TY - JOUR
T1 - Using ethnographic film in tackling podoconiosis.
AU - Cremers, A.L.
AU - Visser, B.J.
AU - Getahun, Z.
AU - Borku, M.
AU - Meskele, E.
AU - Ahmed, J.
AU - van Vugt, M.
AU - Birnie, E.
N1 - Funding Information: Funded by the Amsterdam University Medical Centres Academic Medical Centre, and the Dutch Albert Schweitzer Foundation. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has one of the worst podoconiosis rates in the world, affecting >1.5 million patients. We present our ethnographic film 'Tigist, the story of a girl with podoconiosis' and its potential use in tackling podoconiosis. METHODS: We conducted visual ethnography, consisting of video-recorded participant observations and interviews with seven patients, three healthcare workers and two podoconiosis experts. RESULTS: We acquired video recordings of social moments, the state of podoconiosis patients' bodies and minds, their emotions and the impact of poverty. CONCLUSIONS: Our film allows for an intensified understanding of patients' daily experiences with podoconiosis, potentially impacting care, awareness and medical teaching programs.
AB - BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has one of the worst podoconiosis rates in the world, affecting >1.5 million patients. We present our ethnographic film 'Tigist, the story of a girl with podoconiosis' and its potential use in tackling podoconiosis. METHODS: We conducted visual ethnography, consisting of video-recorded participant observations and interviews with seven patients, three healthcare workers and two podoconiosis experts. RESULTS: We acquired video recordings of social moments, the state of podoconiosis patients' bodies and minds, their emotions and the impact of poverty. CONCLUSIONS: Our film allows for an intensified understanding of patients' daily experiences with podoconiosis, potentially impacting care, awareness and medical teaching programs.
KW - Ethnographic film
KW - Patient experience
KW - Podoconiosis
KW - Stigma
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traa098
DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traa098
M3 - Article
C2 - 33211884
SN - 0035-9203
VL - 114
SP - 896
EP - 898
JO - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
IS - 12
ER -