Co-Designing Qualitative Interview Methods With Young Children and Parents: Drawing, Pictures, and Puppets.

IF 3.4 3区医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Health Expectations Pub Date : 2026-10-01 DOI:10.1111/hex.70942

Arwa Katab, Bronia Arnott, Timothy Cheetham, Olivia Craw, Niina Kolehmainen

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Introduction: Children have the right to freedom of expression regarding topics important to them via any communication medium.¹ Conducting research on as opposed to with young children fails to fulfil their rights, promoting misconceptions that children are incapable of providing meaningful data. The start of formal education presents many challenges for young children; very few studies have involved children as active participants sharing their experiences. This co-design study aimed to produce, through the involvement of young children, methods for a creative interview package to be used with 4-5-year-olds to discuss the challenges of starting formal education.

Methods: Six individual co-design sessions, and three user-testing interviews with young children (aged 3-5 years), alongside one group co-design session with older children (aged 6-12 years), were used to develop and refine methods. Pictures and photo-prompts, drawing activities, and the use of a toy puppet were explored within the sessions, collecting children's verbal feedback and recommendations, as well as the researcher's reflective notes and recommendations from parents. The resulting methods were integrated into a four-stage framework (Exploration, Adaptation, Confirmation, and Evaluation) to curate the final interview methods.

Results: Barriers to children's engagement were identified with some participatory activities, for example cultural and family belief systems that discouraged self-portrait drawings within some communities. Children also engaged more in the interview once they had built a rapport with the puppet, and not only a rapport with the researcher. Pre-made images were sufficient in obtaining more detailed discussion of the children's experiences.

Conclusion: This study resulted in the first interview methods package for young children which has been co-designed with young children. The study demonstrates that young children can be active contributors in designing research if provided with the opportunity to do so.

Patient or public contribution: Children, parents and teachers provided input and shaped the design of this study.

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与幼儿和家长共同设计定性访谈方法：绘画、图片和木偶。

儿童有权通过任何传播媒介自由表达对他们重要的话题与对幼儿进行研究相反，对儿童进行研究无法实现他们的权利，助长了儿童无法提供有意义数据的误解。正规教育的开始给幼儿带来了许多挑战；很少有研究让儿童作为积极参与者分享他们的经历。这项共同设计的研究旨在通过幼儿的参与，为4-5岁的儿童提供创造性的访谈方法，以讨论开始正规教育的挑战。方法：采用六次单独的共同设计会议、三次针对幼儿（3-5岁）的用户测试访谈，以及一次针对年龄较大的儿童（6-12岁）的小组共同设计会议来开发和完善方法。在会议中探索了图片和照片提示，绘画活动和玩具木偶的使用，收集了儿童的口头反馈和建议，以及研究人员的反思笔记和父母的建议。所得到的方法被整合到一个四阶段框架（探索、适应、确认和评估）中，以策划最终的访谈方法。结果：儿童参与的障碍与一些参与性活动有关，例如，在一些社区中，文化和家庭信仰系统不鼓励自画像。一旦孩子们与木偶建立了融洽的关系，而不仅仅是与研究人员建立了融洽的关系，他们也会更多地参与到访谈中。预先制作的图像足以让我们更详细地讨论孩子们的经历。结论：本研究产生了第一个与幼儿共同设计的幼儿访谈方法包。该研究表明，如果有机会，幼儿可以积极参与设计研究。患者或公众贡献：儿童、家长和老师提供了意见并影响了本研究的设计。

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Health Expectations 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

5.20

自引率

9.40%

发文量

251

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health and social care, health policy and health services research including: • Person-centred care and quality improvement • Patients'' participation in decisions about disease prevention and management • Public perceptions of health services • Citizen involvement in health care policy making and priority-setting • Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation • Empowerment and consumerism • Patients'' role in safety and quality • Patient and public role in health services research • Co-production (researchers working with patients and the public) of research, health care and policy Health Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides an inter-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers (including PPIE researchers) from a range of backgrounds and expertise can present their work to other researchers, policy-makers, health care professionals, managers, patients and consumer advocates.