Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | |
Sociodemographics | |||
Age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, living situation, SES | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sexual orientation | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Education level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓* |
General health | |||
Mental & physical health | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
COVID comorbidities | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Mental health concerns | |||
DSM-5 Self-Rated Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Additional Self-Harm and Suicide Items | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Substance use | |||
ASSIST and self-perceived use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MHA care needs and preferences | |||
Service utilisation and access checklists:
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Satisfaction with services | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Support types and mode preferences | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
COVID-19 experiences | |||
Impacts of pandemic checklist | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Anxiety of self or others contracting COVID | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
COVID-19 symptoms: types, duration and severity | ✗ | ✓ | ✓† |
Vaccine intentions and status | ✗ | ✓‡ | ✓ |
Social support and Positive Perceptions Scale | |||
Satisfaction with social supports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Positive Perceptions Scale | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Caregiving responsibilities | |||
Caregiver strain | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Impact on own well-being | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Youth MHA needs (reported by caregiver) | |||
Count, demographics, and general MHA observation and service access | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Emotional, behavioural and substance use concerns | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
MHA service access for youth with greatest need (reported by caregiver) | |||
Service types accessed | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Need for service and waitlist status | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Barriers to access | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Support type preferences | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
*Amended to include ‘More than one university degree (ie, Master, PhD)’.
†Duration and severity assessed only.
‡No dose 3/booster.
ASSIST, Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test; DSM-5, Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5; MHA, mental health and addictions; SES, socioeconomic status.