Focus Group Data on Adolescent Climate Distress

27 expert participants contributed to qualitative focus groups on adolescent and young adult mental health related to climate change. Sonya M. Jampel authored this dataset, which was last updated in April 2026. It contains qualitative analysis results from experts across public health, epidemiology, community organizations, and clinical practice.

Use Cases

• Analyze expert-derived themes like 'Knowledge Generation' and 'Framing and Communication' to guide intervention frameworks.
• Use participant discipline data (public health, epidemiology, clinical mental health) to compare perspectives on climate distress priorities.
• Apply the identified meta-themes, such as 'centering most-impacted populations', to design targeted public health programs.

Strengths

• Qualitative data from 27 experts across multiple relevant disciplines.
• Clear thematic analysis resulting in three primary themes and two meta-themes.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Very small dataset at 9.5 KB, indicating limited quantitative scope or sample size.
• No raw transcript or column details provided, only summary analysis.
• Geographic and demographic scope of the expert participants is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Sonya M. Jampel via figshare.

Collection Method

Qualitative focus groups with iterative inductive content analysis.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

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