Section of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Section of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
J Adolesc Health. 2020 Jun;66(6):747-749. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.11.316. Epub 2020 Jan 25.
Our aim was to bridge access to voter registration for youth by offering this service within a primary care setting and study the impact of this intervention on voter engagement and the barriers to voter turnout for registered youth voters.
A total of 120 eligible youth were presented with the opportunity to register to vote within their scheduled medical appointments. Participants were administered a follow-up survey via telephone or within scheduled visits after the 2018 midterm election.
Eighteen of 41 participants (43.9%) who registered to vote in this clinic voted in the midterm elections, and 52 of 95 eligible participants (54.7%) voted overall. Those who did not vote cited multiple issues associated with social determinants of health, including economic stability and neighborhood and social environments, as top barriers.
This study demonstrates that facilitating access to voter registration in an adolescent primary care setting is a feasible intervention and may improve voter engagement in youth.
我们旨在通过在初级保健环境中提供选民登记服务来弥合青年选民登记的途径，并研究这一干预措施对选民参与度以及已登记青年选民投票率的障碍的影响。
共有 120 名符合条件的青年在预约的医疗就诊期间有机会登记投票。在 2018 年中期选举之后，参与者通过电话或在预约就诊时接受了后续调查。
在该诊所登记投票的 41 名参与者中有 18 人（43.9%）在中期选举中投票，而 95 名符合条件的参与者中有 52 人（54.7%）总体上投票。未投票的人提到了与健康的社会决定因素相关的多个问题，包括经济稳定以及邻里和社会环境，这些是最大的障碍。
这项研究表明，在青少年初级保健环境中促进选民登记的获取是一项可行的干预措施，并且可以提高青年的选民参与度。
