ArticleIrish journal of psychological medicine2020
Storytelling and poetry in the time of coronavirus.
Article in Irish journal of psychological medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07717541 (Poetry Workshops to Enhance Patient Well-Being and Reduce Anxiety Levels), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Poetry Workshops to Enhance Patient Well-Being and Reduce Anxiety Levels
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- Interventions to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care professionals during and after a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic: a mixed methods systematic review.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- The Lawlessness of Loss: Poetry and Autoethnographic Writing as Therapy in Grief and Loss.Omega · 2026Review
- Storytelling and poetry in the time of coronavirus: medical students' perspective.Irish journal of psychological medicine · 2022Article
- Self-Care and Storytelling for Radiologists: A Feasibility Study.Current problems in diagnostic radiologyArticle
- Medical Humanities in Undergraduate Psychiatry Teaching: Learner Assessment and Mediators of Better Learning Outcomes.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
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Abstract
The coronavirus crisis occurs at a time when many clinicians have already experienced burnout. One in three Irish doctors were suffering from burnout in the 2019 National Study of Wellbeing of Hospital Doctors in Ireland; rates are also high in Irish Psychiatry. We present a perspective on the use of narrative in medicine and recognise that storytelling, and the patient history are very much at the heart of medicine. Clinician storytelling, such as Schwartz Rounds and Balint group work, has very much come to the fore in Irish Psychiatry and in training. Projects such as MindReading have explored overlaps between clinicians, humanities experts and experts by experience. We give an overview of some approaches from the movement around narrative in medicine to bolster this. We explore why clinicians write as ways to support identification, catharsis and a way to process experiences. Clinicians and patients may also use literature and poetry to promote coping. The historical context and practical strategies are highlighted, particularly with reference to poetry use during the current crisis.
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