糖心传媒

Project Leads

Samantha Louie-Poon, Carla Hilario

Team Members
Priscilla Boakye, Shahin Kassam, Manal Kleib, Tianqi Zhao, Josephine Wong

Cluster: Community Engaged Approaches to Promote Immigrant Health and Wellbeing

Health systems are prioritizing culturally responsive care models, yet, the translation of cultural adaptation from research to practice is incremental and often impeded by institutional barriers. While digital communication tools offer rapid access to health information, they have a high potential to reinforce health misinformation. This dichotomy underscores the critical need to investigate how Asian migrant parents navigate and utilize digital tools when seeking children's mental health information.

What digital communication tools are utilized by Asian migrant parents when accessing children鈥檚 mental health information? 

The sub-research questions are: 

1. How do Asian migrant parents evaluate the trustworthiness of digital communication tools? 
2. What contextual factors influence Asian migrant parents to utilize digital communication tools for children's mental health information? 
3. How do cultural contexts, community networks, and structural determinants of health shape how Asian migrant parents navigate digital tools?

This community-based participatory research project followings a three-phased approach: 1) establishment of a community advisory group to work as co-researchers to co-lead the project; 2) focus group discussions across four sites (Edmonton; Toronto; Vancouver; Kelowna); 3) initiate the co-design of a novel digital mental health platform.

This project is ongoing and currenlty in its advisory development stage.

Asian mental health; parents and caregivers; community-led research; misinformation; digital health