An online intervention for vulnerable young adults: identifying mechanisms of change using a grounded theory approach
| Autor: | Kim Foster, Darryl Maybery, Jodie Matar, Rose Cuff, Laura Pettenuzzo, Catherine Bartholomew, Andrea Reupert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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young adults
Online chat Closed-ended question Health (social science) Adolescent Social Psychology Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology Psychological intervention Space (commercial competition) Grounded theory Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Intervention (counseling) Perception substance use problem medicine Humans online intervention 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Motivation parents Mental illness medicine.disease mental illness 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Grounded Theory Psychology Internet-Based Intervention |
| Zdroj: | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 57:293-303 |
| ISSN: | 1433-9285 0933-7954 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00127-021-02082-0 |
| Popis: | Purpose The purpose of this study is to qualitatively identify the mechanisms of change as young adults, whose parents have a mental illness and/or substance use issue, navigate their way through a 6-week, moderated online intervention. Methods Using a qualitative, grounded theory approach, data were collected and triangulated for analysis from participants before, during, and after engaging in the intervention. First, 31 young people’s motivations for enrolling in the intervention were identified from one open ended question on an online survey. Second, online chat sessions were analysed to identify those topics the 31 participants engaged in throughout the intervention. Finally, 19 interviews were conducted 2 weeks post-intervention, to ascertain participants’ perceptions of the impacts of the intervention and how the intervention promoted changes. Results The main storyline was that of participants “making sense” of their parents, themselves and other relationships, in collaboration with peers, in a safe online space. This storyline of “making sense” drove their motivation to join the intervention and was the focus of the online chats. After the intervention, some were closer to having “made sense” of their families while others struggled differentiating themselves away from their families. An anonymous, professionally moderated online site afforded participants opportunities to think about who they were and for some, who they wanted to be. Conclusion Generating an explanatory theory of how vulnerable young people navigate their way through an online intervention provides important information that can be used to inform future services, interventions, and research. |
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