Group-based storytelling in disease self-management among people with diabetes.

Objective: We explored the underlying mechanisms by which storytelling can promote disease self-management among people with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: Two, eight-session storytelling interventions were delivered to a total of eight adults with type 2 diabetes at a community health center in Toronto, Ontario. Each week, participants shared stories about diabetes self-management topics of their choice.

Storytelling to Support Disease Self-Management by Adults With Type 2 Diabetes.

Objectives: This pilot project aimed to examine the acceptability and feasibility of a group storytelling intervention to support self-management among adults living with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: Two waves of a single-arm storytelling intervention, consisting of 8 sessions at a community health centre, were delivered to 8 adults with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes educators facilitated each session, in which patients shared stories about diabetes-self-management topics of their choice.

Designing and delivering facilitated storytelling interventions for chronic disease self-management: a scoping review.

Background: Little is known about how to develop and deliver storytelling as an intervention to support those managing chronic illnesses. This scoping review aims to describe the core elements of storytelling interventions in order to help facilitate its implementation.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted in seven databases for articles published up to May 2014 to identify interventions that describe in detail how storytelling was used to support people in disease self-management interventions.

Efficacy of emergency department-based interventions designed to reduce repeat visits and other adverse outcomes for older patients after discharge: A systematic review.

Aim: There is an urgent need for effective geriatric interventions to meet the health service demands of the growing older population. In this paper, we systematically review and update existing literature on interventions within emergency departments (ED) targeted towards reducing ED re-visits, hospitalizations, nursing home admissions and deaths in older patients after initial ED discharge.

Methods: Databases Medline, CINAHL, Embase and Web of Science were searched to identify all articles published up to June 2012 that focused on older adults in the ED, included a comparison group, and reported quantitative results in four primary outcomes: ED re-visits, hospitalizations, nursing home admissions and death after initial ED discharge.