Getting to the Heart of the Story: Using Talanoa to Explore Pacific Mental Health.

Getting to the Heart of the Story: Using Talanoa to Explore Pacific Mental Health. Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2016 Jun 7;:1-8 Authors: Vaka S, Brannelly T, Huntington A Abstract Talanoa is an established format for generating discussion about complex topics used throughout the Pacific. Pacific researchers use talanoa to gather data with migrant Pacific Island populations, in countries such as the United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand (A/NZ). Using talanoa in this way, changes the way that the approach is used as, on the one hand it is out of its original context, and on the other hand, extends its use to gather data with Pacific Islanders. In this article, we discuss the implementation of talanoa in an explorative qualitative research project, and discuss its effectiveness and usefulness for getting to the heart of the story about Tongan interpretations of mental illness and distress. PMID: 27269360 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Issues in Mental Health Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Issues Ment Health Nurs Source Type: research