Drawing cancer chronicles: A qualitative study to evaluate narrative meaning-making over time and in response to a meaning-centred care intervention.

ABSTRACT: The diagnosis of incurable cancer can disrupt life stories, undermining meaning-making and challenging self-identity. People may therefore need to search for and create new stories about their lives that incorporate their diagnosis. Arts-based narrative interventions are being explored to support this existential process of narrative meaning-making. However, developing effective existential support may be limited by the lack of methods capable of investigating their impact. This study is the first to explore narrative meaning-making across time and a meaning-centred care intervention by longitudinally using 'Rich Pictures' (RPs) - hand-drawn visual narratives. We analysed repeated RPs about living with incurable cancer from thirty-eight participants in two studies: one incorporating an art

SUBMITTER: Evans ERE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12818685 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature