Understandings and applications of rural community resilience amongst Scottish stakeholders: Introducing dual discourses

Currie, Margaret; McKee, Annie; Glass, Jayne; Markantoni, Marianna; Pinker, Annabel; McMorran, Rob; Meador, Elliot

doi:10.1080/15575330.2022.2120509

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“…In social scenarios, it is suggested as a desirable collective resource for dealing with adversities, including responding to environmental disasters, lack of economic opportunities, inaccessibility of services, and public health challenges [ 15 , 16 ]. Community resilience has been discussed as building through proactive processes that continually add capacity for populations to respond to risks and effect change and involving persistence, adaptation, and transformation acting as interrelated phenomena allowing resilience to occur [ 17 , 18 ]. Resilience relates to the capacity to adapt and thrive by regarding “disturbances as an opportunity for change and development” [ 19 ].…”

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“…Although governments and academics have proposed developing resilience as a way to respond to coping in challenging rural contexts, for individuals and communities, there has been less granular study of how specific interventions can influence rural resilience [ 17 ]. This results in a gap in tools to assist policy makers, capacity-building practitioners, and citizens to assess what is happening in resilience processes.…”

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Online Mental Health Forums and Rural Resilience: Mixed Methods Study and Logic Model

Steiner¹,

Farmer²,

Kamstra³

et al. 2023

JMIR Ment Health

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Background Rural mental health is a growing area of concern internationally, and online mental health forums offer a potential response to addressing service gaps in rural communities. Objective The objective of this study was to explore and identify pathways by which online peer support mental health forums help to build resilience for rural residents experiencing mental ill-health by contributing to overcoming their specific contextual challenges. Methods We developed a Theoretical Resilience Framework and applied it to 3000 qualitative posts from 3 Australian online mental health forums and to data from 30 interviews with rural forum users. Results Drawing on the findings and an abductive approach, a logic model was developed to illustrate links between the resilience resources built and enabling features of forums that make them spaces that facilitate resilience. Conclusions The study demonstrated that online forums make valuable contributions to social well-being and access to a range of timely support services for rural people experiencing mental ill-health, and, while doing so, involve users in the processes of resilience building. The study provides a new way for practitioners to frame the work of and value produced by forums. It gives a logic model that can be used in evaluation and audit as it facilitates a causal framing of how forums, as an intervention, link with resilience outcomes. Ultimately, the study contributes to developing new knowledge about how rural resilience building can be conceptualized and measured while showing how forums are part of contemporary health service provision in rural places.

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Online Mental Health Forums and Rural Resilience: Mixed Methods Study and Logic Model

Steiner¹,

Farmer²,

Kamstra³

et al. 2023

JMIR Ment Health

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“…For example, authors such as Imperiale and Vanclay (2016) have advocated more analysis of how resilience can be operationalised in rural areas to address this gap. In Scotland, where this research is focussed, like many similar countries, there is little operational detail about how to increase the resilience of rural communities and so understand why some communities are more resilient than others, despite a supportive policy environment surrounding community resilience (Currie et al, 2022). This article, therefore, responds to this gap in understanding by developing a novel and practical framework for translating rural community resilience theory into practice to provide practical options that communities can use to increase their resilience to complex challenges and drivers of change.…”

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Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach

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Despite the availability of important theoretical insights that could enhance the resilience of rural communities to complex challenges, there is a paucity of guidance on how to apply these insights in practice. This article therefore presents and assesses a deliberative research process using the Delphi technique to elicit expert knowledge from 22 academics, community practitioners and policymakers working in roles related to community resilience delivery in rural Scotland. The participants co‐produced an operational framework for community resilience, with support from researchers who facilitated the three‐stage, interactive process. The methodology enabled participants to work together in an iterative and inclusive manner, culminating in the collective development of a conceptual framework consisting of eight resilience‐enabling factors and corresponding criteria for monitoring change, which can be used to plan practical action and provide feedback to enable ongoing adaptation. The process also produced an in‐depth understanding of participants’ perceptions of rural community resilience, identified key factors that enable or impede rural community resilience, analysed the potential to assess community resilience and explored scale‐related issues. The article explores the implications of this framework for those working to make rural communities more resilient and reflects on the benefits and wider application of this type of research approach for developing shared understandings of complex concepts.

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Identifying and evaluating the dimensions and components affecting the resilience of flood-stricken communities: Konarak city

Amirsadat,

Omidipoor,

Bastaminia

et al. 2024

Nat Hazards

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Understandings and applications of rural community resilience amongst Scottish stakeholders: Introducing dual discourses

Cited by 7 publications

References 53 publications

Online Mental Health Forums and Rural Resilience: Mixed Methods Study and Logic Model

Online Mental Health Forums and Rural Resilience: Mixed Methods Study and Logic Model

Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach

Identifying and evaluating the dimensions and components affecting the resilience of flood-stricken communities: Konarak city

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