Using Theater of the Oppressed in Nursing Education: Rehearsing to be change agents.

Love, Katie

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“…The methods developed by Boal and Freire have been applied over several decades now to curricula and training development to promote participation, personal and collective reflection, and transformative actions in oppressive or ethically-complex situations [30,31]. This includes applications in medical contexts, such as in medical and nursing education [32,33,34,35,36,37].…”

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Can Forum Play Contribute to Counteracting Abuse in Health Care? A Pilot Intervention Study in Sri Lanka

Swahnberg

Zbikowski

Wijewardene

et al. 2019

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Obstetric violence refers to the mistreatment of women in pregnancy and childbirth care by their health providers. It is linked to poor quality of care, lack of trust in health systems, and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Evidence of interventions to reduce and prevent obstetric violence is limited. We developed a training intervention using a participatory theatre technique called Forum Play inspired by the Theatre of the Oppressed for health providers in Sri Lanka. This paper assesses the potential of the training method to increase staff awareness of obstetric violence and promote taking action to reduce or prevent it. We conducted four workshops with 20 physicians and 30 nurses working in three hospitals in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Participants completed a questionnaire before and three-to-four months after the intervention. At follow-up, participants more often reported that they had been involved in situations of obstetric violence, indicating new knowledge of the phenomenon and/or an increase in their ability to conceptualise it. The intervention appears promising for improving the abilities of health care providers to recognise obstetric violence, the first step in counteracting it. The study demonstrates the value of developing further studies to assess the longitudinal impacts of theatre-based training interventions to reduce obstetric violence and, ultimately, improve patient care.

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Can Forum Play Contribute to Counteracting Abuse in Health Care? A Pilot Intervention Study in Sri Lanka

Swahnberg

Zbikowski

Wijewardene

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“…As such, addressing AHC in childbirth requires a host of multifaceted interventions, ranging from small structural changes to more complex behavioral change [ 22 , 23 , 28 ]. FP, and other Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, have been applied in a diverse range of health, education and social work studies to rehearse options for solving problems at individual, group and societal levels [ 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 ]. To change behaviors in real-life settings, it is necessary for individuals to have perceived self-efficacy or belief in their ability to change their own behavior and/or to challenge other’s behaviors [ 47 ].…”

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Feasibility of Participatory Theater Workshops to Increase Staff Awareness of and Readiness to Respond to Abuse in Health Care: A Qualitative Study of a Pilot Intervention Using Forum Play among Sri Lankan Health Care Providers

Infanti

Zbikowski

Wijewardene

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Women globally experience mistreatment by health providers during childbirth. Researchers have identified strategies to counteract this type of abuse in health care, but few have been evaluated. We used a theater technique, Forum Play, in a brief training intervention to increase awareness of abuse in health care and promote taking action to reduce or prevent it. The intervention was implemented in four workshops with 50 participating physicians and nurses from three hospitals in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This article reports the views of 23 workshop participants who also took part in four focus group discussions on the acceptability and feasibility of the method. The participants reported that the intervention method stimulated dialogue and critical reflection and increased their awareness of the everyday nature of abuses experienced by patients. Participants appreciated the participatory format of Forum Play, which allowed them to re-enact scenarios they had experienced and rehearse realistic actions to improve patient care in these situations. Structural factors were reported as limitations to the effectiveness of the intervention, including under-developed systems for protecting patient rights and reporting health provider abuses. Nonetheless, the study indicates the acceptability and feasibility of a theater-based training intervention for reducing the mistreatment of patients by health care providers in Sri Lanka.

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“…Like the Auerbach & Baruch article (2012), Mahajan pays special attention to the aesthetic features of his film, thuspositioning it as art rather than didactic polemic. Yet this stringent critique of medical education is embraced by the students and faculty who attend a showing of the video, and who apparently are not threatened by its subversive subtext Love's (2012). incorporation of Theater of the Oppressed (TO), the origins of which lie in confronting social injustice in South America in the 1970s, interrogates issues of power and hierarchy in healthcare practices.…”

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Whither (Whether) Medical Humanities? The Future of Humanities and Arts in Medical Education

Shapiro¹

2012

Journal for Learning through the Arts

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Using Theater of the Oppressed in Nursing Education: Rehearsing to be change agents.

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Can Forum Play Contribute to Counteracting Abuse in Health Care? A Pilot Intervention Study in Sri Lanka

Can Forum Play Contribute to Counteracting Abuse in Health Care? A Pilot Intervention Study in Sri Lanka

Feasibility of Participatory Theater Workshops to Increase Staff Awareness of and Readiness to Respond to Abuse in Health Care: A Qualitative Study of a Pilot Intervention Using Forum Play among Sri Lankan Health Care Providers

Whither (Whether) Medical Humanities? The Future of Humanities and Arts in Medical Education

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