Assessing alcohol and other drug prevention needs among Indigenous youth ages 13–17: Developing a culturally grounded Indigenous youth harm reduction intervention

Establishing Core Content for Culturally Grounded Harm Reduction Intervention for Urban Indigenous After-School Youth in the Pacific Northwest

“…A thematic analysis was used to highlight risk factors described in the data by identifying important segments of text, coding them, and grouping similarly coded text into categories with operational definitions, all while ensuring risk factors were mutually exclusive and grounded in the dataset (Nowell et al, 2017;Lincoln & Guba, 1985;Maxwell, 2013). Intergroup reliability was assessed among coders via in-person debriefing sessions, and any discrepancies between the two Indigenous-identified coders and/or categories were resolved by a third Indigenous-identified coder (Ignacio et al, 2022).…”

“…In doing so, publications would help to increase the representation of Indigenous youth voices in the academic scientific literature. Additionally, results may be highly relevant to other groups aiming to reduce AOD use among urban Indigenous youth (Ignacio et al, 2022).…”

“…We previously described (Ignacio et al, 2022) findings from interviews held with 10 Indigenous youth that resulted in four key themes. Each theme was categorized according to one of the four constructs of Indigenous relationality as described by Wilson (2008), which include people, ideas, place, and the cosmos.…”

“…Youth also provided salient content suggestions that were categorized according to the four constructs. As a result, Indigenous youth participants reported: (a) having a deep understanding of the harms associated with using AODs (people), (b) having an appreciation for non-abstinence-based AOD education (ideas), (c) needing safe spaces to talk about the impacts of AOD use on self, family, and community (place), and (d) having a strong desire to lead and help prevent AOD harms for others and themselves (cosmos; Ignacio et al, 2022). Because youth themes aligned near-perfectly with Indigenous relationality constructs, the resulting four themes and constructs will serve as the theoretical foundation to guide the inclusion of culturally relevant prevention activities (Ignacio et al, 2022).…”