User-generated quality standards for youth mental health in primary care: a participatory research design using mixed methods.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop user-generated quality standards for young people with mental health problems in primary care using a participatory research model.

Methods

50 young people aged 16-25 from community settings and primary care participated in focus groups and interviews about their views and experiences of seeking help for mental health problems in primary care, cofacilitated by young service users and repeated to ensure respondent validation. A second group of young people also aged 16-25 who had sought help for any mental health problem from primary care or secondary care within the last 5 years were trained as focus groups cofacilitators (n=12) developed the quality standards from the qualitative data and participated in four nominal groups (n=28).

Results

46 qu

SUBMITTER: Graham T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4173988 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature