This protocol is for a single-blind, parallel group randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of a five-day residential workshop focusing on the use of character-strengths and subsequent 8- to 10-week remote telephonic coaching (weekly) to individually support ASHAs to improve their wellbeing, against routine health system support. The arms...

This report draws from from a review of journalism support organization offerings, including interviews with leaders at such organizations; direct experience organizing news leader and non-news expert interactions; and surveys with news leaders and interviews with non-news participants. It illuminates what strikes journalists about depolarization/bridging difference specifically; and what strikes researchers who have engaged with journalists.

Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden of HIV, with comorbid mental conditions highly prevalent in people living with HIV. It is important to evaluate the mental health of adolescents and young adults living with HIV (AYALHIV) comprehensively by measuring both negative and positive psychological constructs. There has been a proliferation of interest in positive psychological outcome measures, but the evidence of their psychometric robustness is fragmented. This review sought to: 1) Identify positive psychological outcomes and corresponding outcome measures used in AYALHIV in sub-Saharan Africa. 2) Critically appraise the psychometrics of the identified outcome measures.

Although prior research documents the importance of belief in God (e.g., for health and wellbeing), most of the research has focused on Western samples. Much less is known about how belief in one God, multiple gods, or spiritual forces differs across cultures and demographic groups within those cultures...

Cigarette use, a leading cause of preventable disease and millions of deaths worldwide each year, is not often studied separately from other tobacco use, and global data and previous studies on cigarette smoking are based mostly on its prevalence rather than quantity. To address these oversights, we analyze the first wave of data from Global Flourishing Study...

Prior research documents strong associations between higher educational attainment and improved health and wellbeing outcomes. Studies on educational differences, such as those conducted by OECD and UNESCO, have focused on national trends...