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Abstract:

This paper explores the benefits and costs of involving young service users in research in terms of the impact on:

• developing and delivering research
• dissemination and service development
• young people
• adult researchers.

The author concludes that these benefits and costs cannot be summed up to decide whether or how to involve young people in any particular research project. He argues that this decision is more likely be influenced by political, ethical and practical considerations. Further work is needed to determine when it is best to involve young people in different parts of the research process and where this involvement is most likely to result in service improvements and better service outcomes.

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Categories: social care
Identifying topics, prioritising and commissioning
Designing research
Undertaking research
Writing up and disseminating
impact on research
impact on service users involved
impact on researchers
impact on implementation and change
impact of public involvement
journal article
Recruitment
Implementation and change

Date Entered: 2007/03/01

Date Edited: 2012/11/21