Searching for best practices of youth friendly services - a study protocol using qualitative comparative analysis in Sweden
Background: Swedish youth clinics constitute one of the most comprehensive and consolidated examples of a nationwide network of health care services for young people. However, studies evaluating their 'youth-friendliness' and the combination of factors that makes them more or less 'yo...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-125587 2023-10-09T21:54:38+02:00 Searching for best practices of youth friendly services - a study protocol using qualitative comparative analysis in Sweden Goicolea, Isabel Christianson, Monica Hurtig, Anna-Karin Marchal, Bruno San Sebastian, Miguel Wiklund, Maria 2016 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-125587 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1570-8 eng eng Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad Umeå universitet, Institutionen för samhällsmedicin och rehabilitering BMC Health Services Research, 2016, 16, http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-125587 doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1570-8 PMID 27473421 ISI:000380647500006 Scopus 2-s2.0-84979780130 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Young people Youth-friendly health services Youth clinics Qualitative comparative analysis Primary alth care Evaluation Other Health Sciences Annan hälsovetenskap Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2016 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1570-8 2023-09-22T13:57:12Z Background: Swedish youth clinics constitute one of the most comprehensive and consolidated examples of a nationwide network of health care services for young people. However, studies evaluating their 'youth-friendliness' and the combination of factors that makes them more or less 'youth-friendly' have not been conducted. This protocol will scrutinise the current youth-friendliness of youth clinics in northern Sweden and identify the best combination of conditions needed in order to implement the criteria of youth-friendliness within Swedish youth clinics and elsewhere. Methods/design: In this study, we will use qualitative comparative analysis to analyse the conditions that are sufficient and/or necessary to implement Youth Friendly Health Services in 20 selected youth-clinics (cases). In order to conduct Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we will first identify the outcomes and the conditions to be assessed. The overall outcome - youth-friendliness - will be assessed together with specific outcomes for each of the five domains - accessible, acceptable, equitable, appropriate and effective. This will be done using a questionnaire to be applied to a sample of young people coming to the youth clinics. In terms of conditions, we will first identify what might be the key conditions, to ensure the youth friendliness of health care services, through literature review, interviews with professionals working at youth clinics, and with young people. The combination of conditions and outcomes will form the hypothesis to be further tested later on in the qualitative comparative analysis of the 20 cases. Once information on outcomes and conditions is gathered from each of the 20 clinics, it will be analysed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Discussion: The added value of this study in relation to the findings is twofold: on the one hand it will allow a thorough assessment of the youth-friendliness of northern Swedish youth clinics. On the other hand, it will extract lessons from one of the most consolidated examples of ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) BMC Health Services Research 16 1 |
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Background: Swedish youth clinics constitute one of the most comprehensive and consolidated examples of a nationwide network of health care services for young people. However, studies evaluating their 'youth-friendliness' and the combination of factors that makes them more or less 'youth-friendly' have not been conducted. This protocol will scrutinise the current youth-friendliness of youth clinics in northern Sweden and identify the best combination of conditions needed in order to implement the criteria of youth-friendliness within Swedish youth clinics and elsewhere. Methods/design: In this study, we will use qualitative comparative analysis to analyse the conditions that are sufficient and/or necessary to implement Youth Friendly Health Services in 20 selected youth-clinics (cases). In order to conduct Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we will first identify the outcomes and the conditions to be assessed. The overall outcome - youth-friendliness - will be assessed together with specific outcomes for each of the five domains - accessible, acceptable, equitable, appropriate and effective. This will be done using a questionnaire to be applied to a sample of young people coming to the youth clinics. In terms of conditions, we will first identify what might be the key conditions, to ensure the youth friendliness of health care services, through literature review, interviews with professionals working at youth clinics, and with young people. The combination of conditions and outcomes will form the hypothesis to be further tested later on in the qualitative comparative analysis of the 20 cases. Once information on outcomes and conditions is gathered from each of the 20 clinics, it will be analysed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Discussion: The added value of this study in relation to the findings is twofold: on the one hand it will allow a thorough assessment of the youth-friendliness of northern Swedish youth clinics. On the other hand, it will extract lessons from one of the most consolidated examples of ... |
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Searching for best practices of youth friendly services - a study protocol using qualitative comparative analysis in Sweden |
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