This article is the result of a communication study research on effective communication conducted by the Into The Light Indonesia community on improving the mental health literacy of young people in Jabodetabek. Mental health in Indonesia has not received enough attention, unlike physical health, so it is necessary to increase understanding of mental health. Since 2013, the Into The Light Indonesia community has been present as a community of young people working as a center for advocacy, study and education on suicide prevention and working on mental health issues in Indonesia. This study aims to reveal differences in mental health literacy levels between young people in Jabodetabek who participate and those who do not participate in Into The Light Indonesia community’s activities, reveal the relationship of effective communication with the delivery of mental health literacy related materials, and to evaluate the communication strategy of Into The Light Indonesia community. For this reason, the research method used is a convergent parallel mixed method, in which a quantitative approach by taking two independent samples (???? = 120) to fill out a questionnaire to compare the level of mental health literacy and measure the effectiveness of communication carried out, as well as a qualitative approach through interviews to identify and evaluate the activities carried out by the Into The Light Indonesia community. The results of this study indicate that statistically, there is no significant difference between the mental health literacy levels of participants and non-participants in the Into The Light Indonesia community activities. However, the results of the study show that effective communication significantly increases the level of mental health literacy. Into The Light participants also showed awareness and interest in finding out more mental health related information. In this study it can also be found that a communication strategy approach is needed by adopting local ways to increase audience awareness and interest, as well as quantitative evaluation with clear measurements to measure the achievement of the communication strategy objectives. Artikel ini merupakan hasil penelitian studi komunikasi mengenai komunikasi efektif yang dilakukan oleh komunitas Into The Light Indonesia dalam meningkatkan literasi kesehatan mental anak muda di Jabodetabek. Kesehatan mental di Indonesia masih belum mendapat cukup perhatian layaknya kesehatan fisik, sehingga diperlukan peningkatan pemahaman mengenai kesehatan mental. Sejak tahun 2013, komunitas Into The Light Indonesia hadir sebagai sebuah komunitas orang muda yang bergerak sebagai pusat advokasi, kajian, dan edukasi pencegahan bunuh diri dan berkecimpung pada isu kesehatan mental di Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap perbedaan tingkat literasi kesehatan mental antara orang muda di Jabodetabek yang berpartisipasi dengan yang tidak berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan komunitas Into The Light Indonesia, mengungkap hubungan komunikasi efektif dalam penyampaian materi terhadap literasi kesehatan mental, dan mengevaluasi strategi komunikasi komunitas Into The Light Indonesia. Untuk itu, metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode campuran paralel konvergen, dimana pendekatan kuantitatif dengan mengambil dua sampel independen (???? = 120) untuk mengisi kuesioner untuk membandingkan tingkat literasi kesehatan mental dan mengukur efektivitas komunikasi yang dilakukan, serta pendekatan kualitatif melalui wawancara untuk mengidentifikasi serta mengevaluasi kegiatan-kegiatan yang dilakukan komunitas Into The Light Indonesia. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa secara statistik, tidak ada perbedaan yang signifikan antara tingkat literasi kesehatan mental partisipan dan nonpartisipan kegiatan komunitas Into The Light Indonesia. Namun, hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa komunikasi efektif meningkatkan tingkat literasi kesehatan mental secara signifikan. Terlihat juga adanya awareness dan interest untuk mencari informasi lebih banyak mengenai kesehatan mental pada partisipan kegiatan Into The Light Indonesia. Dalam penelitian ini juga dapat ditemukan bahwa diperlukan pendekatan strategi komunikasi dengan mengadopsi cara-cara lokal untuk meningkatkan awareness dan minat audience, serta evaluasi kuantitatif dengan measurement yang jelas untuk mengukur ketercapaiannya tujuan strategi komunikasi.

Hepatitis C (HCV) infection elimination in low- and middle-income countries requires decentralised HCV services to increase testing and linkage to care. The CT2 Study investigated patients’ views of access to and acceptance of two community-based HCV care models in Myanmar using a mixed-methods approach. Point-of-care HCV testing and general practitioner-initiated HCV treatment were provided at two community clinics in Yangon, Myanmar–the Burnet Institute’s (BI) clinic focused on people who inject drugs (PWID), and the Myanmar Liver Foundation’s (MLF) clinic focused on people with liver-related diseases. Study staff administered quantitative questionnaires to 633 participants receiving anti-HCV antibody testing. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 29 participants receiving direct-acting antiviral treatment for qualitative interviews. Among participants completing quantitative questionnaires, almost all reported the clinic location was convenient (447/463, 97%), waiting time was acceptable (455/463, 98%), and HCV antibody and RNA testing methods were acceptable (617/632, 98% and 592/605, 97% respectively). Nearly all participants were satisfied with their clinic’s services (444/463, 96%) and preferred same-day test results (589/632, 93%). BI clinic participants were more confident that they understood HCV antibody and RNA results; MLF clinic participants were more comfortable disclosing their risk behaviour to staff and had slightly higher satisfaction with the overall care, privacy and secure storage of their information. In qualitative interviews, participants reported that flexible appointment scheduling, short wait times and rapid return of results increased the clinic’s accessibility. The simplified point-of-care testing and treatment procedures and supportive healthcare providers contributed to participants’ acceptance of the HCV care model. This decentralised community-based HCV testing and treatment model was highly accessible and acceptable to CT2 participants. Prioritizing patient-centred care, rapid provision of results, flexible appointments and convenient clinic locations can promote accessible and acceptable services which may in turn help accelerate progress in reaching HCV elimination targets.

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This research investigates the portrayal of masculinity in Australian young adult novels published in 2019. The novels were taken from the 2020 Children’s Books Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year for Older Readers Notables List. Established in 1946, these annual awards are considered the most prominent and prestigious in Australian children’s and young adult literature and are likely to be accessible and promoted to young readers in schools and libraries. The three texts studied were Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte, The Boy who Steals Houses by C.G. Drews, and This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield. Using a Critical Content Analysis methodology (Beach et al., 2009), researchers completed a review of the literature and theories around masculinity and chose to analyse three exemplary texts using the attributes of the Hegemonic Masculinity Schema (HMS) and Sensitive New Man Schema (SNMS) as described by Romøren and Stephens (2002). Attributes from the HMS include traits and behaviours like being violent, physical or verbal bullying, and hostile to difference while attributes from the SNMS include being supportive, affectionate, and considerate and respectful of the space and feelings of others (especially females). In this method, researchers identify examples of the attributes within the main characters and minor characters from each of the three books, recording quotes and noting critical incidents depicting aspects of masculinity. Notable findings of the research include the acknowledgment and portrayal of a particular conception of hegemonic masculinity in the selected novels often informed or shaped by the presence of dominant father figures and the absence of the concept of “the mother.” The characters who aligned to the schema used within this research are often overshadowed by a dominant father figure who conformed to an extreme version of hegemonic masculinity and who shaped their child’s actions even if the fathers were absent from the novel. The research reveals commonly held conceptions of masculinity aligned to those used in the schema and demonstrated that young adult literature, like popular media, can be used as a vehicle for the dissemination of such concepts and reveal contemporary understandings of it. Outputs from this research include the development of a modified and more contemporary schema which could be applied to future research. Significantly, this interdisciplinary research bridges the library, education and literature fields to examine the different ways maleness and masculinity are depicted to young adult readers in prize-nominated Australian young adult novels.