Engaging adolescents in chronic disease prevention research: insights from researchers about establishing and facilitating a youth advisory group

Abstract

Abstract Our comment discusses our experience establishing a youth advisory group focused on chronic disease prevention research. The comment highlights three key learnings: the need for researchers to adapt their working style, the importance of redefining the power dynamics, and disrupting traditional research structures to align with co-researcher engagement models.

Keywords

• Youth
• Adolescent
• Participatory research
• Advisory group
• Consumer
• Chronic disease prevention