Successful mental health promotion with men: the evidence from ‘tacit knowledge’: Table 1:

Robertson, Steve; Gough, Brendan; Hanna, Esmée; Raine, Gary; Robinson, Mark; Seims, Amanda; White, Alan

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“…'the stress can build up fast' [FP6]). Stress and related terms are often preferred by men as a way of conceptualising vulnerability or in relation to mental health issues (Robertson et al, 2014). The language of stress, and the opportunity the forum affords for helping to cope with stress, was also used as a means of motivating other men to post on the forum:…”

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Searching for help online: An analysis of peer-to-peer posts on a male-only infertility forum

Hanna

Gough

2016

J Health Psychol

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Men's experiences of infertility help seeking are under research and thus less widely understood, with men's needs for support often missing from reproductive research knowledge. This paper presents qualitative thematic analysis of peer-to-peer posts within the context of a UK men only online infertility forum. The key themes demonstrate men value male support from those with experience, and that masculinity influences making help requests and frames men's actions and accounts. Online spaces offer men access to potentially valuable support, although more research across other online spaces/settings is required in order to inform practice around supporting men in the reproductive realm.

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“…Language is thus used to create opportunities for other men to help-seek, using simple openers such as 'say hello', is unproblematic in terms of response and may help contribute towards the atmosphere of 'safety' which men appear to highly value when seeking support around sensitive issues (c.f. Robertson et al, 2014).…”

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Searching for help online: An analysis of peer-to-peer posts on a male-only infertility forum

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Gough

2016

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“…Mental health promotion for men that takes account of gender and masculinity is more likely to be effective, for example. 26 Settings that create safe male spaces (eg sport-related, workplaces, Men's Sheds or online) can help to promote trust, reduce stigma and normalise men's engagement in interventions. Men have responded positively to high-profile sportsmen disclosing their mental health issues, as this helps to position help-seeking as a social norm.…”

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Men's mental health: coming out of the closet?

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2017

Trends Urol & Men's Health

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“…A recent scan of work around mental health promotion for men mapped over 50 interventions that were either male-specific or heavily male-focused (Robertson et al, 2015) and there are many more that address physical health. Space does not allow us to mention all such activity but we highlight some areas of particular note.…”

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“…Recent work on what helps men's health promotion to be successful (e.g. Robertson et al 2013a;Robertson et al, 2015) shows the importance of allowing initiatives to be developed from the ground up: that is with involvement of the men engaged being present from the outset and integral to the on-going evolution and success of the intervention. This has been important in ensuring that interventions are diverse and able to be sensitive to aspects of identity (such as ethnicity and sexuality) of the communities of men being engaged.…”

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Men and health promotion in the United Kingdom: 20 years further forward?

Robertson

Baker

2016

Health Education Journal

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Despite overall improvements in life expectancy, rates of premature male mortality, particularly for men in areas of deprivation, remain an important issue of concern in the United Kingdom (UK). Interventions to engage men and promote their health and wellbeing have developed, albeit sporadically, over recent decades in response to this health inequity. This paper provides a ten year update on the state of men's health promotion in the UK. It begins by highlighting changes in male life expectancy, and possible explanations for these shifts, including a relative failure to address mental health promotion and male suicide, before providing detail about how practice approaches to men's health promotion have evolved over the period [2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010][2011][2012][2013][2014][2015][2016]. Such changes are not removed from the wider socioeconomic context. The paper therefore then considers movements in the policy context and possible influences of this before exploring the challenges that remain in men's health promotion in the UK. We suggest that, despite certain improvements in the practice of men's health promotion and in men's health outcomes, issues remain in terms of premature mortality particularly for certain groups of men. We further suggest that many of the difficulties in improving and promoting the health of men further lie with a market-driven neoliberal policy context that engenders inequality through the inequitable distribution of and access to material resources and through individualistic approaches to health promotion that serve men from economically and socially disadvantaged locations least well.

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Successful mental health promotion with men: the evidence from ‘tacit knowledge’: Table 1:

Cited by 65 publications

References 29 publications

Searching for help online: An analysis of peer-to-peer posts on a male-only infertility forum

Searching for help online: An analysis of peer-to-peer posts on a male-only infertility forum

Men's mental health: coming out of the closet?

Men and health promotion in the United Kingdom: 20 years further forward?

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