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Meeting the Challenge of Doing an RCT Evaluation of Youth Mentoring in Ireland: A Journey in Mixed Methods

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bernadine.brady{at}nuigalway.ie.

	Abstract

The youth mentoring program Big Brothers Big Sisters is one of the first social interventions involving youth in Ireland to be evaluated using a randomized controlled trial methodology. This article sets out the design process undertaken, describing how the research team came to adopt a concurrent embedded mixed methods design as a means of balancing ethical, feasibility, and scientific issues associated with the randomized controlled trial method, establishing an epistemological position and integrating data from various methods and multiple sources.

First published on May 12, 2009, doi:10.1177/1558689809335973

Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2009;3:265.

A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2009


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