Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
BMJ Ment Health. 2024 Nov 8;27(1):e301150. doi: 10.1136/bmjment-2024-301150.
Advancing adolescent health research necessitates deliberate design and analysis that accurately captures the rapidly evolving world in which adolescents live and the ways in which they understand and express themselves and their experiences. In this , we reflect on how researchers might approach existing, imperfect data in a way that is accurate and inclusive of trans and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents. Drawing on our experience of running a large school-based survey of health and well-being (the OxWell Student Survey) and extensive coproduction with three TGD adolescents ('youth advisors'), we present considerations for critically appraising, processing and analysing quantitative gender data to better reflect adolescents' lived experiences. Specific topics discussed include how to assess the strengths and limitations of existing gender data; how to generate meaningful research data from free-text gender descriptions (and the implications of not doing so); and how to analyse data from TGD adolescents, including for those who choose not to disclose their gender. We conclude with a set of 10 recommendations, coproduced with the three youth advisors, for those working with 'imperfect' gender data.
推进青少年健康研究需要精心设计和分析，以准确捕捉青少年生活的快速变化的世界，以及他们理解和表达自己和自己的经验的方式。在本文中，我们反思了研究人员如何以准确和包容跨性别和性别多样化（TGD）青少年的方式来处理现有的不完美数据。我们借鉴了我们运行一项大型基于学校的健康和幸福感调查（OxWell 学生调查）的经验，以及与三位 TGD 青少年（“青年顾问”）的广泛合作，提出了一些考虑因素，用于批判性地评估、处理和分析定量性别数据，以更好地反映青少年的真实生活体验。讨论的具体主题包括如何评估现有性别数据的优缺点；如何从自由文本性别描述中生成有意义的研究数据（以及不这样做的影响）；以及如何分析 TGD 青少年的数据，包括那些选择不披露其性别的青少年的数据。我们最后与三位青年顾问共同制定了 10 项建议，供那些处理“不完美”性别数据的人使用。
