and evaluation. We investigated the extent to which publicly available government policies refer to collaborative practice using an established translation model.
Methods
An exploratory directed and summative content analysis approach was used to analyse the contents of Federal (also known as Commonwealth), State and Territories policy documents on mental health and suicide prevention published in Australia between 2010 and 2021. The data was extracted, compared to an existing translation model, and summated to demonstrate the evidence of co-creation-related concepts between government and stakeholders.
Results
40 policy documents (nine at the Federal and 31 at the State and Territory level) were identified and included in the analysis. Only 63% of policy documents contained references to the concept of co-design. Six of the State policies contained references to the concept of co-production. Across all policy documents, there were no references to other concepts in the model adopted for this study, such as co-creation, co-ideation, co-implementation, and co-evaluation.
Conclusion
Although the government at Federal, State and Territory levels appear to support collaborative practice through partnership and co-design, this study suggests a narrow approach to the theoretical model for co-creation at a policy level. Implications for both research and practice are discussed.
Details
- Title
- Evidence of co-creation practices in suicide prevention in government policy: a directed and summative content analysis
- Authors
- Tania Pearce (Corresponding Author) - University of New EnglandMyfanwy Maple - University of New EnglandSarah Wayland - University of New EnglandKathy McKay - University of LiverpoolAnthony Shakeshaft - UNSW SydneyAlan Woodward - The University of Melbourne
- Publication details
- BMC Public Health, Vol.22, pp.1-12
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12889-022-14313-3
- ISSN
- 1471-2458
- PMID
- 36253848
- Copyright note
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Data Availability
- The data used to support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Psychology
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991241462502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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