title: Mental health lived experience academics in tertiary education: the views of nurse academics.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Australian national mental health strategy emphasises inclusion of people diagnosed with mental illness in all areas of mental health care, policy development and education of health professionals. However, the way this inclusion has translated to Australian universities is relatively unexplored.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Explore views of nurse academics regarding service user involvement in nursing education programmes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative exploratory.
  
  
  METHODS
  Australian universities offering educational programmes in nursing at postgraduate and undergraduate levels.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty four participants from 27 Australian universities participated.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected using semi-structured telephone interviews with academics involved in teaching and/or coordinating undergraduate and/or postgraduate mental health nursing contents. Data were analysed using content analysis based on four cognitive processes: comprehending, synthesising, theorising and re-contextualising data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four major themes emerged: good idea? long way to go; conceptualising the service user academic role; strengths of lived experience led student learning; and barriers to implementation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings indicated strong support for including mental health service users in teaching nursing students. However, at most universities service user engagement was often an informal arrangement, lacking clear guidelines and limited by financial barriers and the positioning of mental health nursing within curricula.
authors.affiliation: Central Queensland University, Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Bruce Hwy, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia; Central Queensland University, Centre for Mental Health Nursing Innovation, Bruce Hwy, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia; Central Queensland University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bruce Hwy, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia. Electronic address: b.happell@cqu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Happell
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Health Sciences, Curtin University, GPO Box U 1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia. Electronic address: d.wynaden@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Dianne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wynaden
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Innovation Research Institute, Australia; School of Public Health and Curtin Health, Innovation Research Institute, Australia; Health Sciences, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia. Electronic address: j.tohotoa@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tohotoa
authors.affiliation: CQUniversity Australia, Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Australia; CQUniversity Australia, Centre for Mental Health Nursing Innovation, Australia; CQUniversity Australia, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Australia. Electronic address: c.platania-phung@cqu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Platania-Phung
authors.affiliation: Central Queensland University, Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Bruce Hwy, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia; Central Queensland University, Centre for Mental Health Nursing Innovation, Bruce Hwy, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia; Central Queensland University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bruce Hwy, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia. Electronic address: l.byrne@cqu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia. Electronic address: graham.martin@uq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: CQUniversity Australia, Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Australia; CQUniversity Australia, Centre for Mental Health Nursing Innovation, Australia; CQUniversity Australia, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Australia. Electronic address: s.a.harris@cqu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*
keywords: Lived experience; Mental health; Nurse education; Service user