Abstract
This paper examines youth’s disclosure experiences within the context of chronic illness, drawing on examples from IN•GAUGE, an on-going research program led by Dr. Roberta L. Woodgate. Youth’s descriptions of their disclosure experiences provide valuable insights into the ways in which they use their voice in everyday life. This examination of the disclosure experiences of youth offers a lens through which the concept of youth voice in the research process can be understood and youth’s agency foregrounded. We present implications for researchers, ethics boards, funding agencies, and others who engage in youth-centered research, and offer alternative terminology to use in characterizing the elicitation and dissemination of youth voice in the research process. We contend that conceptualizing such efforts as giving youth voice has the potential to discredit the significant agency and autonomy that youth demonstrate in sharing their stories, perspectives, and opinions within the research context. We advocate for the adoption of the phrase of providing or creating space for youth voice, as one alternative to the phrase giving youth voice.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-23-2020
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920958974
Funding Information
RLW is supported by a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Child and Family Engagement in Health Research and Healthcare (CIHR - Canadian Research Chair - 950-231845).
Repository Citation
Woodgate, Roberta Lynn; Tennent, Pauline; and Barriage, Sarah C., "Creating Space for Youth Voice: Implications of Youth Disclosure Experiences for Youth-Centered Research" (2020). Information Science Faculty Publications. 89.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/slis_facpub/89
Notes/Citation Information
Published in International Journal of Qualitative Methods, v. 19.
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