Place,social capital,and mental health: A mixed-methods case study of a community-based intervention |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Lund University, Social Medicine and Global Health, Malmö, Sweden;2. CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasilia, DF, Brazil;1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom;4. NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;5. Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom;6. School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;1. Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;2. School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China |
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| Abstract: | This study collaborated with the “Neighbourhoods in Solidarity” (NS) action research intervention to understand place, social capital, and mental health for older adults in one Swiss town. It used a longitudinal mixed-methods design, combing a pre/post survey with ethnographic observations. It found that place was a recurring theme throughout the NS intervention and how the NS were able to build social capital. Older adults who participated in the NS experienced an increase in structural social capital, but many participants already had high levels of structural social capital before the intervention. Participants did not experience a significant change in cognitive social capital, but this may have been due to a general decline in cognitive social capital in the area. Neither changes in cognitive nor structural social capital predicted depressive symptoms after one year. |
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