Applying co-design health literacy development in Australian prisons: protocol for system-wide application of the Optimising Health Literacy and Access (Ophelia) process

Ethical approval to undertake Phase 1 of the Ophelia process has been granted from the following Human Research Ethics Committees: Swinburne University of Technology (Ref: 20236977-15461), Justice Health NSW (Ref: 2022/ETH01433), Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (Ref: 2007/22) and the Corrective Services Ethics Committee (Ref: D2022/1452326). Dissemination of the study findings will be the Justice Health NSW codesign process and ownership of the project through authentic engagement with people with lived experience and health and corrective staff. It will also be disseminated through publication in a PhD thesis, peer-reviewed research papers and conference presentations.