I designed a poster for the 2006 Keele SAPC Conference based on the preliminary analysis of the questionnaire responses.  I was reasonably happy with the final product and thought it was quite a big poster.......I used the UCL square poster format....but the posters on display at Keele were probably twice the height of mine.....a lesson for next time I make a poster, it could be bigger.

The most interesting aspect of making the poster was incorporating an image to lighten the text; I decided to use the Chinese characters for depression which I had originally seen on the paper on culture and depression by Kleinman.  I displayed the characters separately in order to show how they combine to make 'depression' i.e. worried + melancholy + illness/disease (disability) = depression.

http://www.depression-primarycare.co.uk/images/SAPC%20Depression%20Poster%207-06.pdf

The discussions I had with colleagues at the conference were about the use of the characters which was interesting to order my thoughts and consider how western medicine tends to increasingly label patients who present with single entities of this equation as depressed, but in fact they may be presenting with a normal response to a life event; or have a persona which tends to melancholia more than explicit happiness......  Certainly an area which will need to be discussed within the thesis.

I did not get the opportunity to discuss the use of Kleinman or the EM framework with colleagues; however I will submit the poster to appropriate conferences next year and may be able to find someone else who has used Kleinman as their theoretical framework for a research study.