Barriers and enablers to meaningful youth participation in mental health research: qualitative interviews with youth mental health researchers
Barriers and enablers to meaningful youth participation in mental health research: qualitative interviews with youth mental health researchers
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DOI：
10.1080/09638237.2018.1521926
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发表时间：
2019-01-02
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Simmons, Magenta B.
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作者：
Faithfull, Sarah;Brophy, Lisa;Simmons, Magenta B.
背景：让青年参与共同设计和开展青年心理健康研究对于确保研究具有相关性并满足青年的需要是至关重要的。尽管如此，有意义的参与仍然存在许多障碍。目的：探索与年轻人合作进行心理健康研究的经验、障碍和推动因素。方法：对受雇于澳大利亚一家青年心理健康研究所的19名研究人员进行了半结构化的定性访谈。采用专题分析的方法对这些数据进行分析。结果：研究人员对青年参与的概念化程度与他们与年轻人打交道时的自信和能力有关。关于青年参与对研究质量影响的态度和信念与情绪因素有关，如焦虑或兴奋的感觉。从事青年参与的研究人员是否受到资源、文化和组织结构的影响。结论：研究人员通常希望让年轻人参与到他们的工作中来，但有几个因素可能会阻碍这一点。通过了解研究人员面临的挑战，并利用鼓励和支持那些已经与年轻人接触的人的因素，可以制定一个框架，支持青年真正和有意义地参与心理健康研究。
Background: Involving young people in co-designing and conducting youth mental health research is essential to ensure research is relevant and responsive to the needs of young people. Despite this, many barriers exist to meaningful involvement. Aims: To explore the experiences, barriers and enablers to partnering with young people for mental health research. Methods: Semi-structured, qualitative interviews were conducted with 19 researchers employed at a youth mental health research institute in Australia. Thematic analysis was used to analyse these data. Results: How researchers conceptualise youth participation was related to how confident and competent they felt engaging with young people. Attitudes and beliefs about the impact of youth participation on research quality were related to emotional factors, such as feelings of anxiety or excitement. Whether researchers engaged in youth participation was affected by resources, culture and the structures that their organisation had in place. Conclusion: Researchers generally want to engage young people in their work, but several factors can hinder this. By understanding the challenges facing researchers, and drawing on the factors that encourage and support those already engaging with young people, a framework to support genuine and meaningful youth participation in mental health research can be developed.