Comic Relief: Graphic Medicine as Care for Caregivers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 13
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory
研究概览
简要总结
Community care workers have been stretched to their capacity and exposed to ongoing trauma through their work addressing persistent health disparities in Inland Empire communities. The coronavirus pandemic and gap in Covid-19 mortality for minorities have highlighted the chronic stressors of racial injustice and dispossession that predate the pandemic and explain why these populations have higher comorbidities. While the pandemic has exacerbated ongoing stressors, the map of this crisis of care may show the way to deeper solutions. The premise of this project is that care occurs in a continuum of caretakers who also require care. The proposal seeks to address and complicate the question: who cares for the caregivers? This study will interrogate the benefits of providing a comics-making workshop, combined with trauma education and somatic experiencing, as a set of resiliency tools for care providers working with traumatized populations.
详细描述
The investigators will recruit up to 20 care workers from community-based organizations to participate in a series of comics workshops, who may also exhibit their work locally. The team will rigorously assess participants' experiences and changes in their wellbeing over time. This project provides preliminary data and a groundwork for larger investigations of how creating a space where caretakers can come together, learn about trauma healing and resiliency building, and share their post-traumatic growth and struggles with one another, increases both the resiliency of caretakers and the larger community.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Other
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •18 years of age or more, Any care workers in the Inland Empire (Riverside or San Bernardino Counties) will be eligible to participate.
排除标准
- •There are no other specific exclusion criteria in terms of age, race, or gender, though we will aim to recruit a diverse sample that reflects the diversity in our community.
结局指标
主要结局
Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory
时间窗: 1 art workshop per week for 7 weeks
Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory (Skovholt, 2010). * sub-scale professional vitality (range - 8-40) * sub-scale personal vitality (range - 11-55) * sub-scale professional stress (range - 9-45) * sub-scale personal stress. (range - 10-50) While there is no "optimal" score, higher scores on these scales indicate better outcomes or better ability to navigate stress.
ProQOL: Professional Quality of Life
时间窗: 1 workshop per week for 7 weeks
ProQOL: Professional Quality of Life Screening (Stamm, 1997-2008) * Compassion satisfaction is about the pleasure you derive from being able to do your work well. (avg score = 37) * Burnout is associated with feelings of hopelessness and difficulties in dealing with work or in doing your job effectively. (avg score = 22) * Compassion fatigue, also called secondary trauma and related to Vicarious Trauma, is about your work-related, secondary exposure to extremely stressful events.(avg score = 13) Higher scores on the compassion scale are better; lower scores on burnout and compassion indicate better outcomes.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Jennifer Syvertsen
Associate Professor Anthropology Department
University of California, Riverside