Additional practical barriers identified by participants
| Practical barriers | Example quote(s) |
| Too much text | I think, like in a way they’ve got lots of information, but for a, a teenager, or even maybe younger, they would get in and be like: ‘Aw, I’m not looking at that’ – and just come back off it. Like if I go onto this one and it’s, this one and there’s like quite a lot of this, and then like, it all just continues the—whole way down the page of different things, I’d get bored with reading that (Mia) |
| Tone of content |
We’re talking about adult issues, you know, with our bodies. We’re not here to watch like a Thomas the Tank Engine explain it or anything like that (
laughing) (Liam) I think it’s like us, because we’re like teens, we’ll like want to be comforted like we won’t want to be told ‘right, go to your clinic like right away (Jess) |
| Lack of individually relevant content | There’s a lot of stuff aimed at women … there seems to be a lot aimed at women, know what I mean? There’s no’ really any tips for men (Dylan) |
| Formal and medical terminology |
Some of them (
websites
) were more detailed and more medical words … some people don’t do biology and they don’t know like big long words (Laura) Ones ( websites ) without slang, what if you don’t know what you’re looking for? Like, words like, ‘cause you might not have heard, like a proper medical name for it. So they’d be like, wouldn’t have like any idea what they’re looking for then (Caleb) |