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Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain
INTRODUCTION: Indigenous children and youth may be quiet about the way they express their pain and hurt which is in contrast to how health professionals are trained to assess it. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to understand how youth from 4 First Nation communities express pain using narratives and art-bas...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30324174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000682 |
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author | Latimer, Margot Sylliboy, John R. MacLeod, Emily Rudderham, Sharon Francis, Julie Hutt-MacLeod, Daphne Harman, Katherine Finley, Gordon Allen |
author_facet | Latimer, Margot Sylliboy, John R. MacLeod, Emily Rudderham, Sharon Francis, Julie Hutt-MacLeod, Daphne Harman, Katherine Finley, Gordon Allen |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Indigenous children and youth may be quiet about the way they express their pain and hurt which is in contrast to how health professionals are trained to assess it. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to understand how youth from 4 First Nation communities express pain using narratives and art-based methods to inform culturally appropriate assessment and treatment. METHODS: This qualitative investigation used a community-based participatory action methodology to recruit 42 youth between 8 and 17 years of age to share their perspectives of pain using ethnographic techniques including a Talking Circle followed by a painting workshop. Physical pain perspectives were prominent in circle conversations, but emotional pain, overlapping with physical, mental, and spiritual pain perspectives, was more evident through paintings. Art themes include causes of pain and coping strategies, providing a view into the pain and hurt youth may experience. Youth were more comfortable expressing emotional and mental pain through their artwork, not sharing verbally in conversation. RESULTS: Circle sessions and artwork data were themed using the Indigenous Medicine Wheel. Content of the circle conversations centered on physical pain, whereas paintings depicted mainly emotional pain (eg, crying or loneliness; 74% n = 31) with some overlap with physical pain (eg, injuries; 54%), mental pain (eg, coping strategies; 31%), and spiritual pain (eg, cultural symbols; 30%). Common threads included hiding pain, resilience, tribal consciousness, persistent pain, and loneliness. CONCLUSION: Once a safe space was created for First Nation youth, they provided a complex, culturally based understanding of the pain and coping experience from both an individual and community perspective. These engaging, culturally sensitive research methods provide direction for health providers regarding the importance of creating a safe space for young people to share their perspectives. |
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spelling | pubmed-61728182018-10-15 Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain Latimer, Margot Sylliboy, John R. MacLeod, Emily Rudderham, Sharon Francis, Julie Hutt-MacLeod, Daphne Harman, Katherine Finley, Gordon Allen Pain Rep INNOVATIONS IN Pediatric Pain Research and Care INTRODUCTION: Indigenous children and youth may be quiet about the way they express their pain and hurt which is in contrast to how health professionals are trained to assess it. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to understand how youth from 4 First Nation communities express pain using narratives and art-based methods to inform culturally appropriate assessment and treatment. METHODS: This qualitative investigation used a community-based participatory action methodology to recruit 42 youth between 8 and 17 years of age to share their perspectives of pain using ethnographic techniques including a Talking Circle followed by a painting workshop. Physical pain perspectives were prominent in circle conversations, but emotional pain, overlapping with physical, mental, and spiritual pain perspectives, was more evident through paintings. Art themes include causes of pain and coping strategies, providing a view into the pain and hurt youth may experience. Youth were more comfortable expressing emotional and mental pain through their artwork, not sharing verbally in conversation. RESULTS: Circle sessions and artwork data were themed using the Indigenous Medicine Wheel. Content of the circle conversations centered on physical pain, whereas paintings depicted mainly emotional pain (eg, crying or loneliness; 74% n = 31) with some overlap with physical pain (eg, injuries; 54%), mental pain (eg, coping strategies; 31%), and spiritual pain (eg, cultural symbols; 30%). Common threads included hiding pain, resilience, tribal consciousness, persistent pain, and loneliness. CONCLUSION: Once a safe space was created for First Nation youth, they provided a complex, culturally based understanding of the pain and coping experience from both an individual and community perspective. These engaging, culturally sensitive research methods provide direction for health providers regarding the importance of creating a safe space for young people to share their perspectives. Wolters Kluwer 2018-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6172818/ /pubmed/30324174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000682 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The International Association for the Study of Pain. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. |
spellingShingle | INNOVATIONS IN Pediatric Pain Research and Care Latimer, Margot Sylliboy, John R. MacLeod, Emily Rudderham, Sharon Francis, Julie Hutt-MacLeod, Daphne Harman, Katherine Finley, Gordon Allen Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain |
title | Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain |
title_full | Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain |
title_fullStr | Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain |
title_full_unstemmed | Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain |
title_short | Creating a safe space for First Nations youth to share their pain |
title_sort | creating a safe space for first nations youth to share their pain |
topic | INNOVATIONS IN Pediatric Pain Research and Care |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30324174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000682 |
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