Planet Youth Survey: Galway, Mayo, Roscommon 2024

Planet Youth is the local adaptation and implementation, in Galway, Mayo, and Roscommon, of the Icelandic Prevention Model (IPM). The Planet Youth study administers a biennial lifestyle questionnaire to 15–16-year-olds in the target community. In this instance the target community was all 80 of the post primary schools, and 10 Youthreach Centres, in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. The purpose of the study is to examine the risk and protective factors in the lives and social environment of young people and to generate the data that will inform the development of community-based preventative interventions to address same. Interventions developed are in the four domains of: Parents and Family School Leisure time and local community Peer group