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This chapter discusses a digital storytelling project that combined aims to gain fine-grained understanding of, and address, sexual health inequities among Puerto Rican Latinas in the project community. The authors begin by introducing digital storytelling as a culture-centered approach for use in public health research and intervention. They then trace two emerging ethical issues in research using digital storytelling, both related to key project findings of current and historical trauma among participants: (1) conflicting aims in the project and (2) the ethical standard to minimize harm. The authors conclude that these issues can be resolved if projects are guided by a sensitive ethical protocol, and that digital storytelling and other participatory, visual, and arts-based methods can be harnessed for the design of effective sexual health interventions.
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Gubrium, A., Fiddian-Green, A., Hill, A. (2016). Conflicting Aims and Minimizing Harm: Uncovering Experiences of Trauma in Digital Storytelling with Young Women. In: Warr, D., Guillemin, M., Cox, S., Waycott, J. (eds) Ethics and Visual Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54305-9_12
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