Division of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Pediatrics. 2022 May 1;149(Suppl 5). doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-053509H.
We provide an overview of diverse forms of youth participation, with a focus on youth participatory action research (YPAR) and its synergies with life course intervention research to promote healthier development for young people and across the life span. We analyze why YPAR matters for research, practice, and policies related to the systems and settings in which young people develop. We also illustrate how young people perform YPAR work to improve the developmental responsiveness and equity of school and health systems, including descriptions of an innovative youth-led health center in Rwanda and a long-standing and evolving integration of YPAR into public high schools in the United States. We then briefly consider the adult capacities needed to do this work well, given that YPAR challenges typical youth-adult power relationships and broader assumptions about who can generate expert knowledge. We consider the alignment and potential challenges for integration of life course intervention research as well as YPAR and next steps for research and practice at this intersection.
我们提供了对各种形式的青年参与的概述，重点介绍了青年参与式行动研究（YPAR）及其与生命历程干预研究的协同作用，以促进年轻人和整个生命周期的更健康发展。我们分析了为什么 YPAR 对与年轻人发展相关的系统和环境中的研究、实践和政策很重要。我们还说明了年轻人如何通过 YPAR 工作来提高学校和卫生系统的发展响应能力和公平性，包括描述卢旺达一个创新的青年主导的健康中心和美国公立高中长期存在且不断发展的 YPAR 整合。然后，鉴于 YPAR 挑战了典型的青年与成人之间的权力关系以及关于谁可以产生专业知识的更广泛假设，我们简要考虑了做好这项工作所需的成人能力。我们考虑了生命历程干预研究以及 YPAR 的一致性和潜在整合挑战，以及这一交叉点的研究和实践的下一步。
