| Summary: | Objective: Exploring how an ethnic culture-focused collective narrative
strategy can be effectively used to promote resilience among the affected
Qiang children for post-disaster psychological trauma at scale. Design: The
study was conducted with a cohort of ethnic Qiang children through a pretest (n=1100) and post-three years test (n=957) to evaluate the effect of the
intervention program from myth story-based collective narrative cultural
practices. Results: Data from the study clearly indicate that children’s
resilience behaviour had been greatly improved by the myth story-based
collective narrative activities with average scores on 11 items showing a
significant increase from 2.08 at baseline to 4.12 at 3 years follow-up posttest (mean=2.04, 95% CI=0.97, 3.11, p <0.0001). No similar change occurred
in the control groups (mean=0.74, 95% CI=-0.75, 2.23, n.s). Conclusion: The
adoption of an ethnic culture-focused collectivism narrative approach for
reduction of vulnerability was able to greatly promote the cultural variable
to enhance coping for Qiang children affected by trauma at scale, which
informed the urgency for developing an indigenous psych-cultural agenda for
collectively responding to disaster trauma in ethnic minority contexts.
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