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In 2018, we started the journey to improve heart health in people with complex mental health, by ensuring the people most impacted co-designed the model. Small groups of up to half a dozen co-designers reflected on various aspects of heart health in one-to-two-hour sessions. These sessions allowed for creativity, diversity, and were enjoyable and productive.
The journey map pictured below was one tool used to encourage discussion, with the outcomes informing the healthy heart model of care.
Over multiple cycles of co-design, the co-designers have led to development of study resources, adaptation of the processes in relation to COVID-19 impacts, and updates on how information in provided to participants through the study.
Thank you to the many people from the co-design living labs network for co-designing the healthy heart model.
The Assertive Cardiac Care Trial (ACCT) is funded by an NHMRC Project Grant (2018) APP1141344
The trial is still recruiting. For further information or to be involved in the trial, please get in touch at healthy-hearts@unimelb.edu.au or 1800 431 212.
https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/research-groups/general-practice-research/mental-health-program/the-acct-healthy-hearts-study
The ALIVE National Centre is funded by the NHMRC Special Initiative in Mental Health.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and sky. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We are committed to working together to address the health inequalities within our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We accept the invitation to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this site may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It shows only the general locations of larger groupings of people which may include clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. It used published resources from the eighteenth century-1994 and is not intended to be exact, nor the boundaries fixed. It is not suitable for native title or other land claims. David R Horton (creator), © AIATSIS, 1996. No reproduction without permission. To purchase a print version visit: https://shop.aiatsis.gov.au/
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Special Initiative in Mental Health GNT2002047.
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