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So if we then go on to look at
how WEMWBS has been used since that time,
we have been pretty much inundated
with requests to use WEMWBS,
and we have done our best to keep a database,
but we haven't really had any resource to do this,
so it's not been perfect.
But we've had at least 250 inquiries
and we've got about 180
that we've captured a reasonable amount of data about.
They've come from the British Isles, as you might expect,
from up here and England and Wales and Scotland.
But they've also, we've had really a lot of inquiries internationally,
and some of those from English-speaking countries
where you might expect that the measure
would work reasonably well just like that.
But we've also had rather a lot from countries that don't speak English,
some of which have similar cultures to ours
and some of which have really rather different cultures.
So we'll come back to that in a moment,
but that just gives you an idea of where the requests have come from.
And we will be talking about SWEMWBS,
the shortened version, a bit this afternoon,
but this is just to show you the great majority of requests
have been for WEMWBS, the 14-item version,
rather than SWEMWBS, the seven-item version.
And this gives you some idea.
The numbers, the base numbers, are changing a bit here,
you'll see up here.
But I'm just giving you a flavour of those we have data for.
A lot coming from the voluntary sector.
Quite a lot from government agencies and the NHS and local authorities.
And then here we've got, this is research
and this is specific surveys.
So a spread.
And if we look at what are people using it for,
well, it is being, I am giving permission to people
to use it in randomised controlled trials.
As far as I know, none of those who have put it
in their grant applications have yet been funded,
apart from the one that I'm doing,
which is a parenting programme in South Wales.
But we will there be able to look at sensitivity to change
round a programme which we strongly suspect
does have a positive impact on adults' wellbeing.
And it's also being used in longitudinal studies,
so it went into the National Child Development Study,
their 2008 data sweep.
And the seven-item version has gone into what used to be
the British Household Panel Study
but is now called Understanding Populations.
So these are going to be very rich
in terms of looking at the determinants
and looking at also what mental wellbeing
does determine in the future,
so how well it predicts your future health.
But we have to wait a little bit for that data to come on stream.
And then there are a very, very large number
of before and after evaluations that it's being used in.
I've put up some examples there.
This shows you the age group.
Actually, Hendy, who did this for me, I said to him, you know,
"What is the difference between children and teenagers
when children are 13 plus?"
So, actually, there isn't really much difference between those two groups.
But you can see the great majority are adults of working age.
It has been used amongst the elderly.
The original validation was in people up to 75.
We haven't specifically looked at how well it works in the elderly
and I do think there's a need to do that.
So here are some of the exact examples
of the sort of things people have put it into.
Various staff health needs assessments,
various wellbeing initiatives, physical activity.
The vets have done a very large survey.
It's going into PhDs.
And...
Yeah, music, creative arts,
lots of those kind of initiatives at community level.
So this is a list of the surveys it's being used in,
and in Scotland it's gone into the Scottish Health Survey
and indeed it's now one of the government's indicators of health,
which is perfectly splendid.
It was in the Health Education Population Survey,
and there's three data sweeps with it in there,
and the Well Survey which has been going on since 2006.
And it's also been used in a big population survey in Grampian.
In England, the SWEMWBS was used
in a very big survey in the Northwest,
and I'll show you a little bit more of that this afternoon.
We've used it in the Coventry Household Survey,
the Coventry Health Survey,
and it's gone into the Health Survey for England.
We haven't got data on that yet, but the other ones are through.
It also went in the British Social Attitudes Survey.
I'm sorry. I've put that in England.
Of course it covers Scotland as well.
And the UK vets will also, they'll be some of those in Scotland, I expect.
And there was a big data set in Sheffield
where it was used as part of validation
of a postnatal health instrument,
so on mothers and fathers postnatally.
And I don't know what Iceland's doing there.
I don't know what the afternoon was doing up here either, but...
I noticed that on the train this morning.
If we look at the number of participants,
there are some data sets with quite large numbers and... up here,
but the vast majority are, you know, less than 50.
Very small numbers that people are unlikely to get much change out of
just because of the statistical power.
This bar chart shows
the number of times people have requested to use it, so...
And this is SWEMWBS here in the green, so fewer of those.
But this is people who just want to use it once.
These are people who are going to use it before and after,
and then three and four and five and six times.
Now, we will be going back to this group
to see how much data we can glean
to look at how well the measure's changing,
the measure is responding to change.
So, just to close and bring the session to an end,
it is important to measure mental wellbeing.
I mean, I imagine you're all here because you believe that
and so I'm talking to the converted.
But it still has to be said.
WEMWBS seems to do the business.
It's good enough for purpose
and it is, it's fulfilling an important need nationally
and increasingly internationally.
As we gather experience from the results of the use
and from consideration of mental wellbeing
and what it involves more generally,
we will continue to learn about mental wellbeing.
And in due course we may well want to supersede WEMWBS
with something else,
but for the moment it seems to be the best that we've got on offer.
Thank you very much.
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