Designing a Library of Lived Experience for Mental Health: integrated realist synthesis and experience-based co-design study in UK mental health services.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Living Library events involve people being trained as living 'Books', who then discuss aspects of their personal experiences in direct conversation with attendees, referred to as 'Readers'. This study sought to generate a realist programme theory and a theory-informed implementation guide for a Library of Lived Experience for Mental Health (LoLEM).

Design

Integrated realist synthesis and experience-based co-design.

Setting

Ten online workshops with participants based in the North of England.

Participants

Thirty-one participants with a combination of personal experience of using mental health services, caring for someone with mental health difficulties and/or working in mental health support roles.

Results

Database searches identified 30 publish

SUBMITTER: Marshall P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10831458 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature