Developing a novel co‐produced methodology to understand ‘real‐world’ help‐seeking in online peer–peer communities by young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect

Bennett, Vanessa; Gill, Chloe; Miller, Pamela; Lewis, Peter; YPAG, NeurOX; Hamilton‐Giachritsis, Catherine; Lavi, Iris

doi:10.1111/hex.13621

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“…This small study exploring naturalistic data, researched with YCoR, offered a unique situated phenomenological approach to understand CYPs contexts of emotional abuse and neglect, how it is broached by CYP in an anonymous non face‐to‐face help‐seeking setting, and the support they receive from their peers (Bennett, Gill, Miller, Lewis, et al, 2022). We believe this is the first study to perform such research.…”

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‘From their own words’: A co‐produced study interpreting children and young people's experiences of emotional abuse and neglect expressed in anonymous, online peer‐peer message forums

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This naturalistic study researched online help‐seeking conversations between children and young people (CYP) experiencing emotional abuse and/or neglect and their peers. We believe this is the first study internationally to perform such research. Engagement with anonymous, online communities potentially offer children a source of knowledge and a platform to express and understand their experiences with peers on their own terms, using their own words. This study, co‐produced with 10 young co‐researchers (YCoR) (aged 14–18 years), aimed to explore the experiences, psychological characteristics and interactions of CYP engaging with an online peer‐peer message board service to explore theoretical and methodological approaches to examine such ‘real world’ data and inform service evaluation. Incorporating contextualised interpretations by the YCoR, a phenomenological approach explored how the experiences of abuse were constructed and questioned by CYP in online texts, and what motivates help‐seeking. Findings detail the context of CYPs emotionally abusive or neglectful experiences, their language, disclosed mental health challenges, explicit and inferred help‐seeking motivations. The co‐produced methodology facilitated a nuanced interpretation of CYPs' experiences to convey the impacts of emotional abuse and neglect disclosed in this anonymous environment. Validation with YCoR with diverse experiences would facilitate further translation of findings.

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“…When people gain support from others who are going through similar experiences, they feel more at ease and inspired to seek professional treatment to address their mental health issues. Bennett et al (2022) shown that peer support for victims of violence had a favorable effect on help-seeking behavior. Peer support is vital in enabling individuals to seek knowledge, understanding, and acceptance when they are victims of violence.…”

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The Influence of Mental health Literacy and Peer Support Towards Help-Seeking Behavior on Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Nurazizah,

Zulkaida

2024

IJRP

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Help-seeking behavior in women who have been victims of intimate partner violence can be influenced by mental health literacy and peer support. The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the effect of mental health literacy and peer support on help-seeking behavior in early adult women who have been victims of intimate partner violence and have a tendency to depression. This study was conducted on female respondents who had been victims of intimate partner violence.Respondents in this study were obtained by snowball sampling technique. The measuring instruments used are Attitudes toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help: Shortened Form, Mental Health Literacy, and Social Provisions Scale. The analysis used in this study used multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that mental health literacy and peer support have a significant influence on help-seeking behavior. Mental health literacy had a greater influence on help-seeking behaviour than peer support. This can be influenced by other factors outside the study such as stigma and family support.

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Anything goes for participant, patient and public involvement in youth mental health research

Bakermans‐Kranenburg,

van IJzendoorn

2024

JCPP Advances

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BackgroundParticipant and Public Involvement in youth mental health research aims at making research more responsive to the needs of youth struggling with mental health issues, their parents, and mental health professionals and other stakeholders. Do characteristics of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in youth mental health research align with transparency and replication prerequisites as necessary conditions for translation? Relatedly, the question is addressed whether co‐authorship should be assigned to youth involved in the study.MethodsHere we address these questions re‐visiting 50 PPI studies included in two recent systematic reviews of PPI on characteristics that are pertinent to questions about transparency, replicability, translatability, and co‐authorship in PPI research.ResultsAlmost two‐third of the studies on youth mental health incorporating PPI translate their results to policy or practice, mostly as recommendations but sometimes also by dissemination of (online) interventions. At the same time the authors of a substantial majority of the studies (70%) also suggest the need for further work on their results, for example, in randomized controlled trials to validate the outcome of their exploratory inquiry. Only a quarter of the studies using PPI met the conditions for replicability, thus a majority of the PPI studies suggest premature translation of results. Authorship to involved participants was assigned in 24% of the studies.Conclusions“Anything goes” for PPI in an exploratory stage to generate fruitful hypotheses. Translation of the findings of PPI studies however require a firm evidence base of replicated results. Radical merging of research and action in participatory action research seems incompatible with replicable and therefore translatable inquiry. Assigning co‐authorship to PPI representatives is often at odds with current guidelines for authorship. More evidence from randomized trials on the translational impact of PPI is needed before grant foundations should require PPI in grant proposals.

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Developing a novel co‐produced methodology to understand ‘real‐world’ help‐seeking in online peer–peer communities by young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect

Cited by 6 publications

References 60 publications

‘From their own words’: A co‐produced study interpreting children and young people's experiences of emotional abuse and neglect expressed in anonymous, online peer‐peer message forums

‘From their own words’: A co‐produced study interpreting children and young people's experiences of emotional abuse and neglect expressed in anonymous, online peer‐peer message forums

The Influence of Mental health Literacy and Peer Support Towards Help-Seeking Behavior on Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Anything goes for participant, patient and public involvement in youth mental health research

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