Interventions to Promote Mental Health

Question 1

What does Interventions to promote mental health mean?

Answer 1

Promoting individual wellbeing

Question 2

What does Macro mean?

Answer 2

large scale e.g. public health campaigns

Question 3

What does Micro mean?

Answer 3

individuals interventions

Question 4

What makes us happy?

Answer 4

• More money
• More time with family?
• More time with friends?
• Success

Question 5

Why can More money make us happy? (Haesevoets et al., 2023)

Answer 5

Expected happiness around envisioned win of 10 million pounds (Haesevoets et al., 2023)

Question 6

Why can More money make us happy? ( Mogliner & Norton )

Answer 6

Spending money on other and experiences rather than owning many things increases happiness

Question 7

Why can More money make us happy? (Quoidbach et al 2010)

Answer 7

Having access to the best things may actually not allow people to reap the enjoyment from lifes small pleasures

Question 8

Why can More money make us happy? Brickman et al 1978

Answer 8

Lottery winners not happier than non lottery winners

Question 9

What makes us happy with More time with friends? (Helliwell & Huang, 2013)

Answer 9

Number of friends correlated with subjective well-being even after controlling for income, demographic variables and personality differences

Question 10

What makes us happy with More time with friends? (Fowler & Christakis, 2008)

Answer 10

People more central to network of friends more likely to become happy in future

Question 11

What makes us happy with More time with family? (North et al., 2008)

Answer 11

10-year study
substantial, positive association with concurrent happiness, even after controlling for income
changes in this positively related to change in happiness#
high support = high happiness

Question 12

What makes us happy with Success? (Lyubomirsky et al., 2005)

Answer 12

Longitudinal research
Found happiness associated with and precedes numerous successful outcome

Question 13

Randomised controlled trial

Answer 13

Considered the ‘gold standard’ of intervention trial designs.

Question 14

What are the 3 elements of randomised controlled trial?

Answer 14

Randomisation
Choose participants for each condition
Preordained outcome measures
Researchers can’t cherry pick their results
Binding
Researcher and participants don’t know who is in which condition to lower bias

Question 15

Why does low bias matter in randomised controlled trial?

Answer 15

• If initial participant pool is large enough the two groups should be roughly equal but confounders distributed equally
• Randomisation stops participants being entered into condition based on researcher/ participant preference which â selection bias

Question 16

What is Selection bias?

Answer 16

when intervention group does not accurately reflect the population.

Question 17

Non-randomised controlled trial

Answer 17

Also referred to as quasi-experimental trial or study, or non-equivalent control group designs
Study utilises intervention and control/comparison group but participants not randomised

Question 18

When is Non-randomised controlled trial useful?

Answer 18

when randomisation is not possible

Question 19

Pre post trial

Answer 19

Measures are taking before and after the intervention
Generally, no control or comparison group
Easier to implement than RCTs and non-RCTs as no control/comparison group

Question 20

When is Pre post trial useful?

Answer 20

if not providing the intervention would be considered unethical