Creating Safe Spaces to Explore Young Women’s Experiences of Mental Health and Help-Seeking
摘要
This chapter tracks the development and rollout of our survey and online focus groups. We set out our research aims, describe the development of our online qualitative survey and how we used that to recruit participants for our online focus groups and co-design workshops. During the first focus group, the young women provided deeper context to the survey responses. This collective approach to the study provided the young women with a safe space to hear and share experiences, exercise choice and control, and enabled collaboration and relationship building. Such an approach is critical to co-designing new online mental health resources and supports tailored to the unique mental health needs and gendered experiences of young women.