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Mental health declined? As in, worsened? This sounds wrong.
by 00117 3y ago
Mental health declined? As in, worsened? This sounds wrong.
- 2023throwawayy 3y ago> However, researchers did report that all participants showed declines in overall mental health. Sounds like it's accurate. Living in a capitalist hellscape will do that to you.
- paulddraper 3y agoAnd yet somehow still better than a communist utopia
- deprecative 3y agoIs it, though?
- paulddraper 3y agoIt is
- 2023throwawayy 3y agoWhat a well thought out and convincing argument! Thanks for engaging in good faith. /s
- dventimi 3y agoMental health declining over time for people experiencing extreme economic hardship sounds morally wrong to me, but unfortunately, it also sounds very plausible.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoBut does it decline relative to a control? I would expect the mental health of the homeless who don't receive the cash to decline, so perhaps the cash lessens or doesn't affect the decline.
- jldugger 3y agohttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZKabj-/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZ... has the source report. > Participants were asked to rate their mental health on a scale of 0 to 10... average the full sample of participants reported a mental health score of 6.12. [...] In addition, participants took the 10-Question Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (Kessler et al., 2002). Participants were asked ten questions rating how often they experience specific feelings related to distress on a scale from 1 to 5. > Table 16 describes paired sample t-tests of the participants who completed the enrollment survey and six-month follow-up survey. While participants from none of the groups showed statistically significant changes, This should probably have been a period and end of paragraph instead of a comma.