Barriers and Facilitators to Youth Participation in Digital Youth Mental Health Interventions: An Umbrella Review Protocol
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IntroductionYouth participation is increasingly positioned as best practice in digital youth mental health (DYMH) research. However, evidence on how participation is implemented in practice, and on the barriers and facilitators that shape meaningful youth involvement in research, remains fragmented across the literature. While individual reviews have examined aspects of youth participation within specific intervention types or contexts, this represents the first umbrella review synthesising the available evidence focused on participation across DYMH interventions.MethodThis protocol outlines an umbrella review that will synthesise evidence from existing reviews reporting barriers and facilitators to youth participation in the design, evaluation, and implementation of DYMH interventions. The review will follow Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidance for umbrella reviews. Searches will be conducted across interdisciplinary databases including Cochrane Library, Scopus, PubMed, PsycINFO, ACM Digital Library, and Lens. Eligible studies will include peer-reviewed systematic, scoping, narrative, rapid, and practitioner reviews published in English from 2015 onwards. Methodological quality will be appraised using guidance from the JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist for Systematic Reviews and Research Syntheses. Findings will be synthesised narratively.DiscussionThis umbrella review will provide the first synthesis of review-level evidence on barriers and facilitators to youth participation and co-design in digital youth mental health interventions, with implications for the design and implementation of relevant and youth-focused digital mental health interventions.
