Abstract
AbstractBackgroundThe Empowering Dementia Carers in an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e‐DIVA) project aims to develop a website based on the World Health Organisation’s iSupport to support carers in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), Australia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The website will be supplemented with culturally‐appropriate videos showing different scenarios in caring. As NZ had limited funding for the adaptation process, we decided to utilise the videos already developed by the Australian team and modify them to be locally‐relevant to NZ culture. There are some similarities in the culture and ethnic populations of the two countries, but also considerable differences. Here we aim to understand the need of cultural adaptation and describe the process of developing locally‐relevant videos for self‐paced dementia training to support carers in NZ.MethodWe worked with carers and social and health care practitioners to adapt the iSupport manual for use in NZ. We conducted separate focus groups with carers and care practitioners to agree on adapted videos for use in different modules in iSupport website. We reviewed the scripts and visuals and discussed how to ensure the content (scenario, dialogue) and delivery (music, visuals) were acceptable and relatable for NZ carers from different backgrounds.To adapt for Māori carers, we took the manual and videos that had been adapted for non‐Māori, and conducted focus groups with Māori carers and care practitioners to produce content that was culturally‐appropriate and Māori‐friendly.ResultUsing co‐design and consultation with carers and care professionals from specific cultures, we made changes to the backgrounds and visual representation of the characters to better reflect NZ culture, and ensuring inclusion and representation of Māori and Pasifika in the videos. We will present the adapted videos in AAIC 2023 next to the poster.ConclusionAdapting existing videos can be a low‐cost approach to provide supporting media for an online training tool such as iSupport.
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