Abstract How people understand mental health has important implications for designing and implementing mental health promotion, and particularly where campaigns developed in one culture are implemented in another. Hence, as part of an adaptation of the Australian Act-Belong-Commit mental health promotion campaign into the Danish context, this qualitative study explored Danish lay people’s understandings of mental health and mental health promoting factors. In total, N = 39 individuals (27 adults and 12 young people) from various regions across Denmark participated in seven focus groups interviews. Two overall and intertwined understandings of mental health emerged: mental health as a ‘state of mind’ and mental health as a relation. Overall, Danish people’s understanding of what constitutes good mental health and what people can do to keep mentally healthy were consistent with the underlying messages in the Act-Belong-Commit campaign, and hence translatable to a Danish context. Given the lack of research in the area, this study contributes to the literature on lay people’s understanding of concepts around mental health and keeping mentally healthy.

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“精神健康是使生命值得生活的要素”：探索非专业人士对丹麦心理健康的理解

摘要人们如何理解心理健康对设计和实施心理健康促进具有重要意义，特别是在一种文化中开展的运动在另一种文化中开展的情况。因此，作为将澳大利亚“全民公会”精神卫生促进运动改编为丹麦语的一部分，这项定性研究探索了丹麦人对精神健康和精神健康促进因素的理解。总共，来自丹麦各地的N = 39个人（27位成年人和12位年轻人）参加了七个焦点小组访谈。人们对心理健康产生了两种总体的，相互交织的理解：心理健康是一种“心理状态”，心理健康是一种关系。总体，丹麦人对什么是良好的心理健康以及人们可以做些什么来保持心理健康的理解与“全民公投”运动中的基本信息是一致的，因此可以翻译成丹麦语。由于该领域缺乏研究，本研究为有关外行人对心理健康和保持心理健康的概念的理解提供了文献。