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Chandler CRA, Catanzaro M, Siette J. "I know now that it's something that you can do something about": Deductive thematic analysis of experiences at an arts-based dementia risk reduction exhibit. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2024; 123:105440. [PMID: 38678743 DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2024.105440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2024] [Revised: 04/05/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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Dementia is one of the leading global health crises. Despite the devastating impacts of the illness, general population knowledge pertaining to risk reduction is still limited. Previous research on the impact of dementia risk reduction campaigns has largely focused on awareness rather than behaviour change. Our research introduced an arts-based exhibit to address dementia modifiability, aiming to enhance effectiveness by providing an immersive experience for altering adults' perceptions of risk reduction and lifestyle behaviours. Interviews were conducted with adults (n = 38 [13 male, 25 female]) who attended an interactive dementia awareness and risk reduction exhibit. Data was analysed using deductive thematic analysis within the Health Belief Model framework to determine key mechanisms of behaviour change. Four key themes encompassing exhibit significance and factors underlying behaviour change were identified. Participants recounted positive experiences, particularly being engaged by the artistic aspects of the exhibit, and recorded heightened engagement in behaviours supporting dementia risk reduction post-exhibit. Areas for improvement included the need for a take-home summary and variation in formats. Participants described prior encounters with dementia and their age as factors which influenced their engagement with dementia risk reduction behaviour, with younger participants reporting lesser engagement with risk reduction information. Our research found that arts-based educational initiatives have the potential to advance public understanding and promote behavioural changes for dementia risk reduction. Our study recommends enhancing the impact of future interventions by employing innovative formats and tailoring them to varied audiences, with a specific emphasis on engaging younger individuals.
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- Connor R A Chandler
- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia
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- Design, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Rydalmere, NSW, 2116, Australia
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- The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia.
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Smith PT, Sonke JK. When Artists Go to Work: On the Ethics of Engaging the Arts in Public Health. Hastings Cent Rep 2023; 53 Suppl 2:S99-S104. [PMID: 37963045 DOI: 10.1002/hast.1530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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Collaboration between the arts and health sectors is gaining momentum. Artists are contributing significantly to public health efforts such as vaccine confidence campaigns. Artists and the arts are well positioned to contribute to the social conditions needed to build trust in the health sector. Health professionals, organizations, and institutions should recognize not only the power that can be derived from the insights, artefacts, and expertise of artists and the arts to create the conditions that make trust possible. The health sector must also recognize that, while it can gain much from partnership with artists, artists risk much-namely, the public's trust-when they are in such partnerships. This essay unpacks these claims and considers the care and ethical considerations that must be brought to these partnerships to yield constructive pathways for ethical collaboration as well as for both establishing public trust and continuing to hold the health care profession accountable for becoming more trustworthy.
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Davico C, Rossi Ghiglione A, Lonardelli E, Di Franco F, Ricci F, Marcotulli D, Graziano F, Begotti T, Amianto F, Calandri E, Tirocchi S, Carlotti EG, Lenzi M, Vitiello B, Mazza M, Caroppo E. Performing Arts in Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Scoping Review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:14948. [PMID: 36429666 PMCID: PMC9690866 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192214948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Suicide is a leading cause of death all over the world. Suicide prevention is possible and should be pursued through a variety of strategies. The importance of the arts for positive health outcomes has been increasingly evidenced. This scoping review aimed to identify the possible role of the performing arts-defined as a type of art performed through actions such as music, dance, or drama executed alive by an artist or other participant in the presence of an audience,-in suicide prevention programs. PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, ProQuest Psychology Database, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched using terms in English for publications of original studies that included performing arts in suicide prevention programs. Thirty-five studies conducted between 1981 and 2021 were identified, of which only five were randomized clinical trials and four quasi-randomized studies. Interventions used different performing arts to improve awareness, self-efficacy, and soft skills relevant to suicide prevention. Studies were addressed mainly to gatekeepers but also directly to at-risk populations. While the study designs do not allow inferences to be drawn about the effectiveness of performing arts in preventing suicide, the review found that performing arts have been successfully implemented in suicide prevention programs. Research to evaluate the possible therapeutic benefit is warranted.
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- Chiara Davico
- Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, 10100 Turin, Italy
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- Institute of Psychiatry and Psychology, Department of Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Orthopedics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Mental Health, Local Health Authority Roma 2, 00159 Rome, Italy
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Ssensamba JT, Nakafeero M, Musana H, Amollo M, Ssennyonjo A, Kiwanuka SN. Primary care provider notions on instituting community-based geriatric support in Uganda. BMC Geriatr 2022; 22:258. [PMID: 35351013 PMCID: PMC8962536 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-02897-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Understanding of the most economical and sustainable models of providing geriatric care to Africa’s rising ageing population is critical. In Uganda, the number of old adults (60 years and above) continues to rise against absence of policies and guidelines, and models for providing care to this critical population. Our study explored public primary health care provider views on how best community-based geriatric support (CBGS) could be instituted as an adaptable model for delivering geriatric care in Uganda’s resource-limited primary public health care settings. Methods We interviewed 20 key informants from four districts of Bukomansimbi, Kalungu, Rakai, and Lwengo in Southern Central Uganda. Respondents were leads (in-charges) of public primary health units that had spent at least 6 months at the fore said facilities. All interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed based on Hsieh and Shannon’s approach to conventional manifest content analysis. Results During analysis, four themes emerged: 1) Structures to leverage for CBGS, 2) How to promote CBGS, 3) Who should be involved in CBGS, and 4) What activities need to be leveraged to advance CBGS? The majority of the respondents viewed using the existing village health team and local leadership structures as key to the successful institutionalization of CBGS; leveraging community education and sensitization using radio, television, and engaging health workers, family relatives, and neighbors. Health outreach activities were mentioned as one of the avenues that could be leveraged to provide CBGS. Conclusion Provider notions pointed to CBGS as a viable model for instituting geriatric care in Uganda’s public primary healthcare system. However, this requires policymakers to leverage existing village health team and local governance structures, conduct community education and sensitization about CBGS, and bring onboard health workers, family relatives, and neighbors. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12877-022-02897-9.
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- Jude Thaddeus Ssensamba
- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Health, Center for Innovations in Health Africa, Kampala, Uganda. .,Health Care Programmes, VIVES University of Applied Sciences, Kortrijk, Belgium. .,School of Public Health, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Health, Center for Innovations in Health Africa, Kampala, Uganda.,School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Health, Center for Innovations in Health Africa, Kampala, Uganda.,School of Public Health, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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- School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Planning, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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- School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Planning, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Newland J, Lestari D, Poedjanadi MN, Kelly-Hanku A. Co-locating art and health: engaging civil society to create an enabling environment to respond to HIV in Indonesia. Sex Health 2021; 18:84-94. [PMID: 33612154 DOI: 10.1071/sh20125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Background This paper will report on the successful co-location of a community-based arts and sexual health project that aimed to engage, educate and create testing, treatment and care pathways at a co-located mobile sexual health clinic and community-controlled art gallery in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. METHODS Mixed methods were used to evaluate the project, including a visitor (n = 1181) and artist (n = 85) log book, a convenience audience survey (n = 231), and qualitative semi-structured interviews (n = 13) with artists and audience to explore the effect of arts-based activities on access to sexual health information and services, and stigma and discrimination. RESULTS In total, 85 artists curated five separate exhibitions that were attended by 1181 people, of which 62% were aged ≤24 years. Gallery attendance improved awareness and participatory and interactive engagement with sexual health information through a medium described as interesting, fun, cool, and unique. The co-located clinic facilitated informal pathways to sexual health services, including HIV/AIDS testing, treatment, and care. Importantly, the project created shared understandings and empathy that challenged stereotypes and myths, reducing stigmatising beliefs and practices. CONCLUSIONS Arts-based programs are transformative and can be effectively implemented, replicated and scaled up in low-resource settings to create awareness and initiate for HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care. Art-based health programs engages people in their communities, mobilises civil society, builds enabling environments to reduce stigma and discrimination and improves access to testing and prevention; essential features needed to end AIDS in Indonesia (and the Southeast Asia region) while improving the lives of those most vulnerable to infection.
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- Jamee Newland
- Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney, Wallace Wurth Building, High Street, Kensington, NSW, Australia; and Corresponding author.
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- Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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- Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney, Wallace Wurth Building, High Street, Kensington, NSW, Australia; and Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea
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Sonke J, Pesata V, Lee JB, Graham-Pole J. Nurse Perceptions of Artists as Collaborators in Interprofessional Care Teams. Healthcare (Basel) 2017; 5:healthcare5030050. [PMID: 28867778 PMCID: PMC5618178 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare5030050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Revised: 08/21/2017] [Accepted: 08/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Increased attention is being given to interprofessional collaboration in healthcare, which has been shown to improve patient satisfaction, patient safety, healthcare processes, and health outcomes. As the arts and artists are being more widely incorporated into healthcare settings throughout the world, professional artists are contributing to interprofessional care teams. A secondary directed content analysis of interviews with 31 nurses on a medical-surgical care unit investigated the roles and impacts of professional artists on the interprofessional care team. The investigation utilized established domains of interprofessional care, including values and ethics, roles and responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams and teamwork, and created the domain of quality of care. Findings suggest that artists are valued by nurses as members of the interprofessional care team, that they enhance the provision of patient-centered care, and that they improve quality of care by providing holistic dimensions of caring, including cognitive and social engagement, and meaningful interaction. The presence of artists on interprofessional teams provides a cost-effective and welcome resource for clinical staff and builds a culture in which creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration are more highly valued and activated.
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- Jill Sonke
- Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida, P.O. Box 115900, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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- Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida, P.O. Box 115900, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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- Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida, P.O. Box 115900, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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- Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida, P.O. Box 115900, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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