Cultural and Social exposure

Non Intervention (Control Group)

The intervention protocol will consist of 24 months of guided exposure and participation in social and cultural activities undertaken in the "Casa del Popolo". The participant will be asked to register for a specific type of event (fine arts, performing arts, and social and volunteering activities), duration and date in order that this information can be supplied for further evaluation. Control group participants will be asked to carry on their lives normally and maintain regular cultural and social activity throughout the duration of the study. At twelve months from the beginning of the observation participants of both groups will be checked (intermediate phase).

This is a self-administrated test with 22 items that assesses the subjective perception of psychological well-being. It has been divided into 6 categories: anxiety, depression, self-control, positivity, well-being, and health and vitality

This is a self-administered form and represents the short version (14 items) of the Mental Health Continuum - Long Form MHC-LF (12), the original forty-item instrument. As for the long form, the short one has been designed to measure emotional, psychological and social well-being described by the two-continuum model of positive health (10). Within this framework, participants can be identified as flourishing, languishing or enjoying moderate mental health; in other words the aim is to assess positive or negative mental health as a function of emotional, psychological, and social well-being