Daasachchuchik: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Developing a Chronic Illness Self-Management Program for the Apsaalooke People.

ABSTRACT: In Montana, American Indians with chronic illnesses (CIs) die 20 years earlier than their White counterparts highlighting an urgent need to develop culturally consonant CI self-management programs. Historical and current trauma places Indigenous peoples at increased health risk relative to others, and negatively influences CI self-management. The Apsáalooke Nation and Montana State University worked together to develop and implement a trauma-informed CI self-management program to improve the Apsáalooke community's health. This paper describes the origins and development of the trauma-informed components of the program. Using community stories and a literature review of trauma-informed interventions, partners co-developed culturally consonant trauma materials and activities grounded in comm

SUBMITTER: Schure M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7791093 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature