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Journal article
In their own words: an exploration of primary children's participation in a dementia education program
Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Vol.39(1), pp.251-259
2024
PMID: 37323033
Abstract
Issue Addressed
As the population ages the prevalence of dementia increases and children are increasingly experiencing family members and older friends living with dementia. Unfortunately, stigma about living with dementia is common. Increasing understanding about dementia among children has the potential to reduce this stigma. This paper reports on the qualitative findings of Project DARE (dementia knowledge, art, research and education), a school-based, multi-modal, arts program designed to increase understanding about dementia among children aged 8–10 years.
Methods
A constructivist grounded theory approach was used to understand students' experience of the intervention. Thematic analysis was used to identify key themes emerging from interviews with randomly selected students (n = 40) who had taken part in the program.
Results
The data analysis generated three themes related to students' awareness of dementia and experiences of the program: (1) nurturing empathy, (2) memory loss is complex, (3) learning about dementia through the arts to promote resilience. These themes show that the intervention increased students' awareness of dementia, and empathy towards people who are both directly and indirectly affected by dementia.
Conclusions
Although dementia education can be viewed as too sensitive for primary aged students, the current study demonstrates that such initiatives are feasible and can be effectively implemented with this age group.
So What?
Changing student's beliefs about dementia can positively impact their relationships with people living with dementia.
Details
- Title
- In their own words: an exploration of primary children's participation in a dementia education program
- Authors
- Nataszia Pawlicka - University of WollongongMichelle J Eady (Corresponding Author) - University of WollongongCorinne A Green - University of WollongongPenny Harris - University of WollongongVictoria Traynor - University of WollongongCarinya Barkley - Coledale Public School (Australia)Jennine Primmer - Wollongong City Council (Australia)Jess R Baker - UNSW SydneyPippa Burns - University of Wollongong
- Publication details
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Vol.39(1), pp.251-259
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1002/hpja.739
- ISSN
- 2201-1617; 1036-1073
- PMID
- 37323033
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Authors. Health Promotion Journal of Australia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Health Promotion Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
- Grant note
- The original Project DARE intervention was funded by a UOW Global Challenges seed grant. Subsequent work has been funded by a UOW Health Impacts Research Centre grant.
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991130085602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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