Team Photovoice - Coventry
LOCAL ARTISTS
In 2019, Dr Clair Dempsey, from Coventry University led on a photovoice study part of her PhD, exploring the needs of people living with endometriosis.
Photovoice is a research method that uses images and captions to answer a research question. In this case: What are the psychological needs and coping strategies of people living with endometriosis and/or adenomyosis?
Facts about endometriosis:
As common as diabetes
Affects 1 in 10 people assigned female at birth
Can take on average 8 years to be diagnosed
One of the main causes of infertility in women
Symptoms: chronic pelvic pain, painful urination, painful bowel movements, painful sex, heavy periods and fatigue
Endometriosis is tissue similar to the lining of the womb, found in every organ in/on the body, including lungs, heart, liver, bowel, reproductive organs, kidney
For a period of five weeks, six women team Photovoice took five photographs each week and added captions to provide context and meaning to the images. There were 143 images and the total word count of the captions was just over 13,000.
ARTWORK - Living with Endo
Select images and captions from the Living with Endo photovoice study, related to the idea of having hope or expressing gratitude.
