Experience Of Well-being Research Articles

Psychological Wellbeing of Married and Cohabited Young Women

Psychological wellbeing is the mental state of satisfaction. Being happy psychologically. Able to perceive happiness is called the psychological wellbeing. Psychological wellbeing differs from person to person. The experience of positive emotion or subjective wellbeing. Marriage is also a positive component but how individual perceive differ. Some prefer trail marriage to experience their happiness subjectively. Marriage and cohabitation both have its merits and demerits. Keeping above points in view the present study was undertaken to find out the psychological wellbeing of married and cohabited young adults were taken for the study. A Total of (N=60) married and (N=60) cohabited young adults (only men) were included in the study. A Psychological wellbeing questionnaire developed by (Sisoda and Choudhary, 2012) was administered. The obtained result shows that there is a significant difference between Marriage and cohabitation young adults in their psychological wellbeing scale score, the probable reasons were discussed in this study.

Impact of the Enhanced Universal Support Offer to Care Homes during COVID-19 in the UK: Evaluation using appreciative inquiry.

There are over 2,300 care homes in the North East and Yorkshire Region, with rising rates of COVID‐19 infection in April 2020. The Enhanced Universal Support Offer (EUSO) planned to improve support to care homes, working collaboratively with local integrated community services. Implementation was organised at ‘place’, through clinical commissioning and it was focused on leadership, prevention, additional clinical support, and workforce planning. The aim of the evaluation research was to understand the impact of the EUSO. The evaluation was co‐produced by a group of senior leaders with additional academic involvement. An appreciative inquiry approach informed the interviews and focus groups with representative stakeholders. A thematic analysis using NVivo enabled a validation process and the data were charted into a systems framework. Data analysis resulted in five high level themes: Communication, Working Relationships, Systemic Perceptions, COVID‐19 Implementation, and Organisational Support. Best practices were associated with joint working between health, local authority and care homes including medication optimisation and technology use. Care homes valued access to a named General Practitioner and community nursing working as a part of a wider multidisciplinary team. Conversely an overly reactive response to care homes combined with ‘command and control’ limited the benefits that were achieved. The EUSO was delivered at pace and resulted in an increased appreciation of the policy and principles of care home residents and workforce. The evaluation reflected a need to appreciate the care homes' knowledge and experience of resident wellbeing, and more fully involve them in the design of the support.

Exploring experiences of supports for suicide bereavement in Ireland: protocol for a national survey.

Background A suicide death impacts upon the wellbeing of close family members and friends but has also been shown to affect many people outside of this immediate circle. This will be the first large-scale national study of adults bereaved or affected by suicide in Ireland, using a cross-sectional online survey. The overarching aim will be to gain insight into the experiences of supports received by people bereaved or affected by suicide and to identify the barriers to engagement following their loss. Methods A cross-sectional survey will be conducted among adults in Ireland who have been bereaved or affected by suicide. This project will seek to represent people with different demographics and backgrounds in the Irish population using a multifaceted approach to survey recruitment. A range of validated measures will be used to examine participants' current wellbeing and grief experience. A combination of closed and open-ended questions will provide participants the opportunity to share their individual experiences, the services and supports available to them, and barriers and enablers to accessing supports. Results Quantitative data will be analysed using descriptive statistics. Chi-squared tests will be used to compare subgroups within categorical data items, and multivariable regression models will be used to examine differences in psychosocial and physical wellbeing across key groups. Qualitative content analysis will be used for qualitative responses to open-ended questions. Conclusions The survey will provide an in-depth understanding of the psychosocial and mental health impacts of suicide bereavement in Ireland; insight into the range of informal and formal supports accessed; and will identify unmet needs and challenges of accessing appropriate and timely supports. The findings will inform current national actions aimed at ensuring the standardisation and quality of the services and supports for those bereaved or affected by suicide.

What makes life enjoyable at an older age? Daily activities and satisfaction with life in general

Abstract Objectives This study uses a broad range of activities to examine how the type of activity, its social context, associated stress, importance, and the level of effort required are linked with activity enjoyment. Using aggregated data from all activities, it analyses the association between the experiential wellbeing of individuals and their satisfaction with life in general. Methods The dataset included 1809 activities, reported by 200 non-institutionalised adults, aged 65 and above, living in Poland. Activity data were collected using the experience sampling method. Multilevel mixed effects models examined what makes an activity enjoyable for older adults. Linear regression models examined the relationship between aggregated subjective activity characteristics and satisfaction with life in general. Results The most enjoyable activities were religious practice, childcare, and socialising. Enjoyment was positively associated with perceived activity importance, inversely associated with stress, and formed a U-shaped association with effort. On the aggregated level, a higher mean enjoyment predicted a higher satisfaction with life in general, whereas the opposite was the case for the mean importance. However, having greater variance in importance was associated with higher satisfaction with life. Conclusions Enjoyable daily activities may boost the global wellbeing of older adults. Balancing high-effort and low-effort activities may provide additional benefits. This study points to new directions for research and shows that activities rarely studied in the existing literature have significant effects on the wellbeing of older adults. Key messages Some activities having significant effects on the wellbeing of older adults have not received sufficient research attention. Balancing low-effort and high-effort activities and prioritizing enjoyable activities seems to boost evaluative wellbeing.

An Integrative Review of Experience of Well-Being and Happiness: Insights from Older Adults in the Community

Well-being and happiness are the ultimate goals of older people. Having a good quality of life is very important for this age group, in which well-being can be predicted through life experiences. Research on the older adult group demonstrates that well-being is positively associated with happiness. In turn, happiness is linked with better coping, lower morbidity and lower mortality. Therefore, studying to understand this phenomenon, according to the experiences and perceptions of older adults, is the key to preparing for an aging society. The objective of this integrative review for nurses was to synthesize information from academic literature to provide insight into the experience and perception of well-being and happiness in older adults. The authors searched 5 databases - CINAHL, PUBMED, CLINICAL KEY, SCOPUS and SAGE journals - using the following key search terms: “(experience or perception or perspectives), AND (happiness or well-being), AND (older adults or elderly or late adulthood).” Only articles published between January 2010 and April 2020 were considered. The preferred reporting items for the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal tools were adopted for quality assessment. The authors finally selected 12 out of 651 references for integrative review. The results show that the key points of view associated with the well-being and happiness of older people consist of 3 important issues. The first issue includes the challenges and concerns about late life involving independence, life quality, fear of squandering free time, being left out, and having a good death. Second are the strategies for living a meaningful late life through doing regular daily activities, creating self-esteem, finding life satisfaction, engaging in subjectively perceived activities, being optimistic, relying on religious attachment, and setting life goals. The last issue includes resources and support for older adults to reach their goals, which are family support, social support, and religious support. A challenge for future research is how to create interventions that promote the independence that leads to freedom in late life.

Teacher Well-Being and Perceived School Climate during COVID-19 School Closure: The Case of Physical Education in Switzerland

School closure and distance learning during the COVID-19 lockdown had the potential to affect teachers’ perception of their well-being and of the school climate. Within the teaching community, physical education (PE) teachers particularly redesigned their activities during school closures, posing both opportunities and threats. The study aim was to contribute to the understanding of the teachers’ well-being experiences (burnout and engagement) and school climate perceptions during the lockdown for PE teachers in comparison with those of teachers of other subjects. The results from 188 teacher questionnaire responses revealed better psychological experiences among PE teachers in 2020 compared to those in a traditional year and compared to those of teachers of other subjects. School closure was related to higher collaboration, vigor scores and lower levels of physical fatigue for PE teachers. These positive effects for the PE teachers suggest using some profits of the COVID-19 period in normal teaching conditions

Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic

The declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March, 2020, and the disaster management regulations implemented in reply to it had enormous ramifications on ethnographic fieldwork. This situation presented an opportunity to reconsider the methodology used in a research project on lived experiences of childhood health and well-being in Free State province, South Africa. This study explores the argument that technology can establish a virtual space that fieldworker and research participant can treat as “real.” It uses fieldwork diaries and insights to evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of telephonic virtual conversations as a replacement for conventional face-to-face fieldwork to access inaccessible fieldwork sites. It adopts a reflexive qualitative case-study approach to document the experiences of two fieldworkers moving from on-site fieldwork to telephone voice calls to conduct their research. By offering a reflexive account of these technology-mediated fieldwork experiences, this article proposes this methodology as possible alternative to documenting lived experience. Lessons from this experience can contribute to reviewing the traditional practice of ethnographic fieldwork and imagining alternative and complementary methodological possibilities.

Well-Being After Severe Brain Injury: What Counts as Good Recovery?

Disorders of consciousness (DOC) continue to profoundly challenge both families and medical professionals. Once a brain-injured patient has been stabilized, questions turn to the prospect of recovery. However, what "recovery" means in the context of patients with prolonged DOC is not always clear. Failure to recognize potential differences of interpretation-and the assumptions about the relationship between health and well-being that underlie these differences-can inhibit communication between surrogate decisionmakers and a patient's clinical team, and make it difficult to establish the goals of care. The authors examine the relationship between health and well-being as it pertains to patients with prolonged DOC. They argue that changes in awareness or other function should not be equated to changes in well-being, in the absence of a clear understanding of the constituents of well-being for that particular patient. The authors further maintain that a comprehensive conception of recovery for patients with prolonged DOC should incorporate aspects of both experienced well-being and evaluative well-being.

Families with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Exploring adoptive parents’ experiences of family well-being

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is the leading non-genetic cause of developmental disability in Canada. It poses many challenges at the individual, family and societal levels. This study explores adoptive parents’ experiences of having a child with FASD in their family and how these experiences impact family well-being and, specifically, parenting, family dynamics, sources of support and coping strategies. Using an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight adoptive parents of children with FASD. Four main themes emerged, each with several subthemes: (1) managing individuals with FASD; (2) navigating family cohesion; (3) psychological warfare; and (4) experiences of supports. Findings showed how FASD affects all aspects of family life and has a constant and cumulative effect on the family’s well-being. Hope, community and parents feeling successful in their efforts were found to have strong connections to well-being.

Correlation between the individual’s experience of well-being and social evaluation

Aim. The aim of this paper is to define the correlation between social evaluation and personal well-being. Methods. The study involved the citizens of Chernihiv (average age – 31.5 years old): 91 people in total, 37 men and 54 women. The following methods were used: the scale of satisfaction with life scale by Diener, as adapted by Leontiev and Osin (2008); questionnaire of parameters of subjective social well-being by Danylchenko (2015); subjective life satisfaction scale by Lybyna (2008), questionnaire on the peculiarities of evaluation by other people by Danylchenko (2019). Results and conclusion. In Ukrainian society, the most important reference groups are parents and a spouse, while friends and colleagues play a comparatively smaller role. All these groups are more likely to give positive and neutral social evaluations. However, negative evaluations are more likely to come from colleagues and friends, and positive – from family. There are differences in indicators of subjective well-being, social acceptance (as a measure of social well-being) and competence between people who are assessed predominantly positively and predominantly negatively. Subjective well-being is reduced reproaches from reference groups. Praise contributes to the enhancement of subjective social well-being Comparison with other people and the existence of a role model reduces psychological well-being. The filter for the perception of positive and negative evaluations from the social environment is a person’s self-acceptance.

Emotionally engaged or feeling anxious and cynical? School experiences and links to school achievement among Finland-Swedish general and special education students

The aim of the study was to enhance understanding of how seventh graders vary in emotional engagement and experienced well-being at school in terms of anxiety and cynicism. The two profiles were explored, and comparisons were made between students in general education and those in special education. The study participants comprised 119 Finland–Swedish students from five secondary schools. Four emotional-engagement and well-being profiles were identified based on cluster analysis. The students with the most typical profile were moderately engaged in teacher-student interaction and emotionally highly engaged in peer interaction, combined with a low risk of anxiety and cynicism. The profiles showed no statistically significant differences regarding gender and school achievement. However, there were differences between students in special education and those in general education. In Finland, Swedish –speaking Finns are a language minority group. Swedish has official language status in Finland. Compared to many other language minority groups they can be considered somewhat exceptional, since according to many welfare indicators they tend to do better than the general population. There are a few studies on differences between Swedish and Finnish– speaking students’ school experiences in Finland, however, so far studies exploring Swedish- speaking general and special education students’ emotional engagement and study well-being in terms of anxiety and cynicism have been scarce.

Postgraduate research students’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and student-led policy solutions

ABSTRACT In response to the rapidly deteriorating pandemic situation, a national lockdown was imposed in March 2020 which had profound effects for students across the UK higher education sector. Given their precarious and isolated position in UK higher education, understanding how the pandemic has affected postgraduate research (PGR) students, relating to their mental wellbeing, social lives, and study experiences is very timely. This article explores the experiences of PGR students during the COVID-19 pandemic and potential policy solutions, drawing on a national online survey on the “Impact of COVID-19 on Doctoral and Early Career Researchers” (N = 3,432), and qualitative data collected from students during the initiation of public lockdown in the United Kingdom (N = 882). Specifically, this article investigates student experiences in five indicators using multilevel modelling: (1) mental wellbeing, (2) loneliness, (3) access to research resources, (4) social connection, and (5) training availability. Primary qualitative data is then used to draw policy solutions from students, who were offered an opportunity to suggest how they might best be supported during the pandemic. In doing so, student-led policy suggestions at both national and institutional levels are provided drawing on the lived experiences and voice of PGR students. The findings demonstrate the need for generalised and specific support combining financial assistance, mental health and pastoral support, communication, and academic study support.

Developing Patient-Reported Outcome Measures that Can Improve Kidney Care.

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have become a hot topic over the last decade. The health care community has realized the importance of patients’ perspectives of their care. Putting measures in place to assess patients’ experience of well-being is a step forward. Making sure patients

Daily experiences of subjective age discordance and well-being.

Subjective age discordance (SAD) captures the difference between how old one feels and how old one would ideally like to be. We investigated the presence, strength, and fluctuation of this discordance in daily life as well as its relationship to various indicators of physical and psychological well-being with an 8-day diary study. Participants were 116 older and 107 younger adults who completed daily measures of felt age, ideal age, positive and negative affect, physical symptoms, and stressors. We operationalized SAD as felt age minus ideal age divided by chronological age and compared the utility of this discordance to the more established proportional discrepancy of felt age from chronological age. Daily SAD was present in both age groups, such that individuals idealized younger ages than they felt. This discordance was larger in older than younger adults, although younger adults exhibited more daily fluctuations in SAD. Within-person increases in SAD were associated with lower positive affect, whereas larger SAD at the between-person level was associated with more physical symptoms and stressors. These relationships were over and above the associations of felt and chronological age with the outcomes suggesting the utility of daily SAD for understanding daily physical and psychological well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

High Five: creating compassion and mental wellbeing in young people in Scotland and Brazil

High Five is an innovative programme developed by CI health and education partners, based on “Five ways to wellbeing’’ published by the New Economics Foundation. It presents simple messages about self esteem, self compassion, kindness and wellbeing and prepares children and young people to talk about challenging topics such as death and dying, bereavement or loss. For high school and college students it also explores issues of sexuality, bullying, self harm and suicide prevention. Aims are to nurture empathy, create compassionate communities in schools and develop a cohort of young compassionate citizens as future community leaders.Inverclyde population is 80,000 with high levels of poverty, unemployment, alcohol misuse, drug addiction and poor mental health. Programme partners are health, education, social care and Third sector.Developed during 2016, it has been adapted for different educational stages. It is now in all Inverclyde primary schools and has been delivered to around 200 high school or college students. In the pilot, college students demonstrated significant improvement in Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale scores (WEMWBS). They found photo sharing an excellent reflective tool and set up a wellbeing Facebook page. During 2017, High Five was adapted for children age 6 using creativity and fun to learn about wellbeing. Now adapted for age 14 – 17, the programme has seen an increase in young people volunteering and participating in intergenerational befriending. Other successes include some young people with emotional support needs who re-engaged in school.The lesson plan and packs developed frame High Five in the mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing experience and outcomes of the school curriculum. This has enabled the programme to be embedded in all Inverclyde primary schools. The High Five programme was introduced to 3 high schools in Sao Sebastiao, Litoral Norte, Sao Paulo state, Brazil through the Transforming Together project. For ‘Yellow September’ all 10 high schools are taking part in a joint health and education campaign to raise awareness about suicide prevention. From 2020, pupils from schools in Scotland and Litoral Norte will link by zoom to exchange insights about mental health and wellbeing, make new friendships, and discover new possibilities for their future.High Five is evidence based, effective and can be readily adapted across age ranges and life stages. This integrated approach across health, social care and education is improving wellbeing and building social capital and kindness. The programme is being embedded in schools in Inverclyde and embraced by schools in Sao Paulo. Short term impacts on wellbeing and increasing volunteering are matched by longer term gains from inspiring a new generation of compassionate citizens.High Five is an effective integrated approach to create wellbeing and resilience in communities with challenging socio-economic profiles across the globe. Embraced equally by young people in Scotland and in Brazil, it is a powerful and transferable tool to enhance mental wellbeing and improve population health.

REFLECTION AS A COGNITIVE COMPONENT OF THE SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF STAFF OF EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

The article highlights the features of reflection as a cognitive component of the subjective well-being of the staff of educational organizations. The essence and problems of subjective well-being are analysed, connecting it with happiness, life satisfaction, psychological well-being, actual and ideal psychological well-being, etc. It has been found that subjective well-being is more characterized by changing emotional experiences in time and context, i.e. it depends on psychological well-being, which is based on the development of more stable skills and abilities. Psychological well-being is stronger and longer-lasting than subjective well-being because it affects skills, values, and so on. The results of the study of reflection as a cognitive component of the subjective well-being of the staff of educational organizations include: experiencing the content and value of life, a sense of self-satisfaction and with life, achieving current motives, needs throughout life, positively assessing their existence, given the changing nowadays conditions. The study involved 103 people from educational organizations from different regions of Ukraine, which were divided by gender, age, place of residence, etc. Impressively low results were found both on the scales of psychological well-being of the respondents (positive attitudes, environmental management, and self-acceptance) and their experience of psychological well-being in general, in almost half of the respondents. It was found that the majority of the studied staff of educational organizations is characterised by an average level of reflection. At the same time, with increasing level of reflexivity, indicators of psychological well-being generally decrease (p ≤ 0.01), i.e. the higher the level of intellectual and emotional activity, which requires an understanding of the experience of the staff of educational organizations, to get a holistic view of optimal ways and methods of educational activities, nevertheless, educators feel psychologically safe. Statistically significant ages, gender, demographic and occupational differences in achieving psychological well-being depending on the level of their reflection were revealed.

A study protocol of the photo-supported conversations about the well-being intervention (Be Well\u2122) for people with stress related disorders

BackgroundStress-related illnesses constitute a huge problem in society. The primary care services in Sweden form the first line of care whose role is to coordinate interventions for reducing symptoms, as well as health-promoting interventions. There is lack of knowledge concerning health-promoting interventions for these illnesses. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether photo-supported conversations about well-being (Be Well™) as an intervention, in addition to care as usual within the primary care services, improves health and well-being for patients with stress-related illnesses. The intervention will be compared to a control group, who receive care as usual. A further aim is to conduct a process evaluation.Methods/DesignThis ongoing project has a quasi-experimental design, using quantitative and qualitative methods, and includes patients from primary care centres in two Swedish counties. Seventy patients, 20–67 years, with stress-related illnesses will be recruited. They constitute an intervention group, which receive the intervention together with care as usual, and a control group, which receive care as usual. The intervention, photo-supported conversations about well-being, involves 12 sessions. Care as usual entails medication, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and/or psychotherapy. Data collection is carried out at baseline, and outcomes are assessed directly after the intervention, as well as six months after completion of the intervention. The outcomes are evaluated based on factors related to health, well-being and everyday occupations. Furthermore, data concerning experiences of well-being and perceptions of the intervention will be collected in interviews. The therapists will also be interviewed about their experiences of performing the intervention. Data will be analysed with non-parametric statistics, and qualitative methodology.DiscussionThe project is based on the concept that focusing on well-being despite living with stress-related illness may positively impact health and well-being as well as activity-related aspects, and that photo-supported conversations about well-being can contribute a complement to other treatment and rehabilitation. A strength is the use of a wide range of methods: such as quantitative measures, photographs, and qualitative interviews with participants and therapists. The results will thus provide knowledge about potential effects of this health-promoting intervention.Trial registration Clinical Trials.gov: NCT04832295; retrospectively registered 2nd April 2021 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04832295

Learning and Well-Being in Educational Practices with Children and Adolescents Undergoing Cancer Treatment

The use of information communication technologies (ICT) in education brings up new possibilities of promoting learning and health experiences. In this sense, education contexts of the 21st century must consider these two areas of knowledge, especially their integration. This article presents learning practices developed with mobile devices and games in order to improve learning and well-being in children and adolescents undergoing cancer treatment in a non-formal educational setting. The methodology is based on qualitative case studies with content-based data analyses, involving informal interviews and observation methods. The study considers data from five patients who participated in the research between 2015 and 2019. The results demonstrate a positive influence of the practices with mobile technologies and games in terms of learning and in the well-being experience of patients during the treatment.

A systematic review of the qualitative literature on older individuals' experiences of care and well-being during physical rehabilitation for acquired brain injury.

AimsTo acquire an in‐depth understanding of how older individuals diagnosed with acquired brain injury (ABI) experience their well‐being and care when undergoing physical rehabilitation.DesignSystematic literature review.Data sourcesThe electronic databases of PubMed, CINAHL, APA PsycInfo, ASSIA and SCOPUS were searched from 2005 to 2020. Extensive reference checking was also conducted.Review methodsA systematic review was conducted following PRISMA guidelines, including predominantly qualitative studies. Studies’ quality was appraised using the critical apraisal skills programme (CASP) tool.ResultsSeventeen studies met the inclusion criteria. Following methods of thematic synthesis, four overarching interpretive themes were identified: (a) Rehabilitation processes and their impact on older individuals’ well‐being; (b) Identity and embodiment concerns of older individuals during rehabilitation; (c) Institutional factors affecting older individuals’ care and well‐being experiences; and (d) Older individuals’ participation in creative activities as part of rehabilitation.ConclusionOrganizational and structural care deficiencies as well as health disparities can adversely impact older individuals’ autonomous decision‐making and goal‐setting potentials. The discrepancy between older individuals’ expectations and the reality of returning home along with the illusionary wish to return to a perceived normality, can further negatively affect older individuals’ sense of well‐being. Constructive communication, emotional support, family involvement in rehabilitation and creating a stimulating, enriching social environment can humanize and facilitate older individuals’ adjustment to their new reality following ABI.ImpactThere is a lack of qualitative research on older individuals’ ABI rehabilitation experiences, especially traumatic brain injury incidents. Further study should consider patients’ concerns over their involvement in decision‐making and goal setting about their care. Overall, this review reveals the need to examine further the significance of humanizing care and the factors that affect older individuals’ sense of well‐being.

Volunteering Experience among Older Adults with End-stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

ABSTRACT Living with End-stage Renal Disease (ESRD) can be stressful and associated with long-term psychological effects on older adults, especially when they have to undergo a lifetime treatment. Previous studies have documented numerous positive effects of volunteering as a potential intervention on health and well-being among older adults. However, there is limited understanding of the experience of older adults in volunteering while having ESRD. This study aimed to explore the experience often older adults with ESRD volunteering while battling with their illness. Several themes emerged from the data analysis regarding the experience of volunteerism among the older adult ESRD patients. The themes are pre-volunteerism experience, enriching and inspiring experience, volunteering experience as sources of support system, improvement of health and wellbeing experience, experience in discovering meaning in life, experience in repaying the good deed, and challenges in volunteerism participation. This study contributes to the literature and practices through the illumination of innovative intervention through volunteering for older adults with ESRD.