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Place, social capital, and mental health: A mixed-methods case study of a community-based intervention.
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Place, social capital, and mental health: A mixed-methods case study of a community-based intervention.

  • Ehsan A Life Course and Inequality Research Centre, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Mouline, Bâtiment Géopolis, CH, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research LIVES: Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives, University of Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Mouline, Bâtiment Géopolis, CH, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: annahita.ehsan@unil.ch.
  • Spini D Life Course and Inequality Research Centre, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Mouline, Bâtiment Géopolis, CH, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research LIVES: Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives, University of Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Mouline, Bâtiment Géopolis, CH, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 2020-08-06
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  • Health & place. - 2020
Geography, Planning and Development
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health(social science)
English 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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