Co-creating a Social Communication Toolkit for Adolescent Reproductive Health and Well-Being with Young Adults
摘要
Health communication can help cope with conditions such as pregnancy, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. However, its impact on long-term sustainable behaviour change is uncertain, as most interventions focus on concurrent validity. Health-governing bodies now encourage practices that make people self-reliant; therefore, health communication needs to adapt from social communication and aim to make individuals self-aware and responsible for their own well-being. This is especially relevant for adolescents’ reproductive health and well-being, as their life trajectory is uncertain and learning about others’ lived experiences can help them curate their path. This paper presents the outcomes of a series of experience-based co-design workshops conducted with six young adults to build a social communication toolkit for adolescent reproductive health and well-being. The workshops spanned a twelve-day period, ranging in duration from forty-five minutes to three hours. The cocreating workshop integrates the interventional gamified framework on social communication with empirical study conducted with thirty women residing in India. It incorporated women’s lived experiences and their journey towards understanding their reproductive well-being. The content in the workshops is weaved to identify components to build a social communication toolkit, for adolescent psychoeducation that promotes seeking knowledge and devising self-maintenance mechanisms for becoming self-reliant and self-conscious.