Table 4.
Barriers identified by participants before the workshop and six months later, with McNemar chi‐square significance value
| Barrier | Pre‐workshop | 6 month follow‐up | P |
|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Not sure how to engage youth on a practical level | 26 (45.6%) | 11 (19.3%) | <.001 |
| Don't know how to get a representative group of youth together | 24 (42.1%) | 12 (21.1%) | .017 |
| Don't know how to prepare youth to engage in research in this way | 24 (42.1%) | 13 (22.8%) | .027 |
| Don't have funding to support this | 21 (36.8%) | 24 (42.1%) | .607 |
| Unsure about the ethical considerations of engaging youth | 20 (35.1%) | 8 (14.0%) | .012 |
| Don't have time or human resources to support this | 9 (15.8%) | 22 (38.6%) | .004 |
| Department/university doesn't recognize the value | 6 (10.5%) | 10 (17.5%) | .219 |
| Other institutional barrier | 6 (10.5%) | 9 (15.8%) | .508 |
| Not sure I can appropriately relate to youth or communicate with them effectively | 3 (5.3%) | 9 (15.8%) | .109 |
| Not relevant to the type of research I do | 2 (3.5%) | 4 (7.0%) | .687 |
| Not interested in working in this way | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | n/a |