Community empowerment and mental wellbeing: longitudinal findings from a survey of people actively involved in the big local place-based initiative in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community empowerment initiatives are receiving increased interest as ways of improving health and reducing health inequalities.

Purpose

Longitudinally examine associations between collective control, social-cohesion and mental wellbeing amongst participants in the Big Local community empowerment initiative across 150 disadvantaged areas of England.

Methods

As part of the independent Communities in Control study, we analysed nested cohort survey data on mental wellbeing (Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale-SWEMWBS) and perceptions of collective control and social-cohesion. Data were obtained in 2016, 2018 and 2020 for 217 residents involved in the 150 Big Local areas in England. Adjusted linear mixed effect models were utilized to examine changes

SUBMITTER: Akhter N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10273354 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature