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56 <strong>Ecominds</strong> <strong>effects</strong> on mental wellbeing5.4.5 Other mental wellbeing findingsThe three mental wellbeing measures correlatedwell, both in terms of actual scores and percentagechanges with a strong positive correlation betweenWEMWBS and RSES (51% shared variance) andmedium negative correlations for TMD with WEMWBS(15% shared variance) and with RSES (10% sharedvariance). This implies that all the wellbeing measuresshow the same improvement trends over the courseof the programme with self-esteem and wellbeingboth increasing as mood disturbance decreases.Correlation results for the three wellbeing variablesand subfactors are shown in Table 7.Table 7. Correlation matrix for mental wellbeing measures (based on percentage changefrom Time 1 to Time 2)WEMWBS 1.0WEMWBS RSES TMDRSES .714 ** 1.0TMD -.385 * -.315 ** 1.0Anger -.344 * -.444 ** .680 **Confusion -.391 * -.384 ** .723 **Depression -.409 * -.346 ** .564 **Fatigue -.394 * -.159 .641 **Tension -.464 ** -.396 ** .579 **Vigour .314 .161 - .496 **Notes: r values are reported. **. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). *. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).5.4.6 Comments from participants – Mental wellbeing 5.5 Social inclusion findingsWhat participants enjoyed most – Mental wellbeingCalming and therapeutic activity.Chilling out.Talking and learning.Working with a group and finding direction.Doing something I haven’t tried before.Getting outside, being free.Learning a new thing that I have neverdone before. I really enjoy doing it.Social inclusion is one of the key themes of the<strong>Ecominds</strong> evaluation and in the ‘In-depth’ study, fivemeasures were used to assess different elements ofsocial inclusion:• Social engagement and support• Neighbourhood belonging• Neighbourhood satisfaction• Involvement in community activities• Importance of being with other peopleAll five of these measures were used to assesschanges in participant social inclusion over theduration of the <strong>Ecominds</strong> programme (i.e. bycomparing outcome measures at the beginning and atthe end of the programme).
An evaluation for Mind 575.5.1 Social engagement and supportParticipants were asked how much they agreed ordisagreed with a series of four statements relating todifferent aspects of social engagement and support.Responses were scored on a 5-point Likert scalewhere respondents were asked to choose from‘strongly agree’, ‘agree’, ‘neutral’, ‘disagree’ and‘strongly disagree’ and an overall total engagementand support score was then calculated.To determine if there were statistically significantchanges in mean scores for each statement, a seriesof Wilcoxon Signed Rank Tests were performed 194 . Astatistically significant increase in participants feelingthat they have people who care about them (p
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