Arts-based research and knowledge translation: Some key concerns for health-care professionals

Parsons, Janet; Boydell, Katherine M.

doi:10.3109/13561820.2011.647128

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“…Artsbased KT entails collaboration between individuals from diverse professional backgrounds and infused in distinct disciplinary traditions. This boundary-crossing work of incorporating humanities, social, and medical sciences is recognized as representing a paradigm shift whereby KT is seen as a creative, complex, and dynamic process, rather than one that is passive or linear (Jones, 2006;Parsons and Boydell, 2012). Our participants identified this collaborative work as opening a space for enhanced relationships, yet also highlighted the time and effort as well as tensions associated with differing theoretical traditions, ways of working, and expectations.…”

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“…Anticipated outcomes may range from certain practice change to more subtle shifts in perspective that inform future clinical encounters (Parsons et al, 2013). Much work remains in order to determine what outcomes should be sought from arts-based KT interventions and the best metrics (or otherwise) for evaluating them (Parsons and Boydell, 2012).…”

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“…Interdisciplinary collaboration among health, social sciences, humanities and the arts is receiving growing interest from many members of the academic community (see for example, Parsons and Boydell, 2012;Kontos and Naglie, 2006;Kontos et al, 2010;Lafrenière and Cox, 2012). This attention is characterized by enthusiasm for new forms of knowledge translation (KT).…”

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Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: transcending hegemonic conventions

Boydell

Hodgins

Gladstone

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Qualitative Research

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Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy and the use of the arts in producing and disseminating research. Four central areas of tension associated with academic legitimacy are described: balancing structure versus openness and flexibility; academic obligations of truth and accuracy; resisting typical notions of what counts in academia; and expectations vis-à-vis measuring the impact of ABHR. We argue for the need to reconsider what counts as knowledge and to reconceptualize notions of evaluation and rigor in order to effectively support the effective production and dissemination of ABHR.

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Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: transcending hegemonic conventions

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Gladstone

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“…Finally, the participants were able to provide important feedback concerning text-heavy versus image-rich versions of the Health and Safety at Work posters, indicating that visual portrayals of key messages were more clearly understood than text-heavy versions. Employing visual representations of the research process served to capture participants' experiences of the study itself, further enhancing analytic rigour, and offering an alternate format for representing the findings [23][24][25]. The study contributes to our understanding of how viewers interpret visual images and how they serve to enhance understanding of key concepts in the field of occupational health and safety.…”

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Rights, responsibilities and (re)presentation: Using drawings to convey health and safety messages among immigrant workers

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Parsons

Brown

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Abstract. BACKGROUND:Immigrant workers who are new to Canada are considered a vulnerable population under the Ontario Ministry of Labour Prevention Strategy for workplace safety. Posters outlining workplace safety rights and responsibilities may not be understandable to new immigrants. OBJECTIVE: To explore visual approaches to making health and safety messages more understandable to new immigrants. METHODS: This pilot study used arts-based qualitative research methods. Key messages from the Ministry of Labour Health & Safety at Work poster were (re)represented as images by an artist. Recent immigrants engaged in individual interviews and then took part in a focus group, in order to elicit their experiences of health and safety practices, their understanding and feedback concerning the Ministry poster, and the images created. RESULTS: An image-rich version of the poster was developed. The combination of drawings and minimal text was preferred and considered helpful by participants. Barriers to health and safety and work challenges for new immigrants were highlighted. Visual analysis yielded new versions of the poster, as well as a pictorial representation of the research process and study findings. CONCLUSIONS:The study demonstrates the value of using image-rich posters with immigrant workers, and the effectiveness of using arts-based methods within the research process.

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“…An art‐health program was reported to induce a deep sense of healing in a remote Indigenous community . Indigenous communities and organisations commonly use the arts for health promotion and knowledge translation . A national survey of Australian organisations however found there are often cultural challenges in accessing suitable artworks, finding suitable role models to promote messages, and addressing the diversity of Indigenous target groups for tobacco control messages .…”

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“Building strength in coming together”: A mixed methods study using the arts to explore smoking with staff working in Indigenous tobacco control

Gould

Stevenson

Bovill

et al. 2018

Health Prom J of Aust

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The workshop increased the understanding and likelihood of using the arts for tobacco control. Artworks revealed contemporary challenges impacting on equity; health staff expressed optimism for being engaged in their work. SO WHAT?: The Framework Convention for Tobacco Control supports novel techniques to increase the reach and relevance of health messages for diverse populations. This study successfully demonstrated how a novel, positively framed art-based technique proved to be advantageous for health professionals, working in an area of Indigenous tobacco control, where behavioural change can be complex.

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Arts-based research and knowledge translation: Some key concerns for health-care professionals

Cited by 55 publications

References 14 publications

Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: transcending hegemonic conventions

Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: transcending hegemonic conventions

Rights, responsibilities and (re)presentation: Using drawings to convey health and safety messages among immigrant workers

“Building strength in coming together”: A mixed methods study using the arts to explore smoking with staff working in Indigenous tobacco control

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