TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Bringing Lived Lives to Swift's Asylum: a psychiatric hospital perspective
JO  - Wellcome open research
A1  - Malone, Kevin M.
A1  - Cleary, Eimear
A1  - Kelleher, Cecily C.
A1  - Jefferies, Janis
A1  - Lane, Abbie
A1  - Lucey, James V.
A1  - McGuiness, Seamus
SP  - e85
EP  - e85
VL  - 6
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: Few "interventions" around suicide and stigma have reached into psychiatric institutions. Lived Lives is a science-arts approach to addressing suicide and stigma, informed by a psychobiographical and visual arts autopsy. The resulting artworks and mediated exhibition ( Lived Lives), has facilitated dialogue, response and public action around stigma-reduction, consistent with a community intervention. Recent evidence from Lived Lives moved us to consider how it may situate within a psychiatric hospital. <br><br>METHODS: Lived Lives manifested in St. Patrick's University Hospital (Ireland's oldest and largest psychiatric hospital) in November 2017.   A mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate the exhibition as a potential intervention to address stigma around suicide, with quantitative and qualitative data collected via written questionnaire and oral data collected via video documentation.  Bereavement support was available. A Clinician and an artist also provided independent evaluation. <br><br>RESULTS:  86 participants engaged with the exhibition, with 68 completing questionnaire data. Audiences included service users, policy makers, health professionals, senior hospital administrators and members of the public. 62% of participants who completed questionnaires were suicide-bereaved; 46% had experienced a mental health difficulty, and 35% had been suicidal in the past. 91% thought Lived Lives could be of benefit in the aftermath of a suicide death. Half of participants thought Lived Lives could help reduce suicidal feelings, whereas 88% thought it could benefit those with Mental Health difficulties. The emotional response was of a visceral nature, including fear, anger, sadness, disgust and anxiety. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Lived Lives sits comfortably in discomfort, unafraid to call out the home-truths about stigma and its pervasive and pernicious impact, and with restoring identity at its core. Lived Lives can operate within a psychiatric hospital, as well as in community. The challenge is to move it forward for greater exposure and impacts in at-risk communities.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2398-502X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15588.2
ID  - ref1
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