Wellbeing can be defined as multidimensional and incredibly complex, affected by many different factors according to an individual’s experience. Understanding the social and emotional wellbeing of adolescents is important to help support their development and transition to adulthood smoothly. Project based learning has the potential to increase social and emotional wellbeing in students and hav...

World Health Organization (WHO) defines health not only as “the absence of disease and infirmity; but as a complete well-being on physical, mental and social aspects”. Mental health studies have approached mental health as the absence of psychiatric diseases such as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Nowadays, this approach became insufficient and mental health was attempted to be explaine...

OBJECTIVE To assess the health related quality of life and psychological wellbeing of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, and relate these to clinical variables and psychological adjustment. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey of 99 adult patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, selected at random from a larger database (60.6% response rate). Assessments included the short form 36 (SF-36) healt...

BACKGROUND This study examines the association between active transport and perceived general health, perceived psychological wellbeing and a healthy body weight in the Netherlands. METHODS Data were collected by an online questionnaire (N = 3663) in the Netherlands. Data collection was conducted over a period of one calendar year starting July 2012. Logistic regression analyses were used to ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether thyroxine treatment is effective in patients with symptoms of hypothyroidism but with thyroid function tests within the reference range, and to investigate the effect of thyroxine treatment on psychological and physical wellbeing in healthy participants. DESIGN Randomised double blind placebo controlled crossover trial. SETTING Outpatient clinic in a general ...