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Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study
BACKGROUND: Conducting psychological research with adolescents is imperative for better understanding, prevention and treatment of mental illness. However there is concern that research addressing topics such as mental illness, substance use and suicidality has potential to distress participants, pa...
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2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4546253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26300966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-015-0074-3 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Conducting psychological research with adolescents is imperative for better understanding, prevention and treatment of mental illness. However there is concern that research addressing topics such as mental illness, substance use and suicidality has potential to distress participants, particularly youth. METHOD: We administered a questionnaire to 1973 adolescents (13–18 years) at two time points, one year apart. Participants responded to items regarding nonsuicidal self-injury, psychological distress, history of physical and/or sexual abuse, adverse life events, alcohol use, suicidal behaviour, self-efficacy, and coping skills as well as two open-ended questions regarding whether they enjoyed participating in the research and whether participation worried or upset them. RESULTS: Most youth (74 %) enjoyed participation and cited altruistic reasons and a greater self-awareness as reasons. Those reporting being upset by the questionnaire (15 %) reported poorer psychological functioning than their peers. Youth who were upset by their participation at baseline, but who reported enjoying the questionnaire at follow-up reported improved psychosocial functioning over time, while the reverse was true for those who initially enjoyed participation but later reported the questionnaire upset them. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest researchers acknowledge benefits for young people who participate in research, but also be mindful of the potential for distress among the most at risk youth. |
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spelling | pubmed-45462532015-08-23 Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study Hasking, Penelope Tatnell, Ruth C. Martin, Graham Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research BACKGROUND: Conducting psychological research with adolescents is imperative for better understanding, prevention and treatment of mental illness. However there is concern that research addressing topics such as mental illness, substance use and suicidality has potential to distress participants, particularly youth. METHOD: We administered a questionnaire to 1973 adolescents (13–18 years) at two time points, one year apart. Participants responded to items regarding nonsuicidal self-injury, psychological distress, history of physical and/or sexual abuse, adverse life events, alcohol use, suicidal behaviour, self-efficacy, and coping skills as well as two open-ended questions regarding whether they enjoyed participating in the research and whether participation worried or upset them. RESULTS: Most youth (74 %) enjoyed participation and cited altruistic reasons and a greater self-awareness as reasons. Those reporting being upset by the questionnaire (15 %) reported poorer psychological functioning than their peers. Youth who were upset by their participation at baseline, but who reported enjoying the questionnaire at follow-up reported improved psychosocial functioning over time, while the reverse was true for those who initially enjoyed participation but later reported the questionnaire upset them. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest researchers acknowledge benefits for young people who participate in research, but also be mindful of the potential for distress among the most at risk youth. BioMed Central 2015-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4546253/ /pubmed/26300966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-015-0074-3 Text en © Hasking et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Hasking, Penelope Tatnell, Ruth C. Martin, Graham Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study |
title | Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study |
title_full | Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study |
title_fullStr | Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study |
title_full_unstemmed | Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study |
title_short | Adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study |
title_sort | adolescents’ reactions to participating in ethically sensitive research: a prospective self-report study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4546253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26300966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-015-0074-3 |
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