Table 1 Overview of the four research projects (‘cases’)
Cambodia | India | Sweden | Zambia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Host organisation | Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Caritas-CCAMH) | Burans, a mental health initiative of Herbertpur Christian Hospital | Umeå University | The University of Zambia, School of Public Health |
Setting | Four prisons representative of the regions in Cambodia | Three informal urban communities in North India | Five rural communities in northern Sweden | Four rural schools in the Central Province of Zambia |
Time | January 2018–August 2019 | March 2019 to March 2020 | August 2019–January 2020 | August–November 2018 |
Study aim | To understand the mental health profiles and needs among young prisoners and to ‘give voice’ to them in shaping the prison mental health system | To explore gender relations for young people living in urban low-income communities | To explore collective imaginaries of caring landscapes for rural youth | To analyse constructions of young people’s sexualities and sexual health and the consequences of these discourses for their sexual reproductive health and rights |
Participants | Young people aged 15–24 years involved in the cross-sectional survey (young men) and in the six FGDs (young men and women) | Young men and women aged 12–19 years of age | Young people aged 15–27 years of age with diverse ethnicity, gender, functionality and sexuality | Male and female students aged 16 and older who had previously participated in an intervention aimed at increasing comprehensive sexual knowledge |
Methodology | Mixed methods research | Qualitative study nested within a randomised controlled trial | Concept mapping (mixed methods research) | Qualitative study |
Methods | Quantitative cross-sectional survey and qualitative focus group discussions | Multiple qualitative data modelled on participatory rural appraisal collected by both youth peers and researchers | Qualitative interviews and focus group discussions combined with a workshop and multivariate statistical methods | Photo elicitation in combination with in-depth interviews and focus group discussions |