NDLI: MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Newson, Jennifer Jane Sukhoi, Oleksii Thiagarajan, Tara C.
Abstract	Background According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health is ‘a state of wellbeing in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community’. Any population metric of mental health and wellbeing should therefore not only reflect the presence or absence of mental challenges but also a person’s broad mental capacity and functioning across a range of cognitive, social, emotional and physical dimensions. However, while existing metrics of mental health typically emphasize ill health, existing metrics of wellbeing typically focus on happiness or life satisfaction, indirectly infer wellbeing from a selection of social and economic factors, or do not reflect a read out of the full spectrum of mental functioning that impacts people’s everyday life and that spans the continuum from distress and the inability to function, through to the ability to function to one’s full potential. Methods We present the Mental Health Quotient, or MHQ, a population metric of mental wellbeing that comprehensively captures mental functioning, and examine how it relates to functional productivity. We describe the 47-item assessment and the life impact rating scale on which the MHQ metric is based, as well as the rationale behind each step of the nonlinear algorithm used to construct the MHQ metric. Results We demonstrate a linear relationship between the MHQ metric and productive life function where movement on the scale from any point or in any direction relates to an equivalent shift in productive ability at the population level, a relationship that is not borne out using simple sum scores. We further show that this relationship is the same across all age groups. Finally, we demonstrate the potential for the types of insights arising from the MHQ metric, offering examples from the Global Mind Project, an initiative that aims to track and understand our evolving mental wellbeing, and since 2020 has collected responses from over 1 million individuals across 140 + countries. Conclusion The MHQ is a metric of mental wellbeing that aligns with the WHO definition and is amenable to large scale population monitoring.
Related Links	https://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12963-024-00336-y.pdf
Ending Page	14
Page Count	14
Starting Page	1
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	14787954
DOI	10.1186/s12963-024-00336-y
Journal	Population Health Metrics
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	22
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2024-07-17
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Epidemiology Research Methodology Health Services Research Mental wellbeing Population health Mental health Psychiatry MHQ Metric Assessment Productivity Global mind project
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Epidemiology
Journal Impact Factor	3.2/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.3/2023

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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