A project co-created with the community to mitigate loneliness in midlife women

Nadia Corsini; Fiona Dorman; Jodie Scott; Amanda Wright; Deborah Turnbull; Carmel Williams; Deborah Bates; Bernadette Reading; Hayley Everuss; Fanke Peng; Rachael Pearse; Marion Eckert

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1425641

A project co-created with the community to mitigate loneliness in midlife women

Front Public Health. 2024 Sep 11:12:1425641. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1425641. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Co-Lab, Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
² Premier's Council for Women, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³ School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁴ School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁵ Centre for Health in All Policies Research Translation, Health Translation SA, SAHMRI, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁶ The Hut Community Centre, Aldgate, SA, Australia.
⁷ UniSA Creative, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁸ Uniting Communities, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Abstract

This paper describes how a team of researchers, policy stakeholders and community members came together to co-create prevention-oriented and community-informed solutions to address loneliness in women-The Loneliness Project. Our aim is to encourage community partnerships and collective effort to address public health approaches to loneliness by developing a shared understanding of the issue from multiple perspectives and through the co-creation process, highlighting the key factors for co-creating a funding application for a community demonstration project.

Keywords: co-creation; community initiatives; funding; loneliness; women.

MeSH terms

Community Participation / psychology
Female
Humans
Loneliness* / psychology
Middle Aged

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This project was funded by the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA) Women’s Health Research Translation and Impact Network co-production seed funding (2022) and grant funding (2023).