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The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs
This study documents evaluation of the Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-designed empowerment pilot programs. The programs were designed to support Victorian Aboriginal people to strengthen mental health, social and emotional wellbeing, community connection, and to reduce psychological distress. A...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8875140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35206570 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042381 |
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author | Gee, Graham Sheridan, Sarah Charles, Lena Dayne, Lana Joyce, Lisa Stevens, Jack Paradies, Yin Hulbert, Carol Haslam, Nick Thorpe, Reg Thorpe, Lisa Thorpe, Alister Stewart, Paul Austin, Lionel Lyons, Louise Belfrage, Mary Warber, Ruby Paxton, Ashley Thompson, Laura |
author_facet | Gee, Graham Sheridan, Sarah Charles, Lena Dayne, Lana Joyce, Lisa Stevens, Jack Paradies, Yin Hulbert, Carol Haslam, Nick Thorpe, Reg Thorpe, Lisa Thorpe, Alister Stewart, Paul Austin, Lionel Lyons, Louise Belfrage, Mary Warber, Ruby Paxton, Ashley Thompson, Laura |
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description | This study documents evaluation of the Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-designed empowerment pilot programs. The programs were designed to support Victorian Aboriginal people to strengthen mental health, social and emotional wellbeing, community connection, and to reduce psychological distress. A second aim was to explore participants’ experiences of the programs, including the feasibility and acceptability of the evaluation component. Her Tribe ran for 16 weeks and His Tribe for 12 weeks. In total, 43 women and 26 men completed assessments at pre- and post-program completion, and 17 and 10, respectively, participated in yarning circles at the 6-month follow up. For both programs, there were significant increases in participants’ access to personal strengths and resources, relationship–community–cultural strengths and resources, and decreases in psychological distress. These changes were associated with small to moderate effects that were maintained at the 6-month follow up. There was a significant increase in aerobic fitness for female but not male participants, and no significant changes in weight for either group. Participants described a range of benefits from the programs, including positive elements and areas for improvement. They also viewed the evaluation as feasible and acceptable, and the findings of value. The outcomes from both pilot programs provide evidence that Aboriginal-designed programs, with a focus on physical and cultural activities, can help to strengthen mental health and wellbeing, community connection, and reduce psychological distress in Victorian Aboriginal communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-88751402022-02-26 The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs Gee, Graham Sheridan, Sarah Charles, Lena Dayne, Lana Joyce, Lisa Stevens, Jack Paradies, Yin Hulbert, Carol Haslam, Nick Thorpe, Reg Thorpe, Lisa Thorpe, Alister Stewart, Paul Austin, Lionel Lyons, Louise Belfrage, Mary Warber, Ruby Paxton, Ashley Thompson, Laura Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study documents evaluation of the Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-designed empowerment pilot programs. The programs were designed to support Victorian Aboriginal people to strengthen mental health, social and emotional wellbeing, community connection, and to reduce psychological distress. A second aim was to explore participants’ experiences of the programs, including the feasibility and acceptability of the evaluation component. Her Tribe ran for 16 weeks and His Tribe for 12 weeks. In total, 43 women and 26 men completed assessments at pre- and post-program completion, and 17 and 10, respectively, participated in yarning circles at the 6-month follow up. For both programs, there were significant increases in participants’ access to personal strengths and resources, relationship–community–cultural strengths and resources, and decreases in psychological distress. These changes were associated with small to moderate effects that were maintained at the 6-month follow up. There was a significant increase in aerobic fitness for female but not male participants, and no significant changes in weight for either group. Participants described a range of benefits from the programs, including positive elements and areas for improvement. They also viewed the evaluation as feasible and acceptable, and the findings of value. The outcomes from both pilot programs provide evidence that Aboriginal-designed programs, with a focus on physical and cultural activities, can help to strengthen mental health and wellbeing, community connection, and reduce psychological distress in Victorian Aboriginal communities. MDPI 2022-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8875140/ /pubmed/35206570 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042381 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gee, Graham Sheridan, Sarah Charles, Lena Dayne, Lana Joyce, Lisa Stevens, Jack Paradies, Yin Hulbert, Carol Haslam, Nick Thorpe, Reg Thorpe, Lisa Thorpe, Alister Stewart, Paul Austin, Lionel Lyons, Louise Belfrage, Mary Warber, Ruby Paxton, Ashley Thompson, Laura The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs |
title | The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs |
title_full | The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs |
title_fullStr | The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs |
title_full_unstemmed | The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs |
title_short | The Her Tribe and His Tribe Aboriginal-Designed Empowerment Programs |
title_sort | her tribe and his tribe aboriginal-designed empowerment programs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8875140/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35206570 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042381 |
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