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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
ASIST
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training.
Average mental wellbeing
One of 3 classifications of mental wellbeing (the others are: good mental wellbeing and poor mental wellbeing) derived from responses to the WEMWBS section of the questionnaire. A respondent with an average mental wellbeing is one whose WEMWBS score is within one standard deviation of the mean.
CAPI
Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing - the use of computer hardware to administer surveys rather than pen and paper questionnaires
CASI
Computer Assisted Self Interviewing - sections of a questionnaire set out for self-completion by the respondent
GHQ12
General Health Questionnaire. A well-established screening instrument designed to detect possible psychiatric morbidity in the general population. Respondents are asked to respond to 12 questions relating to their recent experience of particular feelings (eg happiness, depression, anxiety, self-confidence and stress)
Good mental wellbeing
One of 3 classifications of mental wellbeing (the others are: average mental wellbeing and poor mental wellbeing) derived from responses to the WEMWBS section of the questionnaire. A respondent with good mental wellbeing is one whose WEMWBS score is over one standard deviation above the mean.
High mental ill-health score
One of 2 classifications of mental health (the other is low mental ill-health score) derived from the GHQ12 section of the survey. Respondents with a high mental ill-health score are those who score 4 or over for the GHQ12 and who are thus defined as displaying signs of possible psychiatric disorder.
Low mental ill-health score
One of 2 classification of mental health (the other is high mental ill-health score) derived from the GHQ12 section of the survey. Respondents with a low mental ill-health score are those who score 0-3 for the GHQ12 and who are thus defined as displaying no or few signs of possible psychiatric disorder.
Poor mental wellbeing
This is 1 of 3 classifications of mental wellbeing (the others are: good mental wellbeing and average mental wellbeing) derived from responses to WEMWBS. A respondents with poor mental wellbeing is one whose score on WEMWBS is more than one standard deviation below the mean.
SIMD
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. This is the Scottish Executive's official tool for identifying small area concentrations of deprivation across all of Scotland and is relevant to policies aimed at tackling the causes and effects of interacting factors. The SIMD provides a relative ranking of 6,505 small areas (data zones) across Scotland from the most deprived (ranked one) to the least deprived in Scotland (ranked 6,505). SIMD is based on 31 indicators in the six domains of current income, employment, housing, health, education, skills and training, and geographic access to services and telecommunications.
Standard deviation
The average amount of variation around the mean for a given set of survey findings. The most commonly used measure of the spread of scores
WEMWBS
Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale. This has been developed as a tool for measuring positive mental wellbeing at a population level. The scale comprises 14 separate statements describing feelings related to mental wellbeing; respondents are asked to indicate how often they have felt such feelings over the last two weeks. WEMWBS is intended to complement standard scales which measure ill-health and mental ill-health.
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