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Item ‘I am not complete without my family’: a culture-centred exploration of meanings of health and well-being among migrant Indian nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand(Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA), 2025-02-17) Jayan P; Dutta MJ; Thaker JIn Aotearoa New Zealand, the voices of migrant nurses are often overlooked and marginalised despite being visible in the economy. This manuscript uses a culture-centred approach to centre the voices of migrant Indian nurses on understanding their meanings of health and well-being. Contrary to the Western models, which position health as individual accountability, the thirty in-depth conversations with migrant Indian nurses point towards the importance of collective in maintaining health and well-being. The dialogues with participants revealed three main themes: the family and community as interwoven to health and well-being, migration and the hidden health cost of family disconnection, and the significance of culturally appropriate food in maintaining health. This study contributes to health communication theory and practice by providing insights into the health and well-being meanings of migrant nurses, centring their voices as replacements to neoliberal, dominant paradigms of health.Item Participant and caregiver perspectives on health feedback from a healthy lifestyle check(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2024-01-12) Lee MD; Wild CEK; Taiapa KJ; Rawiri NT; Egli V; Maessen SE; Anderson YCIntroduction The usual output following health consultations from paediatric services is a clinical letter to the referring professional or primary care provider, with a copy sent to the patient's caregiver. There is little research on how patients and caregivers perceive the letter content. We aimed to: first understand child, young people and caregiver experiences of and preferences for receiving a health feedback letter about the child/young person's health measures within a healthy lifestyle programme; and second to provide a set of recommendations for designing letters to children, young people and their families within a healthy lifestyle programme. Methods This qualitative study, informed by Kaupapa Māori principles, included focus groups of children aged 5–11 years and young people aged 12–18 years who were participants in a healthy lifestyle programme in Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand and of their respective caregivers (total n = 47). Discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Findings Key themes were identified: letters sometimes acted as ‘discourses of disempowerment’—some participants experienced a lack of safety, depersonalisation with medical jargon and ‘feeling like a number’. Participants described the need for acknowledgement and affirmation in written communication—health feedback should include validation, choice regarding content, respectful tone and a strengths-based approach to health messages. Interpretation Letters to referrers, copied to families, can be perceived as disempowering, and participant and caregiver perspectives of content should be considered. This study challenges conventional practice in communicating health feedback with broader implications for written communication in healthcare. We propose separate letters aimed at the child/young person and their caregiver that offer choice in the information they receive. The administrative burden of multiple letters can be mitigated by advances in digital health. Patient Contribution This study originated in response to feedback from service users that current health feedback was not meeting their needs or expectations. Patient perspectives, especially from children, are rarely considered in the generation of clinic letters from health professionals. Participants were child participants in the community-based clinical service and their caregivers, and care was taken to represent the demographic backgrounds of service users. Collection and interpretation of Māori data were led by researchers who were local community members to ensure prioritisation and preservation of participant voice. Where possible, results are illustrated in the text by direct quotes from participants, whose identities are protected with a pseudonym.Item Editorial: Food systems communication amid compounding crises: Power, resistance, and change(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-09-28) Gordon C; Hunt KP; Dutta MJ; Peterson TRItem Well-being Messaging for Mammalian Milks: A Scoping Review(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-10-22) Moradi S; Hort J; Roy NCHaving a holistic understanding of research on well-being messaging for milk is vital to allow the optimal communication of the association between milk consumption and various nutritional, physical, and psychological benefits to the consumer. This work is a unique interdisciplinary, scoping review of existing research on well-being messaging for milk. Well-being messages are ways to communicate the broad well-being benefits of specific products to the consumer through information on food content or statements that link a product with favourable components, functions, or well-being outcomes. Leveraging this broad definition, and by proposing a guiding theoretical model that considers well-being messaging as a form of communication, milk well-being messaging literature has been mapped across time, geographical locations, disciplines, and product types. Two hundred forty-six were records included in this review, of which 177 were empirical studies. Studies were disseminated between 1954 and 2019, with 54.9% published after 2011. Food, Agriculture, and Biological Sciences (N = 109), Nutrition and Dietetics (N = 78), and Medicine, Public Health, and Health Professions (N = 69) disciplines have attracted the most publications, with numbers generally increasing in most recent years. The majority of included non-empirical records (69.6%) provide lists of commercially available products carrying well-being messaging and/or regulations on the use of particular well-being messages for milk according to various legislative authorities. Most of the empirical studies were conducted in North America (N = 71), West Europe (N = 52), and Oceania (N = 22), and on plain (i.e., unflavoured) milk (N = 152). Whereas, most studied elements of well-being messaging for milk across time, i.e., message (N = 169), product (N = 141), receiver (N = 101), and context (N = 72) have seen an increasing number of studies in recent years; sender (N = 51) and medium (N = 27) have been even less studied in the past four years. A more detailed analysis of research trends in each element of well-being messaging is reported. The research highlights immediate and strategic knowledge gaps that need further attention from researchers and/or policymakers in order to improve the "messaging" of well-being benefits of milk consumption to the consumer.
