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December 11, 2025Frontiers in Health ServicesOpen Access

What's it gonna take? Lessons learned for youth-friendly mental health services research

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CCChiachen ChengHSHafsa SiddiquiAJA. Jacques

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Overview

Focus groups with youth revealing feedback on mental illness and substance use indicate the need for service improvement strategies.

Key Points

  • To explore youth-friendly methods for research and service improvement in mental health and substance use.
  • Used innovative and participatory action mixed methods.
  • Conducted focus groups with youth aged 12-25 who accessed mental health and addiction services.
  • Analyzed data using thematic analysis and created an animated video to summarize findings.
  • 44 youth completed the screening for service needs stratification.
  • 14 youth participated in pilot focus groups, while 24 engaged in additional focus groups.
  • Main themes included youth's desire for participation in research and the importance of choice throughout the process.

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Cheng et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6940192a2d562116f28f6cf6https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2025.1623179
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