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| Project title |
Children’s
concerns about parents’ and significant others’
health and well-being and how this impacts on their lives |
| Funding details |
Funded by ESRC |
| Research
team |
Sharon Ogilvie-Whyte,
Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Lynn
Jamieson,
Anne Houston (Childline Scotland), Sarah Morton. |
| Dates |
Feb 2004- Feb 2005 |
| Type of project |
Completed research
project |
| Keywords |
Children and young people, health,
illness and health promotion |
| Project description |
A collaboration between Childline
Scotland and CRFR led to an ESRC award to explore ChildLine
Scotland’s unique database.
The project focused on children’s health-related concerns
about parents and significant others. ChildLine Scotland is
the free, confidential, telephone counselling service for children
and young people in trouble, need or danger. Its data-base contains
information which provides insight into the experiences and
views of young people, however, to date, this database has been
little researched. Children’s concerns about the health
and well being of others and the effect of those concerns on
their own lives form a significant minority of calls to ChildLine
and have proved particularly difficult to research by other
means.
The project analysed the data after it has been anonymised by
ChildLine Scotland, examining the concerns that children aged
11-15 identified about these health and well-being issues:
*How do children express these concerns and their impact on
their lives?
*What strategies do they talk about for managing these concerns?
ChildLine Scotland’s database is particularly interesting
as it contains the problems that children themselves identify
but which they find it hard to share in other settings, such
as a research interviews.
The project also explored the most effective ways of disseminating
the findings of the research, including a range of accessible
printed dissemination documents, a seminar to draw out policy
and practice implications, and a conference involving children
and young people. |
Publications/
dissemination |
Read
the report |
| Contact |
Sarah
Morton |
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