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
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, such as 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 at 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.
talanoa, indigenous knowledge, mental illness, migration, methodology
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Vaka, Sione
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Brannelly, Tula
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Huntington, Annette
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August 2016
Vaka, Sione
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Brannelly, Tula
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Vaka, Sione, Brannelly, Tula and Huntington, Annette
(2016)
Getting to the heart of the story: using talanoa to explore Pacific mental health.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 37 (8), .
(doi:10.1080/01612840.2016.1186253).
(PMID:27269360)
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, such as 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 at 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.
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 April 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 June 2016
Published date: August 2016
Keywords:
talanoa, indigenous knowledge, mental illness, migration, methodology
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Faculty of Health Sciences, Researcher Development
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Local EPrints ID: 397215
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397215
ISSN: 0161-2840
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Sione Vaka
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Tula Brannelly
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