Reactions of Health Professionals to a Research-Based Theatre Production

Gray, Ross E.; Fitch, Margaret I.; Labrecque, Manon; Greenberg, Marlene

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“…An emerging model of knowledge translation conceives of the process as being dynamic, iterative, and situated within a com-plex system of interactions between researchers and stakeholders [31,32]. Theatre is a unique and powerful medium to access new knowledge by invoking intuitive, affective and cognitive responses [21]. In interactive ethnodrama, also known as participatory or applied theatre, scenarios are developed by a core group of participants to reflect the underlying stories of their everyday lived experience.…”

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Ethnodrama: An innovative knowledge translation tool in the management of lymphedema.

Ahmed

Quinlan

McMullen

et al. 2015

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Background: Lymphedema can cause significant physical impairment and quality-of-life issues. Yet there is a gap in knowledge about lymphedema among breast cancer survivors (BCS), and health care professionals (HCP). Ethnodrama is an innovative knowledge translation strategy that uses theatrical performances for dissemination of research results. We evaluated the impact of live ethnodrama on HCP' and BCS' awareness and attitudes in relation to impact of lymphedema on BCS' lives. Methods: Ethnodrama performances were developed by script writers and a theatre director in collaboration with the investigators and BCS using data from published research and pre-performances workshops. Six interactive live performances were given to audiences of BCS, HCP, and community members in four cities across Canada. After watching these live performances, members of the audiences were asked to complete a paper-based questionnaire regarding their knowledge of lymphedema, and their attitudes and practices toward lymphedema. Results: Of 238 audience members who participated in the survey, 55 (23%) were BCS and 85 (37.5%) were HCP. Most members rated the performances as very effective in changing their (84%) or other people's (93%) understanding of lymphedema; 96% reported being motivated to seek additional information on lymphedema, and 72% of HCP anticipated changes in their practices related to lymphedema screening. Overall no significant differences were noted in responses to ethnodrama between BCS and HCP. Open-ended responses were supportive of the findings from the closed-ended questions. Conclusions:Our results indicate that ethnodrama performances effectively convey information and positively affecting changes in HCP' and BCS' attitudes toward lymphedema.

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“…Arts-based methods are a unique way of creating new knowledge and translating the findings [21][22][23]. A recent review outlines the many possibilities and connections between the arts and health research [24].…”

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Ethnodrama: An innovative knowledge translation tool in the management of lymphedema.

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Quinlan

McMullen

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“…The study of literature (e.g., fiction, poetry) helps clinicians to attend to the human dimensions of medicine, understand patients' experiences of sickness, recognize the clinician's role in alleviating suffering, and appreciate the power of the relationship between patient and clinician (Charon et al, 1995). In addition to literature, theatrical performances contribute significantly to medical education and help practitioners and medical trainees reflect on the care they provide and increase their understanding of patient care issues (Gray et al, 2003;Lorenz et al, 2004;Rosenbaum, Ferguson, & Herwaldt, 2005;Shapiro & Hunt, 2003).…”

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Improving Client-Centered Brain Injury Rehabilitation Through Research-Based Theater

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Traumatic brain injury often results in physical, behavioral, and cognitive impairments perceived by health care practitioners to limit or exclude clients' full participation in treatment decision making. We used qualitative methods to evaluate the short-and long-term impact of "After the Crash: A Play About Brain Injury", a research-based drama designed to teach client-centered care principles to brain injury rehabilitation staff. We conducted interviews and observations with staff of two inpatient neurorehabilitation units in Ontario, Canada. Findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the play in influencing practice through the avoidance of medical jargon to improve clients' understanding and participation in treatment; newfound appreciation for clients' needs for emotional expression and sexual intimacy; increased involvement of family caregivers; and avoidance of staff discussions as if clients were unaware. These findings suggest that researchbased drama can effect reflexivity, empathy, and practice change to facilitate a client-centered culture of practice in brain injury rehabilitation.

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“…(Gray et al, 2003), based upon a study about the experiences of men with prostate cancer and their spouses is another example of the effectiveness of drama as a dissemination strategy. In post-performance evaluations, physicians (primarily oncologists and urologists), nurses, and allied health professionals indicated that attending the performance resulted in a new level of awareness or understanding of how patients are affected by cancer diagnosis and treatment (Gray et al, 2003). This suggests that research-based drama, in communicating research findings more directly and effectively to health professionals, can change attitudes, and, in doing so, holds the potential to change practice as well.…”

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Expressions of personhood in Alzheimer’s: moving from ethnographic text to performing ethnography

Kontos

Naglie

2006

Qualitative Research

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Always cite the published version, so the author(s) will receive recognition through services that track citation counts, e.g. Scopus. If you need to cite the page number of the TSpace version (original manuscript or accepted manuscript) because you cannot access the published version, then cite the TSpace version in addition to the published version using the permanent URI (handle) found on the record page. In Western science, the written text, the most objective, decontextualized, and disengaged discursive style of communication, is the privileged mode of scholarship (Conquergood, 1991;Denzin, 1997;Paget, 1993) This paper discusses the alliance between ethnography and performance, an interdisciplinary configuration referred to interchangeably as ethnoperformance (Paget, 1993), ethnodrama (Mienczakowski, 2001Mienczakowski et al., 2002), and the anthropology of performance (Turner, 1986). It is a genre within ethnography that is appealing to a new generation of scholars committed not just to describing the world but also to changing it (Denzin, 2000). As an example of this new aesthetic practice we discuss the transformation of ethnographic research on embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease (Kontos, 2004b) into a dramatic production for nurses and ancillary health care professionals working with persons who are cognitively impaired. The rationale for using drama to translate and disseminate these research findings is threefold: 1) to provide an accessible presentation of research to audiences of diverse disciplinary backgrounds; 2) to recover the experiential immediacy of the body present in the original data gathering setting which, in the case of this dramatic production, permits a powerful demonstration of how selfhood is manifested in gesture and action; and 3) to create a space to engage in a form of social inquiry that resonates simultaneously with critique and the envisioning of new possibilities (Denzin, 1997). Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's is a production that not only re-presents embodied expressions of selfhood in Alzheimer's disease, but also critically exposes depersonalizing tendencies of treatment contexts and caregiving relationships that are a consequence of an assumed loss of selfhood that is widely associated with the cognitive deficiencies that lie at the core of dementia. It is our contention that this ethnodramatic production has the potential to open a space for seeing

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Reactions of Health Professionals to a Research-Based Theatre Production

Abstract: Narrative and dramatic forms are viable ways to communicate vital information about the possibilities for professionals to be helpful to patients--and they are the wave of the future for educational and dissemination practices.

Cited by 62 publications

References 14 publications

Ethnodrama: An innovative knowledge translation tool in the management of lymphedema.

Ethnodrama: An innovative knowledge translation tool in the management of lymphedema.

Improving Client-Centered Brain Injury Rehabilitation Through Research-Based Theater

Expressions of personhood in Alzheimer’s: moving from ethnographic text to performing ethnography

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