Involving Young People in Parenting Programmes
SECTION 3
3.3 Young People in the Study Sample
Out of the approximately 127 families who took part in the IYPP project interventions there were 104 young people who completed the ‘Before’ questionnaires and were included in the study sample. Additionally, interventions for 7 families involved other siblings, so 2 or more children were involved. However in these families only the young people whose behaviour led to involvement in the intervention were included by the PRB in their study sample of 104 young people.
The young people sample consisted of 60 boys and 44 girls who were aged between 10-17 years. Most were between 11 and 15 years old. The young people were mostly White British (n=89), with the remaining young people defining their ethnic group as either Asian (n=5), mixed White/Asian (n=5), mixed White/Black (n=2), with 2 young people defining their ethnic group as ‘other’.6
Of the 104 young people included in the study sample:
- 104 young people completed ‘Before’ questionnaires
- 61 young people completed both ‘Before’ and ‘After’ questionnaires
- 21 out of the 104 young people (20%)‘dropped out’ or did not complete the intervention
Additionally 4 young people completed only ‘After’ questionnaires
Eight young people were interviewed individually by the PRB at the end of the project.
6 For one young person this information is missing.