Technological Innovations in Participatory Health Research with Adolescents

An evidence-based book critically exploring the use of technology with adolescents to explore health related topics in research.

Leonor Rodriguez-Estrada (Author)

9781009450461, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 February 2025

240 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.504 kg

This book offers a critical overview of participatory methods in health research with adolescents and youth. It introduces participatory methodology as an ethos and practice, before covering specific paradigms and methods, including participatory action research, community-based participatory research, co-design, co-creation, participatory design, peer research, youth as researchers, integrated knowledge translation, and youth-adult partnerships. Specific technologies are also covered, such as mobile apps and video games, sonification, photovoice, visual mapping, and Internet-based approaches. A guidebook to both theory and methods, it demonstrates technology's potential to drive impactful research and inclusive study design.

Introduction
1. Health research with adolescents
2. Methodological considerations in participatory research with adolescents
3. Safety and ethics in technological participatory health research with adolescents
4. Mobile apps and video games
5. Sonification
6. Photovoice and visual methods
7. Videos and animations
8. Visual mapping
9. Internet based participatory research
10. 'Meaningfu' participation
11. Conclusions
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ]