Implementing Digital Storytelling for Health-Related Outcomes in Older Adults: Protocol for a Systematic Review

Stargatt, Jennifer; Bhar, Sunil; Bhowmik, Jahar; Mahmud, Abdullah Al

doi:10.2196/15512

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“…The peer-reviewed systematic review protocol [ 39 ] was developed following the PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols) guidelines [ 40 ] and registered with PROSPERO (CRD42019145922). This systematic review adhered to the recommendations of the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses) guidelines [ 41 ].…”

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Digital Storytelling for Health-Related Outcomes in Older Adults: Systematic Review

Stargatt¹,

Bhar²,

Bhowmik³

et al. 2022

J Med Internet Res

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Background Older adults face a unique set of challenges and may experience a range of psychological comorbidities. Digital storytelling is an emerging tool for sharing and recording lived experiences and may have the potential to support well-being but is yet to be systematically reviewed for use among older adults. Objective The aim of this review is to examine the methods for creating digital stories, the health-related outcomes associated with creating digital stories, and the potential for implementing digital storytelling with older adults. Methods We systematically searched electronic databases to identify articles published in English that reported on at least one health-related outcome of digital storytelling for participants aged ≥60 years. Data were extracted and synthesized using qualitative content analysis and summarized in tables. The methodological quality of the studies was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Results A total of 8 studies were included in the review. Participants were primarily community-dwelling older adults living with dementia, involving family caregivers and professional care staff. Studies have taken various approaches to digital storytelling and reported diverse benefits associated with digital storytelling, including improvements in mood, memory, social engagement, and quality of relationships. Although the potential for implementation was not widely examined, some studies have presented evidence for acceptability and feasibility. Generally, studies were of high quality, despite the absence of comparator groups and confounder analyses. Conclusions The evidence reviewed suggests that despite the various approaches taken, digital storytelling shows promise as an effective approach for supporting well-being in older adults. Trial Registration PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews CRD42019145922; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42019145922 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) RR2-10.2196/15512

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Digital Storytelling for Health-Related Outcomes in Older Adults: Systematic Review

Stargatt¹,

Bhar²,

Bhowmik³

et al. 2022

J Med Internet Res

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“…The range of participants included parents, adolescents, young adults, seniors, essential service workers, survivors of traumatic experiences, health care professionals, and health care professional students. Variables included low-health literacy, high school education, ethnic minority status, low-socioeconomic status, aging population status, and English not as a first language (Kleinman & Benson, 2006; Lipsey et al, 2020; Roche et al, 2005; Stargatt et al, 2019).…”

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“…Literature showed that storytelling, when utilized as either an element of qualitative methodology or the primary research modality, allowed for more in-depth, rich data collection, and improved comprehension (Kaplan-Myrth, 2007; Kleinman & Benson, 2006; Lipsey et al, 2020; Stargatt et al, 2019). Storytelling interventions, compared with nonstorytelling interventions, effectively improved participants’ attitude, knowledge, behavior, or clinical outcomes.…”

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What Anansi Did for Us: Storytelling’s Value in Equitably Exploring Public Health

Fakunle

Thomas

Gonzales³

et al. 2021

Health Educ Behav

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There is growing implementation of storytelling as a specific application of narrative in public health. As the field’s latest epoch evolves to consider cultural determinants, reimagination of how scientists conceptualize, operationalize, and capture populations’ unique elements is necessary, and storytelling provides a genuine and efficacious methodology that can assist with that reimagination. Professionals are creating more spaces that demonstrate how storytelling elucidates, promotes, and supports contextual factors that are not captured by orthodox methodologies. However, more opportunities are needed to exhibit storytelling’s impact on capturing the nuances in human experiences, such as those of historically and systemically underrepresented populations. This study synthesizes the past decade of research in public health and related fields that primarily utilized storytelling and reports significant implications. Additionally, this study highlights explorations in public health that primarily use storytelling as a research and practice approach. Each case study includes a description of the background and aims, elaborates on storytelling’s utilization, and discusses findings, observations, and future directions. Finally, this study discusses conceptual issues in public health raised by use of storytelling, such as how to best capture impact on human beings and the importance of context. This article’s goal is to present current evidence of critical reevaluations to the epistemological, conceptual, and practical paradigms within public health through storytelling. Additionally, this article aims to provide support and empowerment to public health scientists considering creative approaches to better acknowledge and appreciate humanity’s inherent subjectivity.

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“…Although still considered a relatively new area of research in healthcare, IDN has been considered as a useful tool for various health interventions in both adult and pediatric care, particularly for counseling and therapy purposes [86][87][88][89]. Additionally, IDNs have been studied as a tool for the education and training of health professionals [90].…”

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Digital Narratives in Extended Realities

Bruni¹,

Kadastik²,

Pedersen³

et al. 2022

Roadmapping Extended Reality

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XR technologies are increasingly considered as expressive media with special qualities for narrative representation. In this chapter, we chart some of the major challenges inherent in the implementation of digital narratives in XR. For this purpose, we consider the intersections between different research domains like classical and post-structural narratology, cognitive narratology, literary studies, computer science, game research, cognitive science, and particularly interactive digital narratives (IDN) and storytelling. As with IDN, many of the challenges of implementing narratives in XR have to do with the trade-offs between interactivity and immersion. In this direction, we aim to contribute to the bridging between the IDN and XR research domains. We elaborate on specific issues in IDN that may require particular care in XR, such as agency, embodiment, narration, "point of view technologies, " artificial agents, and AI. Additionally, we provide examples of different application domains in games, serious games, cultural experiences, healthcare, and immersive journalism. To conclude, we highlight the eminent role of narrative cognition in XR and suggest a roadmap for combining XR technologies, cognitive sciences, advanced biometric signals processing, and storytelling techniques for investigating ways we interact cognitively with stories and the effects of XR narratives on the human emotional-cognitive system.

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Implementing Digital Storytelling for Health-Related Outcomes in Older Adults: Protocol for a Systematic Review

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Digital Storytelling for Health-Related Outcomes in Older Adults: Systematic Review

Digital Storytelling for Health-Related Outcomes in Older Adults: Systematic Review

What Anansi Did for Us: Storytelling’s Value in Equitably Exploring Public Health

Digital Narratives in Extended Realities

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