An umbrella review of reviews on challenges to meaningful adolescent involvement in health research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Less than 1% of studies on child and adolescent health report the involvement of adolescents in health research. This is attributed to barriers experienced by researchers and adolescents in the engagement process. To address this under-involvement of adolescents, we first need a better understanding of the factors that hinder adolescent involvement in health research.

Objective

We conducted an umbrella review of reviews to consolidate the review-level evidence on the barriers to meaningful involvement of adolescents in health research.

Methods

We preregistered this umbrella review of reviews with PROSPERO (CRD42021287467). We searched 11 databases; Google Scholar; and PROSPERO; supplemented by a hand search of the reference lists of eligible reviews, releva

SUBMITTER: Warraitch A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10821743 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature