The Transformative Storytelling Technique for Developing Guided Digital Narratives in Mental Health Support. Pilot study

In a society where advances and innovations occur on a daily basis, the development of digital mental health tools continues at almost uncontrollable rates. Following trends in the utilization of storytelling across fields and reflecting on the lack of working models and frameworks for the application of storytelling for mental health support, the Transformative Storytelling Technique (TST) is designed and developed as a part of this work. This technique represents a new category for creating hybrid content to guide the experience of audiences, starting with the case of informal caregivers. In this pilot study, a TST caregiver story is assessed pre-post in an interventional study, investigating the potential role of mental health audio stories in supporting informal caregiver wellbeing. The anonymized raw dataset is available.