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Hepatitis C: Intervention Programming for Youth at Risk - Final Consolidated Report

Appendix A - Interview Guide - Intermediaries

Introductory remarks focused on the objectives of this project: determining the best means to reach youth at risk with a prevention message regarding hepatitis C.

• What do you think are the main health concerns of youth at risk?
• How aware do you think kids are of the risks of hepatitis C?
• What facts or messages about hepatitis C do you think youth at risk are likely to take seriously enough for it to have an impact on their behaviour? Why? (or if they say "none", Why not? Any ideas on how to get around that?) If required, prompt with the following messages:
  • There are 4,000-5,000 new cases of hepatitis C each year, many of them among youth.
  • Two to three times more people will die from hepatitis C this year than from AIDS.
  • Hepatitis C infection is the leading cause of liver transplants¹.
• What programs (on any subject) do you operate that are targeted to kids who are at-risk for hepatitis C? I'm not concentrating here on only hepatitis C programs - we want to find out about any programs that seem to work with this target group.

If there are multiple programs:

• Which do you feel is the most successful of these programs? How has success been measured?
• What is it about this program that makes it work?
• What programs, or element of programs, have you found to be ineffective, and why?

If there is only 1 program

Is the program successful?

• What elements of it are effective?
• What elements haven't worked well?
• Do you actively consult/engage youth to help you make programming decisions? If yes, how?
• What type of outreach do you think is most effective (peer-to-peer, adult intermediary, mobile units, theatre presentations, dinner groups, etc.)? Why?
• Do you know of any materials or formats that are particularly effective (brochures, videos, web sites)? What makes you say so?
• Where (physical location) do you generally try to reach at-risk kids?
• Based on what you know of your local street youth culture, who do these kids find credible, or cool? We're focusing here on any groups that could be harnessed for outreach, so that includes the traditional health and social service providers, but could also include tattoo artists, food bank workers, or others you can think of.
• If you were given program money today, where would you spend it, and why?
• Are there any particular materials or programs (training, for example) you need to improve the effectiveness of your hepatitis C programming?

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Note:

1. Note: New information emerged after the intermediary interviews, resulting in these messages being changed slightly for the focus groups with youth. See "Key Fact Sheet," Appendix D, for the most recent messages.

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