The goal of this project was to develop a survey and interview subject matter experts to identify the mental health issues that are present within the middle and high school youth community on Nantucket. The online survey was designed to be modular and customizable to the user and contained a mixture of Likert scale and multiple-choice questions, and open-response questions. A slightly modified version of the survey was also distributed to Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduates to gather data that could be compared with data from the Nantucket Youth Survey. Based on an analysis of the survey results, follow up recommendations included conducting focus groups with schoolteachers and counselors and interviews with youth-oriented professionals, adding specific questions to the survey to obtain data on future career interest and homelife, and investigating minority groups that do not have as much representation in their respective schools or communities as their peers.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Laurens, Mary
• Mclean, Elisia
• Hoffler, Simeon
• St Jean, Myles

Subject

• Health
• Project-Based Learning
• Culture
• Learning
• Well-Being
• Community
• Inclusion

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121223-164309
• 115039

Keyword

• Mental Health
• Survey
• Youth
• Behavioral Health

Advisor

• Golding, Dominic
• Jarvis, Susan M.
• Looft, Fred J.

Year

• 2023

Center

• Nantucket, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Jerico Mele

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Date created

• 2023-12-12

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-121223-164309

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-02-08