Health Economics Bristol, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1NU, UK.
Health Economics Unit, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Qual Life Res. 2024 Apr;33(4):1051-1061. doi: 10.1007/s11136-023-03585-w. Epub 2024 Jan 31.
This study explores how important well-becoming factors appear to be to children during childhood. We define well-becoming as the indicators which predict children and young people's future wellbeing and opportunities. The priority for this work was to explore whether well-becoming might be an important factor to include in outcome measures for children and young people. The inclusion of well-becoming indicators could ensure that opportunities to invest in promoting wellbeing in children's futures are not missed.
In-depth, qualitative interviews (N = 70) were undertaken with children and young people aged 6-15 years and their parents. Analysis used constant comparison and framework methods to investigate whether well-becoming factors were considered important by informants to children and young people's current wellbeing.
The findings of the interviews suggested that children and young people and their parents are concerned with future well-becoming now, as factors such as future achievement, financial security, health, independence, identity, and relationships were identified as key to future quality of life. Informants suggested that they considered it important during childhood to aspire towards positive outcomes in children and young people's futures.
The study findings, taken alongside relevant literature, have generated evidence to support the notion that future well-becoming is important to current wellbeing. We have drawn on our own work in capability wellbeing measure development to demonstrate how we have incorporated a well-becoming attribute into our measures. The inclusion of well-becoming indicators in measures could aid investment in interventions which more directly improve well-becoming outcomes for children and young people.
本研究探讨在儿童时期，良好成长因素对儿童的重要性。我们将良好成长定义为预测儿童和青少年未来幸福和机会的指标。这项工作的重点是探讨良好成长是否可能成为儿童和青少年成果衡量标准中一个重要的因素。纳入良好成长指标可以确保不忽视为儿童未来促进幸福感而投资的机会。
对 6-15 岁的儿童和青少年及其父母进行了深入的定性访谈（N=70）。分析采用了恒定比较和框架方法，以调查信息提供者是否认为良好成长因素对儿童和青少年的当前幸福感很重要。
访谈结果表明，儿童和青少年及其父母现在就关注未来的良好成长，因为未来的成就、经济安全、健康、独立、身份和人际关系等因素被认为是未来生活质量的关键。信息提供者表示，他们认为在儿童时期，让孩子对未来有积极的期望很重要。
研究结果与相关文献一起，为未来良好成长对当前幸福感很重要的观点提供了证据。我们借鉴了自己在能力幸福感衡量标准发展方面的工作，展示了我们如何将良好成长属性纳入我们的衡量标准中。在衡量标准中纳入良好成长指标可以促进对干预措施的投资，这些干预措施可以更直接地改善儿童和青少年的良好成长结果。
