Garry Fran, MacFarlane Anne, Murphy Tighe Sylvia, Punch Pattie, Phelan Helen
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and Health Research Institute (HRI), University of Limerick, Limerick, County Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland.
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Participatory Health Research Unit, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland.
HRB Open Res. 2023 Dec 6;6:74. doi: 10.12688/hrbopenres.13817.1. eCollection 2023.
There is a growing awareness of the need to include people's lived experiences in health decision-making. While much progress has been made in this field, exclusionary patterns persist regarding migrant participation in health research. The aim of this scoping review was to examine the available literature around the use of music as an arts-based research (ABR) method in migrant health research in order to extend knowledge of creative methods and tools used for migrant participation in health research.
Our review follows a scoping review methodology. Searches were conducted in 11 electronic databases between June and August, 2020. We identified 14 eligible references published between January 2009 and August 2020. We analysed how music is utilised as an arts-based research method in community-based health and wellbeing contexts primarily with refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, and members of resettled immigrant communities.
The findings show that music's role is most prominent as a tool for recruitment and engagement followed by its use as a tool for dissemination. Music is effective as a means to co-produce and communicate knowledge of lived experiences of migration and related wellbeing issues.
Our recommendations for further research include the need for increased detail on the musical element in ABR projects; Explicit identification of such research as ABR; Greater recognition of a multi-arts understanding of music in the context of ABR; Harnessing the potential of music in ABR across the research cycle. We conclude that arts-based research using music shows promise for capturing the complexity of migrants' lives and health issues in an ethical way. It warrants further investigation in empirical studies in multiple clinical and community settings to understand its processes and impacts on the evidence base for migrant health.
人们越来越意识到有必要将人们的生活经历纳入健康决策之中。虽然该领域已取得很大进展，但在移民参与健康研究方面，排他性模式依然存在。本范围综述的目的是研究关于音乐作为一种基于艺术的研究（ABR）方法在移民健康研究中的应用的现有文献，以扩展对用于移民参与健康研究的创新方法和工具的认识。
我们的综述遵循范围综述方法。于2020年6月至8月在11个电子数据库中进行检索。我们确定了2009年1月至2020年8月期间发表的14篇符合条件的参考文献。我们分析了音乐如何在以社区为基础的健康和福祉背景下，主要是与难民、寻求庇护者、无证移民以及重新安置的移民社区成员相关的研究中，被用作一种基于艺术的研究方法。
研究结果表明，音乐作为招募和参与工具的作用最为突出，其次是作为传播工具。音乐作为共同产生和交流移民生活经历及相关福祉问题知识的一种手段是有效的。
我们对进一步研究的建议包括需要更详细地说明ABR项目中的音乐元素；明确将此类研究认定为ABR；在ABR背景下更充分地认识对音乐的多艺术理解；在整个研究周期中发挥音乐在ABR中的潜力。我们得出结论，使用音乐的基于艺术的研究有望以符合伦理的方式捕捉移民生活和健康问题的复杂性。它值得在多个临床和社区环境的实证研究中进一步调查，以了解其过程及其对移民健康证据基础的影响。
