Close reading and creative writing during the DECIDE project (2020-2025) at SDU/OUH
The DECIDE project aims to help a group of patients who have been overlooked and stigmatized: The liver patients. DECIDE is an interdisciplinary project where the researchers consist of liver specialists, basic researchers, literary scholars, anthropologists, NGOs, and patient associations. The ambition is to destigmatize fatty liver disease and reduce illness and death due to the disease.
Close reading and creative writing will be held for three target groups in the period 2021-2022. The first two are people with a risk factor for developing liver disease:
- people with an overuse of alcohol
- people with diabetes and obesity
- people with liver disease
The reading and writing workshops are facilitated by a literary scholar, recorded on video, and assessed through an individual interview and questionnaire. Literary texts by H.C. Andersen, Karen Blixen, Peter Seeberg, Pia Juul, and others will be read, and creative texts written by the participants on site read aloud in the group. Afterwards, selected texts are read aloud in a sound studio by the participants themselves and added graphic drawing and animation by a professional artist.
Research results are published continually, and the material is collected on a website for doctors and other health professionals.