The School of Nursing partnered with the eHealth Strategy Office to create a suite of online tools to highlight research findings from a study on men’s experiences with depression and how to best support men and their families in dealing with mental health.
The Men’s Depression Help Yourself website highlights key findings from Dr. Jon Oliffe’s (Associate Professor, School of Nursing) program of research that focus on raising awareness around men’s mental health. Findings focus on college-age men, older men, and middle-aged men and their female partners.
The eHealth Strategy Office designed the functionality and graphics for the Men’s Depression Help Yourself website as well as creating brochures and a suite of 25 videos that highlight men’s personal experiences with depression and findings from the research study.
Thanks to the hard work of the entire team involved on this project. A special thanks to ehealth staff Sha Xiao for her graphic savvy and Jon Rawlinson for his video production talents.
Thanks to the School of Nursing for the opportunity to work together to help highlight the importance of men’s mental health and bring awareness to an often undiagnosed and stigmatized issue using interactive and online communication technologies.
To learn more on how online technologies can facilitate mental health awareness and discussion, download the literature review on Telehealth for Mental Health and Substance Use.