Dodd Savannah, Carter Gillian, Christie Andrena, Mitchell Gary
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics, Queen's University Belfast, 25 University Square, County Antrim, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, County Antrim, Belfast, BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, UK.
BMC Nurs. 2022 Aug 25;21(1):237. doi: 10.1186/s12912-022-00991-2.
Improving understanding about dementia in nursing is a priority area for educators and policymakers. This is due to poor professional understanding about dementia and suboptimal healthcare practice. While many educational interventions exist, there has been a paucity of research which has considered the use of artist-produced photobooks to improve knowledge and understanding about dementia. The aim of this study is to understand the impact of an artist-produced photobook on nurses' attitudes and beliefs about dementia.
Following a thematic analysis of four focus group interviews with 22 nurses and nursing students from Northern Ireland, three themes emerged. Theme one was about how the artist-produced photobook helped participants to humanise the person living with dementia. Theme two related to how the artist-produced photobook supported participants to actively construct their own meanings about dementia based on their previous professional and personal experiences. Theme three explored how an artist-produced photobook could be successfully used to complement existing dementia education in the future.
Using an artist-produced photobook was an innovative way to learn about dementia for nurses and nursing students. The photobook functioned as a tool underpinned by arts-based pedagogy (ABP), supporting nurses to understand the person behind the dementia disease. As such, an artist-produced photobook has the potential to be a useful complementary resource for supporting professional education about dementia.
提高护理领域对痴呆症的认识是教育工作者和政策制定者的一个优先领域。这是因为对痴呆症的专业理解不足以及医疗保健实践不够理想。虽然存在许多教育干预措施，但很少有研究考虑使用艺术家制作的摄影书来提高对痴呆症的认识和理解。本研究的目的是了解艺术家制作的摄影书对护士对痴呆症的态度和信念的影响。
对来自北爱尔兰的22名护士和护理专业学生进行了四次焦点小组访谈，并进行了主题分析，出现了三个主题。主题一是关于艺术家制作的摄影书如何帮助参与者将痴呆症患者人性化。主题二涉及艺术家制作的摄影书如何支持参与者根据他们以前的专业和个人经历积极构建自己对痴呆症的理解。主题三探讨了艺术家制作的摄影书如何在未来成功用于补充现有的痴呆症教育。
使用艺术家制作的摄影书对护士和护理专业学生来说是一种了解痴呆症的创新方式。这本摄影书作为一种基于艺术教学法（ABP）的工具，帮助护士了解痴呆症患者背后的人。因此，艺术家制作的摄影书有可能成为支持痴呆症专业教育的有用补充资源。
