Comic Relief: Graphic Medicine as Care for Caregivers

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

13 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-11-14

Study Completion Date

2024-04-12

Brief Summary

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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.

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Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Mental Wellbeing

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Study Groups

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Group intervention: weekly group sessions

Outcome measures:

Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory (Skovholt, 2010) ProQOL: Professional Quality of Life Screening (Stamm, 1997-2008)

No interventions assigned to this group