Digital Storytelling as a Patient Engagement and Research Approach With First Nations Women: How the Medicine Wheel Guided Our Debwewin Journey
When research is conducted from a Western paradigm alone, the findings and resultant policies often ignore Indigenous peoples’ health practices and fail to align with their health care priorities. There is a need for decolonized approaches within qualitative health research to collaboratively identi...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/10497323211027529 2024-09-30T14:22:41+00:00 Digital Storytelling as a Patient Engagement and Research Approach With First Nations Women: How the Medicine Wheel Guided Our Debwewin Journey Rieger, Kendra L. Bennett, Marlyn Martin, Donna Hack, Thomas F. Cook, Lillian Hornan, Bobbie george gund foundation 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323211027529 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10497323211027529 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/10497323211027529 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Qualitative Health Research volume 31, issue 12, page 2163-2175 ISSN 1049-7323 1552-7557 journal-article 2021 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211027529 2024-09-10T04:23:44Z When research is conducted from a Western paradigm alone, the findings and resultant policies often ignore Indigenous peoples’ health practices and fail to align with their health care priorities. There is a need for decolonized approaches within qualitative health research to collaboratively identify intersecting reasons behind troubling health inequities and to integrate Indigenous knowledge into current health care services. We engaged with First Nations women to explore to what extent digital storytelling could be a feasible, acceptable, and meaningful research method to inform culturally safe health care services. This novel approach created a culturally safe and ethical space for authentic patient engagement. Our conversations were profound and provided deep insights into First Nations women’s experiences with breast cancer and guidance for our future qualitative study. We found that the digital storytelling workshop facilitated a Debwewin journey, which is an ancient Anishinabe way of knowing that connects one’s heart knowledge and mind knowledge. Article in Journal/Newspaper anishina* First Nations SAGE Publications Qualitative Health Research 104973232110275 |
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When research is conducted from a Western paradigm alone, the findings and resultant policies often ignore Indigenous peoples’ health practices and fail to align with their health care priorities. There is a need for decolonized approaches within qualitative health research to collaboratively identify intersecting reasons behind troubling health inequities and to integrate Indigenous knowledge into current health care services. We engaged with First Nations women to explore to what extent digital storytelling could be a feasible, acceptable, and meaningful research method to inform culturally safe health care services. This novel approach created a culturally safe and ethical space for authentic patient engagement. Our conversations were profound and provided deep insights into First Nations women’s experiences with breast cancer and guidance for our future qualitative study. We found that the digital storytelling workshop facilitated a Debwewin journey, which is an ancient Anishinabe way of knowing that connects one’s heart knowledge and mind knowledge. |
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Rieger, Kendra L. Bennett, Marlyn Martin, Donna Hack, Thomas F. Cook, Lillian Hornan, Bobbie |
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Digital Storytelling as a Patient Engagement and Research Approach With First Nations Women: How the Medicine Wheel Guided Our Debwewin Journey |
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Digital Storytelling as a Patient Engagement and Research Approach With First Nations Women: How the Medicine Wheel Guided Our Debwewin Journey |
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Digital Storytelling as a Patient Engagement and Research Approach With First Nations Women: How the Medicine Wheel Guided Our Debwewin Journey |
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digital storytelling as a patient engagement and research approach with first nations women: how the medicine wheel guided our debwewin journey |
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