Empowering American Indian and Alaska Native youth to lead measurement development of an indigenous adolescent wellbeing measure: A protocol paper

American Indian and Alaska Native youth research has rarely included young people from within these populations as co-designers. In addition to the lack of youth involvement, most findings focus on presenting statistics around disparity vs. focusing on this population's unique strengths and res...

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Published in:	Frontiers in public health Vol. 10; p. 994434
Main Authors:	Quintana, Sierra, Ivanich, Jerreed D, Pikok, Kimberly, Nez, Shanoa, Zepeda, Zenetta
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 18-11-2022
Subjects:	Adolescent Adolescent Health Alaska Natives American Indian and Alaska Native American Indian or Alaska Native health Humans indigenous health indigenous youth Power, Psychological Public Health wellbeing Young Adult youth led research American Indian and Alaska Native youth led research health indigenous youth wellbeing indigenous health
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Summary:	American Indian and Alaska Native youth research has rarely included young people from within these populations as co-designers. In addition to the lack of youth involvement, most findings focus on presenting statistics around disparity vs. focusing on this population's unique strengths and resiliency. The research design of this protocol aims to fill this gap in the current literature. To address this discrepancy, a multipronged approach to youth and young adult participatory research was implemented. These prongs included a virtual gathering where the Nominal Group Technique was conducted and an assembly of a Youth Research Design Team. Lastly, the research team will implement a protocol developed by the Research Design Team. The Research Design Team plans to conduct qualitative interviews and distribute a web-based quantitative survey with a raffle as respondent compensation. This protocol is a preliminary phase to developing a wellbeing measure for AIAN youth. Having an operationalized definition of wellness from AIAN youth will fill a gap in the current body of research with optimism that this will lead to additional studies exploring the AIAN youth voice.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Nakiya Naomi Showell, Johns Hopkins Medicine, United States Reviewed by: Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Northern Arizona University, United States; Hung-Wen Yeh, Children's Research Institute, United States; Justin Reedy, University of Oklahoma, United States These authors have contributed equally to this work and share last authorship This article was submitted to Children and Health, a section of the journal Frontiers in Public Health
ISSN:	2296-2565 2296-2565
DOI:	10.3389/fpubh.2022.994434