Using Arts-Based Methodologies to Understand Adolescent and Youth Manifestations, Representations, and Potential Causes of Depression and Anxiety in Low-Income Urban Settings in Peru.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Arts-based methodologies can be beneficial to identify different representations of stigmatized topics such as mental health conditions. This study used a theater-based workshop to describe manifestations, representations, and potential causes of depression and anxiety as perceived by adolescents and young adults.

Methods

The theater company Teatro La Plaza conducted three online sessions with a group of adolescents and another with a group of young adults from Lima, Peru. The artistic outputs, which included images, similes, monologues, and narrations, were used to describe the experiences of depression and anxiety symptoms following a content analysis using posteriori categories.

Results

Seventeen participants joined the sessions. The artistic outp

SUBMITTER: Hidalgo-Padilla L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9737895 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature