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azza-warraitch.bsky.social
@azza-warraitch.bsky.social
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PhD student | Global health | Adolescent Mental Health | Youth involvement in research using participatory approaches. 🇮🇪🇵🇰
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lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ)

In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Estimating adolescent mental health in the general population: current challenges and opportunities Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes. Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality measurement in this field.
December 5, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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louca-mai.bsky.social
"How to address the barriers to meaningful adolescent involvement in #HealthResearch: A #qualitative study"
Great article by @azza-warraitch.bsky.social and colleagues, incl young people:
doi.org/10.1111/jora...
#PublicInvolvement #PPI #InvolveYoungPeople
How to address the barriers to meaningful adolescent involvement in health research: A qualitative study
The under-involvement of adolescents in health research has been attributed to multiple barriers faced by both researchers and adolescents. Despite identifying these barriers, the literature offers f....
doi.org
October 22, 2024 at 7:39 AM