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. 2020 Jun 11;24(Suppl 1):147–160. doi: 10.1111/hex.13063
Name Description
Building cross cutting connections This is a higher level node linked to the ID model. It includes statements of building understanding across perspectives.
Attune to connection This includes statements that recognize shared understanding or meaning, and other connections across perspectives.
Strengthen relations This captures any statements that pertain to building stronger relations across perspectives.
Empowering This captures comments about whether participating in the EBCD process was an empowering experience.
Ensuring safety This node captures statements regarding anonymity of participants creating a sense of safety in presenting negative feedback.
Logistics This is a higher level node that captures comments in the evaluation data about logistical considerations.
Enough time This captures references to wanting more time (or not) in conducting various activities.
Facilitation This captures comments about the effectiveness of facilitation.
Feeling appreciated This captures comments about the extent to which the participants felt their contributions were appreciated.
Focus on the positive This captures any appreciative statements about how the co‐design event focused on improving the system for the future.
Providing background materials This includes statements about whether having background material to refer to in advance of the events was helpful or not.
Moments of integration This node includes any ‘aha’ moments where participants describe how the process inspired them, or brought them together in ways they had never experienced before.
Nonlinearity This captures the back and forth iterative process of working through each of these steps, and emotional responses in particular.
Open mindset This includes statements about whether a positive, open mindset existed at the co‐design event.
Path to harmony comprises both past and future This includes statements about the importance of acknowledging the past as well as thinking through new ways of working together in the future.
Reconfiguring the relationship This is a higher level node that captures comments about how relationships need to/are changing between participants.
Allowing for flexibility as we restructure relationships This includes statements about the importance of flexibility in the solutions including the need for an individualized approach.
Envision scenarios for co‐existence This captures examples which include changing extent of family involvement, information‐sharing to inform families; involving youth in every decision; and service providers getting to know each other across organizations.
Power of prototypes and metaphor in reconfiguring This captures examples of how the use of visuals/metaphor facilitates building appreciation and stronger relationships among participants.
Synthesized identities This includes statements where identity elements of each group are reflected in the final solution, while allowing for remaining areas of difference (like the centre of a Venn diagram).
Structural transformation This is a higher level code that captures structural changes being proposed in a number of subdomains.
Accountability This includes statements about the need for more accountability in the system.
Common approaches across services This includes statements about the need to have a more common approach between child and adult services.
Improving communication This includes statements about the need for improved communication across services and stakeholder groups.
Informational restructuring This captures statement about the need for ways of restructuring information flows among the various groups and services.
Reducing barriers This includes statements about the need to improve financial, transportation, waitlists as other barriers to smooth transitions.
Structuring the event in stages This includes statements about whether it was helpful to work together in a step by step process with gradual integration of groups and perspectives.
Uncovering the mythos of identity This includes data where the personal significance of the issue is uncovered, including, how participants of each perspective view each other. For example, service providers may see each other as the ‘protectors’ of the youth's confidentiality at all costs. This is the higher level code for all 3 perspectives.
Caregiver identity statements This includes caregiver statements that reveal how they see themselves in relation to others in the system.
Service provider identity statements This includes statements revealing how service providers see themselves with respect to others in the system.
Youth identity statements This includes statements that reveal how youth see themselves in relation to others in the system.
Working through emotional pain This is a higher level code that captures any themes pertaining to emotional pain that were discussed and worked through (intentionally or not, through the activities) consistent with the ID model.
Initial problems This includes statements about problems in transitions in the current system or in relationships among perspectives.
Not feeling alone This includes statements about the benefits of hearing from others with similar experiences during the deliberations.
Offering hope This includes statements about how EBCD processes/activities provided participants with a sense of hope.
Witness and appreciate each other's pain This includes statements where there is evidence of people interacting to hear and support each other in their pain (past or current) relating to youth mental health transitions.