Using story and art to improve education for older patients and their caregivers

Kagan, Sarah H.

doi:10.1016/j.gerinurse.2017.12.008

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“…Health professionals are being encouraged to apply similar mediums-illustrated stories or comic strips-to communicate with older patients and their caregivers. According to behavioral science expert and RN Sarah Kagan, "(m)uch of what we provide as educational material lacks interest, overshoots reading level, and necessarily includes an enormous level of detail" (Kagan, 2018). Some researchers and science communicators have used visual narratives to engage people in preventing the spread of COVID-19.…”

Section: Visual Storytelling For Science and Health Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID ISSUE: Visual Narratives About COVID-19 Improve Message Accessibility, Self-Efficacy, and Health Precautions

Jarreau¹,

Chiang

et al. 2021

Front. Commun.

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Visual narratives are promising tools for science and health communication, especially for broad audiences in times of public health crisis, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we used the Lifeology illustrated “flashcard” course platform to construct visual narratives about COVID-19, and then assessed their impact on behavioral intentions. We conducted a survey experiment among 1,775 health app users. Participants viewed illustrated (sequential art) courses about: 1) sleep, 2) what COVID-19 is and how to protect oneself, 3) mechanisms of how the virus works in the body and risk factors for severe disease. Each participant viewed one of these courses and then answered questions about their understanding of the course, how much they learned, and their perceptions and behavioral intentions toward COVID-19. Participants generally evaluated “flashcard” courses as easy to understand. Viewing a COVID-19 “flashcard” course was also associated with improved self-efficacy and behavioral intentions toward COVID-19 disease prevention as compared to viewing a “flashcard” course about sleep science. Our findings support the use of visual narratives to improve health literacy and provide individuals with the capacity to act on health information that they may know of but find difficult to process or apply to their daily lives.

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Section: Visual Storytelling For Science and Health Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID ISSUE: Visual Narratives About COVID-19 Improve Message Accessibility, Self-Efficacy, and Health Precautions

Jarreau¹,

Chiang

et al. 2021

Front. Commun.

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“…Valuable social and emotional support in palliative care and bereavement can also be provided through the arts [ 2 ]. Furthermore, the arts have even been used to investigate brain alterations in artists arising from frontotemporal dementia [ 11 ] and dementia-related delirium and confabulation [ 12 ].…”

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“…Used as an alternative to interpreting how a person perceives his/her body image during a health problem or illness, individual narrative in the form of asking a person to draw or tell a story can also be used to help improve self-worth [ 19 ]. Individual narratives in patient education can also take the form of illustrated stories, comic strips [ 12 ] or social theatre [ 20 ].…”

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Art making and expressive art therapy in adult health and nursing care: A scoping review

Vaartio-Rajalin

Santamäki-Fischer

Jokisalo

et al. 2021

International Journal of Nursing Sciences

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Objectives While receptive art engagement is known to promote health and wellbeing, active art engagement has not been fully explored in health and nursing care. This review is to describe the existing knowledge on art making and expressive art therapy in adult health and nursing care between 2010 and 2020. Methods Relevant studies and grey literature were searched and identified between March 17 and April 10, 2020 from EBSCO, CINAHL, Medline and ERIC databases and a general Internet search. Following data charting and extraction, the data ( n = 42 papers) were summarized and reported in accordance with PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Results In the included papers, both art making and expressive art therapy were seen in different health care and nursing contexts: yet not the home care context. The emphasis of art activities were group activities for chronically or terminally ill residents, adults aged 65 years or older. A focus on personal narrative was often seen, which may explain why art activities appear to be linked to acknowledging and building new strengths and skills, making meaning of experiences, personal growth, symptom alleviation, and communication; all used to foster collaboration between patients, patients’ near-ones and health care professionals. Conclusions Art activities appear to be suitable for every context and can promote personcenteredness and the measurement of nursing outcomes, and they should be considered an essential part of health and nursing care, nursing education and care for health care personnel.

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A Feasibility Study of Designing a Family-Caregiver-Centred Dementia Care Handbook

Chang

Tseng

2019

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Multimodality and Assistive Environments

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Using story and art to improve education for older patients and their caregivers

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

COVID ISSUE: Visual Narratives About COVID-19 Improve Message Accessibility, Self-Efficacy, and Health Precautions

COVID ISSUE: Visual Narratives About COVID-19 Improve Message Accessibility, Self-Efficacy, and Health Precautions

Art making and expressive art therapy in adult health and nursing care: A scoping review

A Feasibility Study of Designing a Family-Caregiver-Centred Dementia Care Handbook

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