The INSCHOOL project - workstream 3, assessment development
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The INSCHOOL project - Investigating and documenting the school lives of high school pupils living with long-term physical health conditions: Needs-assessment development
IRAS ID
333261
Contact name
Simon Pini
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The University of Leeds
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 17 days
Research summary
The INSCHOOL project is a 5-year programme of research funded by the National Institute of Health Research. The overall aim of the project is to understand the school lives of secondary school pupils living with long-term physical health conditions and develop better ways to assess the needs that they have. So far the INSCHOOL team have carried out interviews and focus groups with 89 young people from 11 different health clinics, and this has given us a good understanding of the needs they have at school. In this new workstream we will use our findings to develop a needs-assessment. This needs-assessment will be developed with the support of young people and through robust statistical methods to make sure it is measuring their needs in the right way. The needs-assessment will provide an important new tool for screening for young people with unmet needs in their school lives. There is currently very little information about how young people with health conditions experience school, and even less on the similarities and differences across different types of conditions. As part of developing the new assessment we will ask around 280 young people from across 14 clinical groups to complete it, which will tell us more about the needs these young people have in their school lives.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds West Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/YH/0007
Date of REC Opinion
18 Jan 2024
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion