Mental Health Bridges – enabling health literacy skills for people with mental health issues. An online tool created collaboratively by librarians and mental health professionals

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dc.audienceAudience::Health and Biosciences Libraries Sectionen_US
dc.contributor.authorLevin, Leonard
dc.contributor.authorNicholson, Joanne
dc.coverage.spatialLocation::United States of Americaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-05T18:55:26Z
dc.date.available2023-10-05
dc.date.available2023-10-05T18:55:26Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-05
dc.description.abstractThis poster describes how an interdisciplinary team designed, launched, and maintains a website (mentalhealthbridges.org) that advances the World Health Organization (WHO) mandate to reduce health iniquities through health literacy promotion. The prevalence of mental illness world-wide is 10.7% (Ritchie 2020). Persons with mental illness die 25 years earlier that those in the general population, often due to co-morbidities, demonstrating the need for health literacy education in this population (Parks 2006). Funded by a grant from the US National Library of Medicine, this interactive training tool was designed following a) an extensive literature search to understand how persons with mental illness use the Internet, b) data collection via focus groups of patients, librarians, and mental health professionals and c), a survey geared to the latter group. The site was launched in 2023 and aims to engage and inspire individuals in learning health literacy skills through a variety of interactive features tailored to this population. To maintain sustainability, next steps include the creation of an international advisory board comprised of professionals and individuals with lived experience. As content continues to be added, translation of the site into different languages will be a priority so to engage people within a variety of cultures.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://2023.ifla.org/poster-sessions/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/2877
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries88th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), 2023 Rotterdam;Poster Sessions
dc.rights.holderLeonard Levinen_US
dc.rights.holderJoanne Nicholsonen_US
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectSubject::Health literacyen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Mental healthen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Health information professionalsen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Health librariansen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Collaborationen_US
dc.titleMental Health Bridges – enabling health literacy skills for people with mental health issues. An online tool created collaboratively by librarians and mental health professionalsen_US
dc.typeEvents Materialsen_US
dc.typePostersen_US
ifla.UnitUnits::Section::Health and Biosciences Libraries Sectionen_US
ifla.oPubId0en_US

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