a Melbourne School of Population and Global Health , The University of Melbourne , Parkville , Victoria , Australia.
b Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health , Parkville , Victoria , Australia.
J Ment Health. 2019 Feb;28(1):56-63. doi: 10.1080/09638237.2018.1521926. Epub 2018 Oct 24.
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.
To explore the experiences, barriers and enablers to partnering with young people for mental health research.
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.
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.
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.
让年轻人参与到精神健康研究的共同设计和实施中至关重要，这样可以确保研究能够满足年轻人的需求。尽管如此，年轻人要想真正参与到精神健康研究中仍然面临许多障碍。
探索与年轻人合作开展精神健康研究的经验、障碍和促进因素。
对澳大利亚一家青年精神健康研究所的 19 名研究人员进行了半结构化的定性访谈。使用主题分析方法对这些数据进行了分析。
研究人员对青年参与的概念化方式与他们与年轻人互动的信心和能力有关。对青年参与对研究质量的影响的态度和信念与情感因素有关，例如焦虑或兴奋的感觉。研究人员是否参与青年参与受到资源、文化和他们所在组织的结构的影响。
研究人员通常希望让年轻人参与他们的工作，但有几个因素会阻碍这一点。通过了解研究人员面临的挑战，并借鉴那些已经与年轻人合作的人的鼓励和支持因素，可以制定一个支持精神健康研究中真正有意义的青年参与的框架。
