Co-creating an understanding of the Finnish 'babybox' in international health and wellbeing contexts

May 2019

Purpose: To develop an understanding of Vietnamese maternity care, services, and experience. Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of users and providers

Skills: Active listening, co-operation, respect for others and their opinions

Group size: 3 to 4 groups of 6/7 participants with a mix of ages, gender and perspectives: parents, siblings, grandparents, healthcare workers, etc.

Programme

Morning sessionActivityResources/ConsiderationsDuration
Welcome and introductions: people, objectives

Ice breaker activity:

Participants to draw a picture of themselves within a family tree to capture family support networks and relationships - immediate/distance

Paper

Coloured pens

Audio recording

Photographic record of activity

30 - 45 minutes
The baby box as an object...

Introduction to baby box: 

Boards will be used to introduce the concept.

Discussion capturing participants' perceptions. Is there already a cultural alternative?

Baby box images

Audio recording

Photographic record of activity

30 - 45 minutes
Objects: witnesses of your childhood

In advance of the workshop, participants (and facilitators) are requested to bring with them an object that holds a significant memory of their childhood: people, places and relationships. The discussion commences with the facilitators' stories as an ice-breaker.

Participants also photographed with their object (for future use in a film). Situated outside, natural environment as a backdrop, holding the object + head shot with hand out-stretched holding the object and level with their head.

Audio recording

Photographic record of activity

Camera with NEF res. setting

30 - 45 minutes

 

Afternoon sessionActivityResources/ConsiderationsDuration
Understanding caring practices/systems

Each participant is asked to recollect an instance where they had to solve a problem and what steps/actions did they take to solve it? Two contexts: a) an everyday event, b) a significant health-related event (related to them, their baby or family member. This could be a discussion or we could ask them to draw the events to attain a visual record.

Metaphor questions as a lead in for the LSP activity: 'if the health service was an animal, what type of animal would it be?'

Audio recording

Photographic record of activity

Paper, coloured pens

40 - 60 minutes
Understanding participants' health priorities

Card sorting

  • Motherhood/parenting roles and practices
  • Object-child/object-mother relation in parenting practices
  • Discussion capturing participants' view about their health priorities: family, local, regional and national. Participant views could be clustered and hierarchically ordered. What are the issues that mean the most to them as an individual? Based upon your maternity care package experience, if you could change one

Audio recording

Cards/visual triggers

Paper, coloured pens and post-its

Photographic record of activity

40 - 60 minutes
Aspirational vision of the future in a maternity context: individual, parents, family, community 

LSP activities:

a) build a simple model that describes your typical day in your community

b) If you could affect change (in a maternity context) build an aspirational model that reflects this future: service, experience, relationships, products

Audio recording

Photographic record of activity

Lego

40 - 60 minutes