Hawke Lisa D, Hayes Em, Iyer Srividya, Killackey Eóin, Chinnery Gina, Gariépy Geneviève, Thabane Lehana, Darnay Karleigh, Alagaratnam Akosua, Tucker-Kilfoil Stephanie, Moxness Katherine, Hachimi-Idrissi Najia, Winkelmann Ina, Henderson Joanna
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Early Interv Psychiatry. 2021 Aug;15(4):942-948. doi: 10.1111/eip.13039. Epub 2020 Sep 18.
The issue of youth who are not engaged in education, employment or training has been a focus of policymakers for decades. Although interventions exist for these youth, they often measure success in ways that fail to capture what youth seek to gain. The project aims to address this gap by assessing youth-oriented outcomes for interventions targeting upcoming youth. Acknowledging the stigma attached to the deficit-based notion of not engaged in education, employment or training, hereafter we refer to 'upcoming youth', a term coined by youth partners on the project. This study asks what youth want to achieve by participating in an intervention for upcoming youth, with a view to guiding service and research design.
A mixed-methods discrete choice experiment will be conducted with youth engaged as partners. A qualitative (focus group) stage will be conducted to design discrete-choice experiment attributes and levels. The experiment will be piloted and administered online to approx. 500 youth (aged 14-29) across Canada to identify the outcomes that youth prioritize for interventions. Latent class analyses will then be conducted to explore clusters of outcomes that different groups of youth prioritize.
From a strengths-based recovery-oriented framework, hearing the voices of the target population is important in designing and evaluating services. This youth-oriented research project will identify the intervention outcomes that are the highest priority for upcoming youth. Findings will inform the development, implementation and testing of interventions targeting relevant outcomes for youth who are not engaged in education, employment or training.
几十年来，未接受教育、就业或培训的青年问题一直是政策制定者关注的焦点。尽管针对这些青年有一些干预措施，但它们衡量成功的方式往往未能抓住青年想要获得的东西。该项目旨在通过评估针对即将成年青年的干预措施以青年为导向的成果来填补这一空白。认识到与未接受教育、就业或培训这种基于缺陷的观念相关的污名，在此我们使用“即将成年青年”这一术语，它是该项目中青年伙伴创造的。本研究询问青年通过参与针对即将成年青年的干预措施想要实现什么，以期指导服务和研究设计。
将与作为伙伴参与的青年进行一项混合方法的离散选择实验。将进行一个定性（焦点小组）阶段，以设计离散选择实验的属性和水平。该实验将在网上进行试点并施测于加拿大各地约500名青年（年龄在14 - 29岁之间），以确定青年在干预措施中优先考虑的成果。然后将进行潜在类别分析，以探索不同青年群体优先考虑的成果集群。
从基于优势的以康复为导向的框架来看，在设计和评估服务时听取目标人群的声音很重要。这个以青年为导向的研究项目将确定即将成年青年最优先考虑的干预成果。研究结果将为针对未接受教育、就业或培训的青年的相关成果的干预措施的开发、实施和测试提供信息。
