Study title

India

Individual

One-to one photo-elicitation interviews were conducted face-to-face in three locations: two rehabilitation facilities and one Wellness Centre, all of which are situated in Guwahati. The three organisations also provided access to relevant participants and helped us recruit. Two demographic groups were of interest. One group consists of young people 15-18 years (7 males; 8 females) not currently abusing substances but self-report as being at risk of doing so, for example via the experience of a relative with SUD and/or peer pressure: the research seeks to understand the experience of this demographic and, in particular, their resilience to substance abuse. A second group consists of young adults 19-24 years (11 males; 4 females) who are in successful recovery from substance abuse, defined as having abstained from use for at least one year. We recruited 15 participants from each group: resilience-to-risk (R2R) and resilience-for-recovery (R4R). The Research Fellow communicated with potential participants (telephone, e-mail, face-to-face as appropriate), to explain the process of data collection which involved participants taking or collecting photographs and/or images which capture their experiences of resilience and/or recovery in relation to addictive substances of abuse. After the photos/images were gathered, the Research Fellow interviewed each participant with a focus on the images they brought. The template used for the interview prompts is included in Supporting Documents. Interviews were audio- recorded with consent and later transcribed under confidential agreement with the transcribers. Interviews conducted in the local language (Assamese) were translated to English by the transcribers. The transcripts were checked for anonymity and confidentiality, and reference to photos added into the transcript by the Research Fellow. Each transcript was again sent to a third party (with who we have confidentiality agreement) to check for anonymity and confidentiality. Any photos/images that could potentially reveal participant identity were anonymised by blurring relevant parts of the photos/images.