Project Details
Description
This short project is funded by the Brigstow Institute Ideas Exchange Fund and will enable me to engage with the McPin Foundation Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG) to develop a collaborative fully-fledged proposal for an interdisciplinary post-doctoral research fellowship. The crux of the research fellowship will be to investigate the role of social media algorithmic literacy in preventing self-harm and depression in young people.
The McPin Foundation [https://mcpin.org/projects-programmes/young-peoples-network/] was established in 2007 as a mental health research charity that is increasingly devoted to involving people with lived experience as partners in research that aims to have a transformative impact. Three young people aged 16-18 years who have lived experience of self-harm and/or depression will be recruited through McPin to help elaborate three aspects of my fellowship proposal.
First, to collaborate to develop and refine a research question, scope and search strategy for a systematic review. This review would aim to synthesise evidence of the effectiveness of social media literacy interventions in protecting young people’s mental health. Emerging evidence is scant and largely focused on interventions to enhance body image and prevent eating disorders. It will therefore be prudent to broaden the scope of the review to mental health outcomes including (but not limited to) self-harm. Second, to provide written input into the focus and scope of an intervention to improve social media literacy in UK secondary schools, and the prioritisation of outcomes to include in a feasibility pilot study (for example, exposure to self-harm content, measures of well-being, depression or self-harm thoughts and behaviours). Third, to provide written feedback on a lay summary of my proposal for the fellowship.
The McPin Foundation [https://mcpin.org/projects-programmes/young-peoples-network/] was established in 2007 as a mental health research charity that is increasingly devoted to involving people with lived experience as partners in research that aims to have a transformative impact. Three young people aged 16-18 years who have lived experience of self-harm and/or depression will be recruited through McPin to help elaborate three aspects of my fellowship proposal.
First, to collaborate to develop and refine a research question, scope and search strategy for a systematic review. This review would aim to synthesise evidence of the effectiveness of social media literacy interventions in protecting young people’s mental health. Emerging evidence is scant and largely focused on interventions to enhance body image and prevent eating disorders. It will therefore be prudent to broaden the scope of the review to mental health outcomes including (but not limited to) self-harm. Second, to provide written input into the focus and scope of an intervention to improve social media literacy in UK secondary schools, and the prioritisation of outcomes to include in a feasibility pilot study (for example, exposure to self-harm content, measures of well-being, depression or self-harm thoughts and behaviours). Third, to provide written feedback on a lay summary of my proposal for the fellowship.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 17/04/23 → 30/06/23 |
Research Groups and Themes
- SASH
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