Focus Group Data on Adolescent Climate Distress

Sonya M. Jampel's dataset contains qualitative focus group data from 27 experts across public health, epidemiology, community organizations, and clinical practice. It was created to develop a framework for addressing mental health and distress related to climate change in adolescents and young adults. The data was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze qualitative themes like Knowledge Generation, Framing and Communication, and Resource Allocation from expert discussions.
• Identify meta-themes such as centering most-impacted populations and focusing on systemic change within the coded focus group data.
• Examine disciplinary perspectives from fields like public health and clinical practice on viable treatments for climate distress.
• Study the expert-derived framework for organizing transdisciplinary work to address adolescent and young adult climate distress.

Strengths

• Data is derived from 27 expert participants across multiple disciplines.
• Provides a structured qualitative framework with three primary themes and two meta-themes.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited raw data or summary-level information.
• Contains no individual participant records or demographic columns for quantitative analysis.
• Geographic scope of the expert participants is not specified, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Sonya M. Jampel via figshare.

Collection Method

Qualitative focus groups with iterative inductive content analysis.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.