Mental Wellbeing
Conditions
Keywords
comics, art workshops, trauma, compassion fatigue, burnout
Brief summary
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.
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
University of California, Riverside
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
OTHER
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
18 years of age or more, Any care workers in the Inland Empire (Riverside or San Bernardino Counties) will be eligible to participate.
Exclusion criteria
There are no other specific
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory | 1 art workshop per week for 7 weeks | Skovholt Practitioner Professional Resiliency and Self-Care Inventory (Skovholt, 2010). * sub-scale professional vitality (range - 8-40) * sub-scale personal vitality (range - 11-55) * sub-scale professional stress (range - 9-45) * sub-scale personal stress. (range - 10-50) While there is no optimal score, higher scores on these scales indicate better outcomes or better ability to navigate stress. |
| ProQOL: Professional Quality of Life | 1 workshop per week for 7 weeks | ProQOL: Professional Quality of Life Screening (Stamm, 1997-2008) * Compassion satisfaction is about the pleasure you derive from being able to do your work well. (avg score = 37) * Burnout is associated with feelings of hopelessness and difficulties in dealing with work or in doing your job effectively. (avg score = 22) * Compassion fatigue, also called secondary trauma and related to Vicarious Trauma, is about your work-related, secondary exposure to extremely stressful events.(avg score = 13) Higher scores on the compassion scale are better; lower scores on burnout and compassion indicate better outcomes. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed