Research behind StoryHelper

Papers, posters and talks about StoryHelper and evidence-based digital storytelling for health promotion.

1. 2026

   Designing Effective Digital Storytelling Interventions for Health Promotion: A Digital Story Quality Framework (STORY-Q) and the StoryHelper Platform

   Craciun, I. C., Lederer, G., Seidel, S., Elgayar, M.

   Zenodo · Working paper

   Introduces STORY-Q, a quality framework for digital storytelling health interventions across four domains (tailoring to target populations, theory-based content, engagement-centred design and ethical integrity), and StoryHelper, which turns these domains into a practical development workflow.

   Read the paper → DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19024757
2. 2025

   The StoryHelper: A Practical Guide to Designing Digital Stories as Health Promotion Interventions

   Crăciun, I. C. (lead author), Adotey, S. K. (contributing author)

   Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) · Manual

   A step-by-step guide to planning, writing, testing and evaluating digital stories for health promotion with StoryHelper, including tools, ethics and consent, and a checklist before dissemination.

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