The emoji current mood and experience scale: the development and initial validation of an ultra-brief, literacy independent measure of psychological health.

Background: There is increasing interest in measuring wellbeing and mental health in a range of settings and services outside conventional mental health care settings. However, ensuring that measurement does not intrude on the primary service activity whilst promoting inclusion through minimizing literacy demands, requires ultra-brief and easy to use tools.

Aims: To develop and test a brief emoji-based tool to assess mental health, wellbeing, resilience and community connection.

Using engagement in sustainable construction to improve mental health and social connection in disadvantaged and hard to reach groups: a new green care approach.

The positive impact of the outdoors on physical and mental health is increasingly being evidenced. However, the impact on vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals engaging in group based sustainable building construction has not been examined. To provide the first pragmatic examination of the impact of engaging in a brief (8 days over 8 weeks) outdoor sustainable construction project on the mental health and social connectedness of hard to reach and disadvantaged groups.