@article{ref1,
title="Using arts-based methodologies to understand adolescent and youth manifestations, representations, and potential causes of depression and anxiety in low-income urban settings in Peru",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2022",
author="Hidalgo-Padilla, Liliana and Vilela-Estrada, Ana L. and Toyama, Mauricio and Flores, Sumiko and Ramirez-Meneses, Daniela and Steffen, Mariana and Heritage, Paul and Fung, Catherine and Priebe, Stefan and Diez-Canseco, Francisco",
volume="19",
number="23",
pages="e15517-e15517",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Arts-based methodologies can be beneficial to identify different representations of stigmatized topics such as mental health conditions. This study used a theater-based workshop to describe manifestations, representations, and potential causes of depression and anxiety as perceived by adolescents and young adults. <br><br>METHODS: The theater company Teatro La Plaza conducted three online sessions with a group of adolescents and another with a group of young adults from Lima, Peru. The artistic outputs, which included images, similes, monologues, and narrations, were used to describe the experiences of depression and anxiety symptoms following a content analysis using posteriori categories. <br><br>RESULTS: Seventeen participants joined the sessions. The artistic outputs showed: physical, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional manifestations of depression and anxiety; a perception that both disorders have a cyclical nature; and an awareness that it is often difficult to notice symptom triggers. The mandatory social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic was highlighted as an important symptom trigger, mostly linked to anxiety. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The findings are consistent with the literature, especially with regard to the manifestations, representations, and potential causes that trigger depression and anxiety. Using arts-based methods allowed adolescents and young adults to expand the articulation of their representations of mental disorders.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph192315517",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315517"
}