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	For anyone who wants to use a Social Network Health approach to improve the health of their community, this toolkit will provide the essential theory, which should be understood first, and basic implementation information to provide enough of the scope and precautionary information to evaluate training materials.		For anyone who wants to use a Social Network Health approach to improve the health of their community, this toolkit will provide the essential theory, which should be understood first, and basic implementation information to provide enough of the scope and precautionary information to evaluate training materials.

	Use the major sections below to navigate, and please read through the context section below if you are ever in doubt of the context of this toolkit. ~~[https://groups.google.com/a/socialnetwork.health/g/discuss/ We are easy to reach via our discussion list.].~~ If you would like to join the effort to make this an excellent resource for education in Social Network Health, contact us at ~~that discussion list first~~ - ~~requests to become editors require a face-to-face chat~~.		Use the major sections below to navigate, and please read through the context section below if you are ever in doubt of the context of this toolkit. If you would like to join the effort to make this an excellent resource for education in Social Network Health, contact us at admin@socialnetwork.health - we will have one or more video chats before we accept an editor.

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	This wiki is under early beta development and ~~many~~ pages are placeholders or test data - ~~when~~ this wiki is further ~~along~~, we will ~~send a message to the [https://groups.google.com/a/socialnetwork.health/g/discuss discussion mailing list for~~ this ~~project]. You can also email the [[Special:EmailUser/Admin\|admins]] directly~~.		This wiki is under early beta development and some pages are still placeholders or test data - after this wiki has been developed and reviewed further, we will update this banner and seek wider review.
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Toolkit.Socialnetwork.Health:About

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We thought this would be written largely by Tim McGowan, but none of this was written by Tim - he never edited it once - and none of it will use Tims writing, so the copyright restriction we anticipated earlier was not a valid assumption, and we'll be far less restrictive as we made this.

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	~~All materials herein are Copyright Tim McGowan 2024.~~ We release this entire toolkit under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en creative commons attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license] only. As much as we would like to allow derivatives, the precautionary language on the Social Network Health site, and all mental health resources, is critical to maintain in it’s precise form. We will be looking into less restrictive licenses in the future.		We release this entire toolkit under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en creative commons attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license] only. As much as we would like to allow derivatives, the precautionary language on the Social Network Health site, and all mental health resources, is critical to maintain in it’s precise form. We will be looking into less restrictive licenses in the future.

	For more information about this project, or to contact us, [https://socialnetwork.health please see our main website at https://socialnetwork.health].		For more information about this project, or to contact us, [https://socialnetwork.health please see our main website at https://socialnetwork.health].

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	* [[Theory]] - The Key Findings in Social Network Health and their context. Start here to get oriented to the topic.		* [[Theory]] - The Key Findings in Social Network Health and their context. Start here to get oriented to the topic.
	* [[Practical Implementation]] - The fundamentals of practical implementation of a social network health approach.		* [[Practical Implementation]] - The fundamentals of practical implementation of a social network health approach.
	* [[Research Library]] - ~~'''TBD''' Primary~~ resources, seminal research, educational video explainers, and links to external resources.		* [[Research Library]] - Academic papers, primary resources, seminal research, educational video explainers, and links to external resources.
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	== Context ==		== Context ==

Research Library

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	~~We will list~~, ~~here~~, ~~the research references and videos that we have included throughout this Toolkit~~, ~~as we add them~~.		This page lists the research corpus behind the project. It is a reference library; some of these sources were used in writing the key findings, but the library is organised by author, not by finding, because a single paper can inform several findings.

	[https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67c7b452ac188191aa2fab75ce290cc4-social-network-health-researcher ~~In the meantime, you~~ can click here visit our AI Social Network Health Researcher, which has hundreds of research papers and articles on the topic.]		Peer-reviewed papers, by first-author surname:

			* [[Research Library A-E\|A to E]] (52 papers)
			* [[Research Library F-J\|F to J]] (29 papers)
			* [[Research Library K-O\|K to O]] (38 papers)
			* [[Research Library P-T\|P to T]] (43 papers)
			* [[Research Library U-Z\|U to Z]] (58 papers)

			* [[Research Library: Grey Literature]] Grey literature (41 sources)

			Total peer-reviewed papers: 222. Grey-literature sources: 41.

			[https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67c7b452ac188191aa2fab75ce290cc4-social-network-health-researcher You can click here visit our AI Social Network Health Researcher, which has hundreds of research papers and articles on the topic.]

	We are actively building a better replacement for this that will offer better tools and make it easier to maintain, so this is a bit neglected, but the situation will improve as fast as we can improve it. We have built [[Template:PDFCite\|a reference system to allow quotes within papers to be lined to directly without leaving this mediawiki]], and an uploader to populate a better page than this one. We're testing that and we'll have it here soon.		We are actively building a better replacement for this that will offer better tools and make it easier to maintain, so this is a bit neglected, but the situation will improve as fast as we can improve it. We have built [[Template:PDFCite\|a reference system to allow quotes within papers to be lined to directly without leaving this mediawiki]], and an uploader to populate a better page than this one. We're testing that and we'll have it here soon.

Research Library: Grey Literature

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== Research Library: Grey Literature ==
Non-peer-reviewed sources (blogs, news, vendor reports, community write-ups), alphabetical by title. Return to the [[Research Library]] index.

=== A Caution Regarding Rules of Thumb for Variance Inflation Factors (1980) ===
Eugene

Because of this, we examine these rules of thumb and find that threshold values of the VIF (and tolerance) need to be evaluated in the context of several other factors that influence the variance of regression coefficients. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== A Model for Understanding and Reducing Developer Burnout (2020) ===
Trinkenreich, Bianca; Stol, Klaas-Jan; Steinmacher, Igor; Gerosa, Marco A.; Sarma, Anita; Lara, Marcelo; Feathers, Michael; Ross, Nicholas; Bishop, Kevin

Burnt out can affect one's physical and mental health and has become a leading industry concern and can result in high workforce turnover. [draft]

Population: n=3281; software developers.

Keywords: remote-work, mental-health, burnout, wellbeing, job-satisfaction.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== A Snapshot of the Mental Health of Software Professionals (2021) ===
Almeida, Eduardo Santana de; Nunes, Ingrid Oliveira de; Oliveira, Raphael Pereira de; Carvalho, Michelle Larissa Luciano; Brunoni, Andre Russowsky; Rong, Shiyue

In this paper, we present the results of a survey with 500 software professionals. [draft]

Population: software developers.

Keywords: mental-health, burnout, isolation, productivity, open-source.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Beyond Culture (1977) ===
York, New; N.Y.; pp., .. ''Reviewed by Dee G. Appley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst''

It shows that some questions have been answered and others are enormously difficult even to approach. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: open-source.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Choking Under Pressure: Self-Consciousness and Paradoxical Effects of Incentives on Skillful Performance (1972) ===
Cleveland

Three studies showed that increased attention to one's own process of performance resulted in performance decrements. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: mental-health, productivity, open-source, collaboration.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Close Relationships, Family, and the Life Course (1998) ===
Home; Life, Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday

Review Reviewed Work(s): Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life by Christena E. [draft]

Population: n=72; students/adolescents.

Keywords: productivity, open-source.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, longitudinal. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem1 (2005) ===
[authors and venue to add]

Brian Uzzi Northwestern University Jarrett Spiro Stanford University Small world networks have received disproportionate notice in diverse fields because of their suspected effect on system dynamics. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: productivity, open-source, collaboration.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Common Method Biases in Behavioral Research: A Critical Review of the Literature and Recommended Remedies (2003) ===
Podsakoff, Philip M.; MacKenzie, Scott B.

MacKenzie, and Jeong-Yeon Lee Indiana University Nathan P. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: open-source.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Day (1994) - Review of Measurement Design and Analysis - An Integrated Approach (1994) ===
Review

Review Reviewed Work(s): Measurement, Design and Analysis: An Integrated Approach. by E. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: productivity, open-source.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Developmental epidemiological courses leading to antisocial personality disorder and violent and criminal behavior: Effects by young adulthood of a universal preventive intervention in first- and second-grade classrooms (2007) ===
Petras, Hanno; Kellamb, Sheppard G.; Brown, C. Hendricks; Muthen´, Bengt O.; Ialongo, Nicholas S.; Poduska, Jeanne M.

From first through seventh grade the developmental trajectories of 2311 students from 19 Baltimore City Public Schools were examined. [draft]

Population: n=2311; students/adolescents.

Keywords: mental-health.

Evidence: strong, empirical, rct. Risk of bias: low. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Dynamic wait-listed designs for randomized trials: new designs for prevention of youth suicide (2006) ===
Brown%, C Hendricks; Wymanb, Peter A; Guoa, Jing; Pehab, Juan

Purpose This paper examines new class of statistical designs where random assignment to intervention condition occurs at multiple times in a trial. [draft]

Population: mental-health study participants or policy target population.

Keywords: mental-health, open-source, suicide-prevention.

Evidence: strong, empirical, rct. Risk of bias: low. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Employee Motivation in Remote Work (2021) ===
Motivation, Intrinsic. ''Preface''

Self-determination theory (SDT) and self-efficacy were utilized as the main theoretical tools to examine the motivation of remote workers within the engineering industry along with inductive reasoning. [draft]

Population: remote workers.

Keywords: remote-work, burnout, productivity, open-source, collaboration.

Evidence: weak, empirical, qualitative. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Gladwin-AcademyManagementReview-1981 (1981) ===
[authors and venue to add]

Chapter 7 considers the implications of the results, especially with reference to antitrust issues. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: isolation, productivity, open-source.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, longitudinal. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== In-Group Bias in the Minimal Intergroup Situation: A Cognitive-Motivational Analysis (1979) ===
Barbara, Santa

The implications of these results for positive applications of group identification are discussed. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: isolation, productivity, community-health.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Influences of Organizational Culture and Climate on Individual Creativity (2011) ===
CLIMATE; BEHAVIOR, AND INDIVIDUAL

Because individuals are the source for the development of new ideas that are the essence of creativity, much of this work has focused on what motivates or enables individual creativity (Redmond, Mumford, & Teach, 1993; Scott & Bruce, 1994). [draft]

Population: employees/workers.

Keywords: open-source.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== JOB BURNOUT (1961) ===
Berkeley; California. ''Christina Maslach1, Wilmar B. Schaufeli2, Michael P. Leiter3''

The focus on engagement, the positive antithesis of burnout, promises to yield new perspectives on interventions to alleviate burnout. [draft]

Population: research participants or target population described in the paper.

Keywords: burnout, wellbeing, job-engagement, productivity, open-source.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Mark Granovetter (1983) ===
BROOK, STONY

1980 "Conversation Networks as Communication Networks." Abstract of Ph.D. dissertation, University of Haifa, Israel. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: productivity, open-source, collaboration.

Evidence: moderate, review, review-scoping. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Multidimensional Assessment of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation: Development, Factor Structure, and Initial Validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale1 (2003) ===
significance, Despite its clinical; however; regulation, agreed-upon conceptualizations of emotion; the, comprehensive measures that adequately assess. ''Kim L. Gratz2, 3, and Lizabeth Roemer2''

Preliminary findings suggest that the DERS has high internal consistency, good test-retest reliability, and adequate construct and predictive validity. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: open-source.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== pelled-et-al-1999-exploring-the-black-box-an-analysis-of-work-group-diversity-conflict-and-performance (1999) ===
Pelled, Lisa Hope

Findings show that diversity shapes conflict and that conflict, in turn, shapes performance, but these linkages have subtleties. [draft]

Population: employees/workers.

Keywords: productivity, collaboration.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== reagans-mcevily-2003-network-structure-and-knowledge-transfer-the-effects-of-cohesion-and-range (2003) ===
Reagans, Ray

As a complement to previous research that has emphasized the dyadic tie strength component of informal networks, we focus on how network structure influences the knowledge transfer process. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: productivity, collaboration.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Rethinking Individualism and Collectivism: Evaluation of Theoretical Assumptions and Meta-Analyses (1980) ===
Oyserman, Daphna; Coon, Heather M.

Among Asians, only Chinese showed large effects, being both less individualistic and more collectivistic. [draft]

Population: employees/workers.

Keywords: wellbeing, open-source.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Review - The Handbook of Research Synthesis by Cooper and Hedges - Ziegel Technometrics 1995 (1995) ===
Review

Review Reviewed Work(s): The Handbook of Research Synthesis by H. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: productivity, open-source.

Evidence: strong, review, review-systematic. Risk of bias: low. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Review Symposium (1981) ===
/ASQ

Andrews Burt has two goals in Structural Holes: to delineate a structural approach to competitive social processes such as exchange and to show how this approach can tie together many different research agendas. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: productivity, open-source, social-support.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Reviewed Work(s) Culture s Consequences International Differences in Work-Related Values by Geert Hofstede (1980) ===
[authors and venue to add]

Chapter 7 considers the implications of the results, especially with reference to antitrust issues. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: isolation, productivity, open-source.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, longitudinal. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Robert A. Karasek-JobDemandsJob-1979 (1979) ===
Demands, Job; Latitude, Job Decision; Jr.

This model predicts that mental strain results from the interaction of job demands and job decision latitude. [draft]

Population: students/adolescents.

Keywords: mental-health, job-satisfaction, productivity.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== rothbard-2001-enriching-or-depleting-the-dynamics-of-engagement-in-work-and-family-roles (2001) ===
arguments, Two competing; depletion; enrichment; (Edwards, from research on resource drain; Rothbard; (Merton, role conflict; Greenhaus; Beutell; physio

I examine two competing arguments about the effects of engaging in multiple roles, depletion and enrichment, and integrate them by identifying the type of emotional response to a role, negative or positive, as a critical contrasting assumption held by these two perspectives. [draft]

Population: n=790; employees/workers.

Keywords: work-life-balance, job-engagement.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Self-Efficacy and Work-Related Performance: A Meta-Analysis (1992) ===
Irvine

Stajkovic University of California, Irvine Fred Luthans University of Nebraska This meta-analysis (114 studies, k = 157, N = 21,616) examined the relationship between selfefficacy and work-related performance. [draft]

Population: n=21616; research participants or target population described in the paper.

Keywords: productivity, open-source.

Evidence: strong, review, review-systematic. Risk of bias: low. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Social support in the workplace between teleworkers, office-based colleagues and supervisors (2016) ===
Collins, Alison M.; Hislop, Donald; Cartwright, Susan

Collins, Donald Hislop and Susan Cartwright This paper draws upon the findings of qualitative interviews carried out with teleworkers, their office-based colleagues and supervisory staff of a teleworking initiative introduced by a UK public sector local authority to explore workplace social support relationships. [draft]

Population: remote workers.

Keywords: remote-work, wellbeing, open-source, social-support, collaboration.

Evidence: weak, empirical, qualitative. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Structural Holes and Good Ideas1 (2004) ===
[authors and venue to add]

Burt University of Chicago This article outlines the mechanism by which brokerage provides social capital. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: productivity, open-source, collaboration.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks (2007) ===
Onnela, J.-P.; Saramäki, J.; Hyvönen, J.; Szabó, G.; Lazer, D.; Kaski, K.; Kertész, J.; Barabási, A.-L.

Here we examine the communication patterns of millions of mobile phone users, allowing us to simultaneously study the local and the global structure of a society-wide communication network. [draft]

Population: n=4; remote workers or employees.

Keywords: community-health, collaboration.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Testing Mediational Models With Longitudinal Data: Questions and Tips in the Use of Structural Equation Modeling (2003) ===
Cole, David A.; Psychology; Development, Human; Maxwell, Scott E.

Finally, we suggest a series of 5 steps when using SEM to test mediational processes in longitudinal designs: testing the measurement model, testing for added components, testing for omitted paths, testing the stationarity assumption, and estimating the mediational effects. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: open-source.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, longitudinal. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown About Telecommuting: Meta-Analysis of Psychological Mediators and Individual Consequences (1980) ===
Gajendran, Ravi S.; Harrison, David A.; Organization

Results provide building blocks for a more complete theoretical and practical treatment of telecommuting. [draft]

Population: n=12883; employees/workers.

Keywords: remote-work, isolation, work-life-balance, job-satisfaction, productivity.

Evidence: strong, review, review-systematic. Risk of bias: low. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation (1995) ===
[authors and venue to add]

Price and McKenry (1988) suggested another reason that one-time measures may fail to find universal distress after divorce: Many couples may have passed through the most distressing phase before the researchers collect their data. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: loneliness, wellbeing, open-source, community-health.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, longitudinal. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence (2020) ===
Brooks, Samantha K; Webster, Rebecca K; Smith, Louise E; Woodland, Lisa; Wessely, Simon; Greenberg, Neil; Rubin, Gideon James. ''Key messages'', 6736(20), 30460-8

Some researchers have suggested long-lasting effects. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: mental-health, isolation, wellbeing, open-source, suicide-prevention.

Evidence: strong, review, review-systematic. Risk of bias: low. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: Development and Validation of a Measure for Assessing Recuperation and Unwinding From Work (2007) ===
[authors and venue to add]

Confirmatory factor analyses with a calibration and a cross-validation sample (total N 930) showed that four recovery experiences can be differentiated: psychological detachment from work, relaxation, mastery, and control (Study 2). [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: burnout, wellbeing, productivity, open-source.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, longitudinal. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== The Search-Transfer Problem The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits (1967) ===
Burgelman, Robert; Burton, Diane; Chesbrough, Henry; Hansen, Helene; Higgins, Monica; Ibarra, Herminia; Kang, David; March, James; Pfeffer, Jeffrey; Podolny, Joel; Tushman, Michael; Valley, Kathleen

I use a network study of 120 new-product development projects undertaken by 41 divisions in a large electronics company to examine the task of developing new products in the least amount of time. [draft]

Population: remote workers or employees.

Keywords: open-source, collaboration.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== UNCERTAINTY DURING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: TYPES, CONSEQUENCES, AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES (2004) ===
DiFonzo, Singapore. We thank Nicholas

The model was tested in a public sector organization and the results supported it. [draft]

Population: employees/workers.

Keywords: wellbeing, collaboration.

Evidence: moderate, review, review-scoping. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Variance Estimation, Design Effects, and Sample Size Calculations for Respondent-Driven Sampling (2006) ===
[authors and venue to add]

ABSTRACT Hidden populations, such as injection drug users and sex workers, are central to a number of public health problems. [draft]

Population: employees/workers.

Keywords: open-source.

Evidence: speculative, theory. Risk of bias: unclear. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Why Mental Health Education & Prevention is Harmful (2023) ===
screening, The paradoxical effect of; programs, prevention

Enter WISE Teens, a school program focused on "social-emotional skills training," spearheaded by clinical psychologists in training. [draft]

Population: n=13; students/adolescents.

Keywords: mental-health, loneliness, wellbeing, open-source, suicide-prevention.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Work/family border theory: A new theory of work/family balance (2000) ===
Clark, Sue Campbell

This article introduces work/family border theory - a new theory about work/family balance. [draft]

Population: employees/workers.

Keywords: open-source, social-support.

Evidence: weak, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

=== Workplace Isolation Occurring in Remote Workers (2019) ===
''Walden University''

A series of semistructured interviews with 21 remote workers that consisted of 4 different divisions at the same organization was conducted to yield thematic results. [draft]

Population: remote workers.

Keywords: remote-work, isolation, wellbeing, productivity, social-support.

Evidence: moderate, review, review-scoping. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: needs review: authors and venue not yet verified; no DOI recorded.

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Created page with " == Research Library: U-Z == Papers by first-author surname, U to Z. Return to the Research Library index. === Social Networks, the 'Work' and Work Force of Chronic Illness Self-Management: A Survey Analysis of Personal Communities (2013) === Vassilev, Ivaylo; Rogers, Anne; Blickem, Christian; Brooks, Helen; Kapadia, Dharmi; Kennedy, Anne; Sanders, Caroline; Kirk, Sue; Reeves, David. ''PLOS ONE'', 8(4), e59723. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059723 10.13..."

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== Research Library: U-Z ==
Papers by first-author surname, U to Z. Return to the [[Research Library]] index.

=== Social Networks, the 'Work' and Work Force of Chronic Illness Self-Management: A Survey Analysis of Personal Communities (2013) ===
Vassilev, Ivaylo; Rogers, Anne; Blickem, Christian; Brooks, Helen; Kapadia, Dharmi; Kennedy, Anne; Sanders, Caroline; Kirk, Sue; Reeves, David. ''PLOS ONE'', 8(4), e59723. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059723 10.1371/journal.pone.0059723]

Using concentric-circle network mapping with 300 adults living with chronic heart disease or diabetes in deprived areas of Greater Manchester, this study quantifies how illness-relevant work is distributed across personal network members. It demonstrates that the division of labour is shaped far more by member characteristics such as gender, proximity, and frequency of contact than by the health or socioeconomic status of the person with the condition. [draft]

Population: n=300; Adults with chronic heart disease, diabetes, or both, recruited from GP disease registers in deprived areas of Greater Manchester, North ....

Keywords: chronic-illness, self-management, social-networks, egocentric-networks, informal-care.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium.

=== The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers (1979) ===
Wellman, Barry. ''American Journal of Sociology'', 84(5), 1201-1231

Wellman's 1979 East York study is the foundational empirical test of whether urban primary ties persist and in what structural form. Using egocentric network data from 845 adults, it demonstrates that intimate networks are prevalent but sparsely knit, spatially dispersed, and asymmetrically reciprocated. [draft]

Population: n=845; 845 adults aged 18 and over residing in East York, a predominantly British-Canadian upper-working-class and lower-middle-class inner subu....

Keywords: personal-community, intimate-networks, community-question, social-support, tie-strength.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: no DOI recorded.

=== Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking (2001) ===
Wellman, Barry. ''International Journal of Urban and Regional Research'', 25(2), 227-252. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00236 10.1111/1468-2427.00236]

Wellman argues that community has shifted through three successive forms: door-to-door (place-bound neighbourhood groups), place-to-place (interhousehold networks spanning distance), and now person-to-person (individualised, portable, networked connectivity). This trajectory gives a precise historical and structural vocabulary for understanding how physical space and cyberspace interpenetrate rather than compete. [draft]

Population: No primary sample; the paper is a theoretical essay drawing on secondary studies, field observations and personal communications..

Keywords: social-networks, community, networked-individualism, cyberplace, mobile-communication.

Evidence: low, theoretical, conceptual-essay. Risk of bias: high. Flags: high risk of bias.

Research Library P-T

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Created page with " == Research Library: P-T == Papers by first-author surname, P to T. Return to the Research Library index. === Egocentric Network Analysis: Foundations, Methods, and Models (2018) === Perry, Brea L.; Pescosolido, Bernice A.; Borgatti, Stephen P.. ''Cambridge University Press''. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316443255 10.1017/9781316443255] The definitive comprehensive guide to ego network study design, data collection, and analysis. It covers everything from con..."

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=== Egocentric Network Analysis: Foundations, Methods, and Models (2018) ===
Perry, Brea L.; Pescosolido, Bernice A.; Borgatti, Stephen P.. ''Cambridge University Press''. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316443255 10.1017/9781316443255]

The definitive comprehensive guide to ego network study design, data collection, and analysis. It covers everything from conceptualising research questions and sampling strategies to name generators, alter elicitation, visualisation, multilevel regression, and longitudinal modelling. [draft]

Population: Not applicable. This is a methods textbook, not an empirical study with a research sample..

Keywords: egocentric-networks, personal-networks, social-network-analysis, tie-strength, network-structure.

Evidence: reference, methods, textbook. Risk of bias: not-applicable.

=== Ambivalent versus Problematic Social Ties: Implications for Psychological Health, Functional Health, and Interpersonal Coping (2012) ===
Rook, Karen S.; Luong, Gloria; Sorkin, Dara H.; Newsom, Jason T.; Krause, Neal. ''Psychology and Aging'', 27(4). DOI [https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029246 10.1037/a0029246]

This study gives the project a precise mechanism-level distinction between two categories of harmful network tie: ambivalent ties (mixed positive and negative) and exclusively problematic ties (negative only). Using a large, nationally representative sample of older adults, it shows that these two tie types have divergent health footprints and elicit qualitatively different coping responses. [draft]

Population: n=916; Non-institutionalised, English-speaking, cognitively functional adults aged 65 to 90 drawn from the Later Life Study of Social Exchanges.

Keywords: social-networks, tie-quality, ambivalent-ties, problematic-ties, coping.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium.

Research Library K-O

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Created page with " == Research Library: K-O == Papers by first-author surname, K to O. Return to the Research Library index. === Egocentric Social Network Structure, Health, and Pro-Social Behaviors in a National Panel Study of Americans (2012) === O'Malley, A. James; Arbesman, Samuel; Steiger, Darby Miller; Fowler, James H.; Christakis, Nicholas A.. ''PLoS ONE'', 7(5), e36250. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036250 10.1371/journal.pone.0036250] This paper provides popula..."

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=== Egocentric Social Network Structure, Health, and Pro-Social Behaviors in a National Panel Study of Americans (2012) ===
O'Malley, A. James; Arbesman, Samuel; Steiger, Darby Miller; Fowler, James H.; Christakis, Nicholas A.. ''PLoS ONE'', 7(5), e36250. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036250 10.1371/journal.pone.0036250]

This paper provides population-representative longitudinal data on how egocentric network structure relates to health and prosocial behaviour in American adults over three waves. It documents the degree-closeness tradeoff and identifies bidirectional links between network size and prosocial behaviour. [draft]

Population: n=3232; Adults recruited from the web-based portion of the Gallup national probability panel.

Keywords: egocentric-networks, social-network-structure, prosocial-behaviour, health-outcomes, tie-strength.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, longitudinal-panel. Risk of bias: medium.

Research Library F-J

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Created page with " == Research Library: F-J == Papers by first-author surname, F to J. Return to the Research Library index. === Social connection as a critical factor for mental and physical health: evidence, trends, challenges, and future implications (2024) === Holt-Lunstad, Julianne. ''World Psychiatry'', 23(3), 312-332. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21224 10.1002/wps.21224] This authoritative review synthesises the cumulative evidence base linking social connection to mental..."

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=== Social connection as a critical factor for mental and physical health: evidence, trends, challenges, and future implications (2024) ===
Holt-Lunstad, Julianne. ''World Psychiatry'', 23(3), 312-332. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21224 10.1002/wps.21224]

This authoritative review synthesises the cumulative evidence base linking social connection to mental health, physical morbidity and mortality, and documents societal trends toward greater disconnection. It provides a conceptual three-component framework (structure, function, quality), a worked taxonomy of relevant terms, risk-profile matrices, and a set of national-strategy recommendations. [draft]

Population: General population across all ages and health statuses, synthesised from hundreds of studies and millions of participants worldwide.

Keywords: social-connection, social-isolation, loneliness, mortality, public-health.

Evidence: high, review, narrative-review. Risk of bias: low.

Research Library A-E

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Created page with " == Research Library: A-E == Papers by first-author surname, A to E. Return to the Research Library index. === Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer assisted network data collection software suite (2021) === Birkett, M; Melville, J; Janulis, P; Phillips II, G; Contractor, N; Hogan, B. ''Social Networks'', 66, 114-124. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.003 10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.003] This paper documents the design rationale beh..."

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=== Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer assisted network data collection software suite (2021) ===
Birkett, M; Melville, J; Janulis, P; Phillips II, G; Contractor, N; Hogan, B. ''Social Networks'', 66, 114-124. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.003 10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.003]

This paper documents the design rationale behind the Network Canvas software suite, a free, open-source, three-application toolkit for collecting complex egocentric and personal network data. It offers a detailed account of why visual, touch-based, interviewer-assisted sociogram interfaces reduce participant burden and improve data quality. [draft]

Population: n=181; Social network and public health researchers plus research participants in validation studies.

Keywords: social-networks, ego-networks, network-data-collection, software-design, participant-aided-sociogram.

Evidence: low, methods, design-report. Risk of bias: high. Flags: high risk of bias.

=== Network of Categories: A Method to Aggregate Egocentric Network Survey Data into a Whole Network Structure (2025) ===
Bolíbar, Mireia; Martínez-Ariño, Julia; Schiller, Maria. ''Field Methods'', 37(2), 110-127. DOI [https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X241262678 10.1177/1525822X241262678]

This paper introduces the network of categories, a method for converting collections of egocentric network survey data into a whole-network structure by aggregating ego and alter actors into attribute-based categories. It bridges the gap between egocentric and sociocentric network analysis without requiring costly link-tracing. [draft]

Population: n=476; Local urban organisations in France and Germany, including political parties, trade unions, welfare organisations, business associations,....

Keywords: egocentric-networks, whole-network-analysis, inter-organisational-networks, governance-networks, network-methodology.

Evidence: moderate, methodological, comparative-cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium.

=== Inferring global network properties from egocentric data with applications to epidemics (2021) ===
Britton, Tom; Trapman, Pieter

This paper formalises the limits of what egocentric data can tell us about a social network as a whole, showing that knowing only local neighbourhood structure leaves the size of the giant component and epidemic outbreak almost unconstrained, but that richer egocentric data progressively tightens the upper bound on outbreak size. [draft]

Population: Theoretical population of large abstract social networks; no empirical human sample..

Keywords: network-structure, egocentric-data, giant-component, epidemic-spreading, degree-distribution.

Evidence: theoretical, mathematical-modelling. Risk of bias: low. Flags: no DOI recorded; venue unverified.

Help-Seeking Behaviors

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	~~=== Summary ===~~		Help seeking functions as a network norm that spreads, not merely an individual trait some people have and others lack. Wyman et al. (2010) demonstrated this by training only a small fraction of a school's students as peer leaders, then measuring change across the entire student population. Among the trained peer leaders themselves, "training also substantially increased norms for help-seeking from adults at school (ES=0.62; P<.001)." But the effect did not stop there: at the population level, the intervention produced "positive and significant... effects on perceptions of adult help for suicidal peers (ES=0.63; 95% CI=0.29, 0.97) and on norms for help-seeking from adults (ES=0.58; 95% CI=0.24, 0.91)" among students who were never trained at all. A norm shifted in a small group travelled through the school's existing social structure to reach students the programme never directly touched.
	Help seeking is a ~~skill~~ that ~~must be learned and can only be exercised in~~ an ~~environment of acceptance~~ and ~~trust~~. ~~It is~~ a ~~protective factor in the context~~ of ~~Social Network Health and can ultimately become~~ a ~~cultural norm~~. ~~Strong relational connections must be formed to encourage~~ help seeking. ~~To express~~ the ~~benefit of this outcome of Social Network Health approaches~~: ~~if an individual has a large number~~ of ~~connections that they are comfortable reaching out to~~ for ~~help, to solve even the most sensitive problems~~, and help-seeking ~~is accepted~~, ~~encouraged, and culturally normal, then there is~~ a ~~strong chance that~~ the ~~individual will~~ reach ~~out for help to a trusted connection, which will likely increase their chances to solve their problem. Frequent expression of help-seeking behaviors is an indicator of~~ the ~~maturity of a community in terms of mental health~~.

	~~=== Notes~~ and ~~references ===~~		This shift was not distributed evenly, and that unevenness is itself informative. Wyman et al. (2010) report that "the norms most strongly enhanced through the intervention were students' perceptions that adults in their school can provide help to suicidal students and the acceptability of seeking help from adults," and specifically that "the intervention significantly increased perceptions of adult help for students with suicidal ideations," while the same effect was "positive but nonsignificant for students without suicidal ideations." The largest gains in help-seeking acceptability landed precisely on the students who needed them most, not spread thinly across everyone regardless of need.
	'~~''Effect~~ of the ~~Wingman-Connect Upstream Suicide Prevention Program~~ for ~~Air Force Personnel~~ in ~~Training~~. ~~A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial'''~~
	~~'''JAMA Open Network, October, 2020'''~~

	'~~''Research Outcomes – Evidence Based Key Findings include:'''~~		The mechanism behind this diffusion is structural, not just attitudinal. Wyman et al. (2019) found that "cohesive youth–adult networks may promote more help-seeking for students and for their friends with whom they share a common bond to a supportive adult," and that "students with trusted adults at school are more likely to seek help." Help-seeking acceptability, in other words, is not a belief people arrive at independently; it depends on whether a trusted adult is actually reachable within a person's own network.

	* Increased class cohesion, ~~morale~~, ~~positive bonds~~, and ~~acceptability~~ of help seeking		Two honest limits belong here. First, this evidence again concentrates in one research programme working with adolescent school populations. Second, and more fundamentally, what has been measured is shifted acceptability and expressed norms about seeking help, not directly observed instances of someone in distress actually reaching out. The toolkit's own framing treats help-seeking as a behaviour; the strongest evidence available documents the attitude that precedes it.

	=== ~~Auto-Generated ChatGPT stuff~~ ===		=== '''Context: Help Seeking in Schools''' ===
	~~Help~~-seeking ~~behaviors~~ in ~~the context of preventative mental health care refer~~ to ~~actions taken by individuals~~ to ~~seek assistance or resources to address potential or~~ existing ~~mental health concerns before they become more severe~~. ~~These behaviors are crucial~~ for ~~early intervention and can significantly contribute to better mental health outcomes~~. ~~Key aspects of help-seeking behaviors include~~:		The Wyman et al. (2010) implementation ratio is worth naming explicitly for schools: population-wide gains in help-seeking norms came from training peer leaders who made up only "approximately 2%" of students in larger schools and "approximately 10%" in smaller ones. A school does not need to reach every student directly to shift schoolwide norms; it needs a carefully selected, diverse group of peer leaders whose influence travels through existing friendships. The same study's finding that gains concentrated among students with a history of suicidal ideation suggests schools should expect, and look for, the largest benefit precisely among students already showing signs of distress, rather than assuming a flat, even effect across the whole population. Fidelity checks matter too: staff interviews confirmed that trained peer leaders had actually contacted the trusted adults they identified, not merely completed the training.

	~~# '''Recognition of Need~~''': ~~Individuals must first recognize and acknowledge their need for help. This awareness is the initial step~~ in ~~seeking assistance~~ and ~~can involve identifying symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues (Center for Teaching & Learning) (National University).~~		=== '''Context: Help Seeking among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===
	# '''~~Knowledge~~ and ~~Understanding''': Awareness of mental health resources and understanding how to access them~~ is ~~critical~~. ~~This includes knowing about available services such as counseling, support groups, hotlines,~~ and ~~online resources~~ (~~National University~~).		For remote IT and technology workers, help-seeking depends on whether asking a quick question still feels normal once physical proximity is gone. Cooper and Kurland (2002) found that telecommuters at technology firms specifically lost this: they "did not have ready access to people (to ask questions of), and to information, that they would otherwise have gained through casual conversations." The barrier was not unwillingness to seek help but the disappearance of the low-stakes, informal moments where a question gets asked before it becomes a bigger problem. Miller et al. (2019) found a related pattern among open-source contributors, where "lack of peer support" was among the reasons established contributors cited for disengaging entirely. Together, these findings suggest help-seeking in distributed teams needs a deliberate substitute for hallway questions, not an assumption that people will ask when they need to.
	~~# '''Reducing Stigma'''~~: ~~Overcoming the stigma associated with mental health issues is essential. Individuals are more likely to seek help if they feel that it is socially acceptable and that~~ they ~~will~~ not ~~be judged or discriminated against for doing so~~ (~~Wikipedia~~).
	~~# '''Social Support''': Encouragement from family~~, ~~friends~~, ~~and community members can motivate individuals~~ to seek help~~. Social support networks play~~ a ~~vital role in facilitating help-seeking behaviors by providing emotional support and practical assistance (Center for Teaching & Learning) (Wikipedia)~~.
	~~# '''Accessibility of Services''': Ensuring that mental health services are easily accessible and affordable increases the likelihood that individuals will seek help~~. ~~This includes having services available in multiple formats~~ (in-~~person~~, ~~online, telehealth) and locations (Vanderbilt University).~~
	~~# '''Positive Past Experiences''': Individuals who have had positive experiences with seeking help in~~ the ~~past are more likely to do so again~~. ~~Building trust in mental health services through positive interactions can encourage future~~ help-seeking ~~behaviors (Wikipedia).~~
	~~# '''Education and Awareness Campaigns''': Public health campaigns and educational programs~~ that promote mental health awareness and the benefits of early intervention can encourage help-seeking behaviors. These initiatives can provide information on recognizing mental health issues and available resources (National University).

	~~By promoting these behaviors~~, ~~preventative mental health care can effectively address issues early~~, ~~reduce~~ the ~~severity~~ of ~~mental health problems~~, and ~~improve overall well~~-~~being~~.		=== '''References''' ===
			Cooper, C. D., & Kurland, N. B. (2002). Telecommuting, professional isolation, and employee development in public and private organizations. ''Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23''(4), 511–532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1002/job.145</nowiki>

			Miller, C., Widder, D. G., Kästner, C., & Vasilescu, B. (2019). Why do people give up FLOSSing? A study of contributor disengagement in open source. In F. Bordeleau et al. (Eds.), ''Open Source Systems'' (IFIP AICT, Vol. 556, pp. 116–129). Springer. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20883-7_11</nowiki>

			Wyman, P. A., Brown, C. H., LoMurray, M., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Petrova, M., Yu, Q., Walsh, E., Tu, X., & Wang, W. (2010). An outcome evaluation of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program delivered by adolescent peer leaders in high schools. ''American Journal of Public Health, 100''(9), 1653–1661. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2009.190025</nowiki>

			Wyman, P. A., Pickering, T. A., Pisani, A. R., Rulison, K., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Hartley, C., Gould, M., LoMurray, M., Brown, C. H., & Valente, T. W. (2019). Peer‐adult network structure and suicide attempts in 38 high schools: Implications for network-informed suicide prevention. ''Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60''(10), 1065–1075. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13102</nowiki>

Belonging

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Connection to Guidance

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	~~=== Summary ===~~
	[[File:Protective Relationships.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman describes that youth who are connected to reliable adults gain protection, and that being connected to peers who are connected to reliable adults provides additional protection.]]		[[File:Protective Relationships.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman describes that youth who are connected to reliable adults gain protection, and that being connected to peers who are connected to reliable adults provides additional protection.]]
	Connection to ~~Guidance is the connection with a mentor,~~ a trusted adult ~~or person of guidance provides~~ a ~~protective bond~~ that ~~encourages help-seeking behaviors~~. ~~This is~~ a ~~protective factor for~~ the ~~individual~~. ~~Cohesive youth–adult networks may promote~~ more ~~help-seeking for~~ students ~~and for their friends~~ with ~~whom they share a common bond to a supportive adult~~.		Connection to guidance means having access to a trusted adult, and the evidence treats its absence as an active risk factor, not a neutral gap. Wyman et al. (2019) found that "student isolation from adults specifically increased vulnerability to" suicide attempts: "a difference of 10% fewer students isolated from adults (1 SD) was associated with 1.41 fewer attempts per 100 students, a 20.1% reduction in the average rate of attempts." Students who had made attempts were markedly more likely to be cut off from adult connection than students with no such history (42.7% isolated from adults, versus 31.5% among students with neither ideation nor attempts).

	~~=== Notes and references ===~~

			The protective mechanism is not simply an individual having one trusted adult; it is the connection being shared and woven into the peer network. Wyman et al. (2019) describe this as "the first empirical evidence linking more integrated youth–adult networks (i.e., students sharing trusted adults with friends) to lower" suicide attempts, concluding that "cohesive youth–adult networks may promote more help-seeking for students and for their friends with whom they share a common bond to a supportive adult." The same study found a specific structural pattern behind this: attempt rates were lower in schools where "a smaller proportion of staff received disproportionately more nominations" as trusted adults, rather than nominations spread thinly across many adults. A small number of clearly identified, heavily relied-upon adults appears more protective than a diffuse, weakly connected pool.

	~~'''Journal~~ of ~~Child Psychology~~ and Psychiatry : (~~2019~~)~~, Peter A~~. ~~Wyman~~, ~~Trevor A. Pickering~~, ~~Anthony R. Pisani~~, ~~et al~~.~~'''~~		This connection is trainable rather than fixed. Wyman et al. (2010) found that peer-led training "increased... the number of identified trusted adults" among peer leaders (ES=0.49; P<.001), and at the population level produced "positive and significant... effects on perceptions of adult help for suicidal peers (ES=0.63...) and on norms for help-seeking from adults (ES=0.58...)." Guidance, in other words, moved in response to a deliberate intervention, not only in response to which students happened to already have supportive adults in their lives.

	~~Social networks provide the mechanisms for the diffusion~~ of ~~norms~~ and ~~practices and the context for peer group monitoring~~ and ~~support~~. ~~Network characteristics influence the spread of many health behaviors. By focusing on patterns of relationships~~, ~~network methods can clarify~~ the ~~contexts~~ in ~~which relationships form and exert influence on others~~.		Two honest limits belong here. First, this evidence again concentrates in one research programme, working with adolescent school populations specifically. Second, in Wingman-Connect, guidance is trained as one of four bundled protective cores, "kinship... purpose... guidance (mentors and institutional resources)... and balance" (Wyman et al., 2020, Interventions), so its contribution to outcomes has not been isolated from the other three cores trained alongside it in that trial.

	~~Cohesive youth–adult networks may promote more help~~-~~seeking for~~ students ~~and for their friends~~ with ~~whom they share~~ a ~~common bond~~ to a ~~supportive adult~~.		=== '''Context: Connection to Guidance in Schools''' ===
			Schools can measure connection to guidance directly using the same method the underlying research used: asking students to name the adults they trust. Wyman et al. (2019) operationalised this as a concrete school-level statistic, "percent adult isolates (i.e., 8.2%–53.4% of students did not name any trusted adults across schools)," a figure that varied widely even among schools with no formal programme. This gives schools a measurable baseline rather than an assumption that caring staff are automatically reaching students. The centralization finding carries a specific implementation lesson: rather than encouraging every staff member to be a generic resource, schools may do better identifying and supporting a smaller number of adults who become well-known, heavily-relied-upon points of contact, consistent with the finding that concentrated, well-identified trusted adults tracked with lower attempt rates than diffusely distributed ones.

	~~Maximizing protective bonds across school populations~~, ~~increasing opportunities~~ for ~~group cohesion including integrated youth– adult networks~~, and ~~promoting influence of youth with healthy coping~~. ~~Our findings suggest effective interventions will involve youth~~ and ~~adults~~.		=== '''Context: Connection to Guidance among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===
			For remote IT and technology workers, the closest analogue to a trusted adult is a supervisor who is genuinely accessible for guidance rather than nominally responsible. Cooper and Kurland (2002) found that telecommuting specifically disrupted this access at technology firms: one supervisor explained that remote work made it "really hard to get a sense" of an employee's needs, since "if you do everything remotely... how do you do somebody's review?" But accessibility did not have to collapse; some supervisors preserved it through deliberate structure rather than incidental contact, holding "weekly meetings" and scheduled one-on-ones specifically so employees "did not miss pertinent information." This suggests that connection to guidance in distributed teams depends on whether access to a supervisor is scheduled and protected, not on proximity, which remote work removes by default.

	'''~~NIMH~~'''		=== '''References''' ===
			Cooper, C. D., & Kurland, N. B. (2002). Telecommuting, professional isolation, and employee development in public and private organizations. ''Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23''(4), 511–532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1002/job.145</nowiki>

	Wyman ~~has led research (NIH~~, ~~CDC funded) testing this approach~~, ~~which disseminates skills for social health through youth peer networks~~.~~<sup> </sup> The high~~-~~energy~~, ~~interactive training improves student connectedness and coping norms~~, ~~and protective effects spread school-wide including adult help for suicidal youth~~.~~<sup> </sup> A study aggregating three RCTs~~ (~~N=78 schools; 39,900 students~~) ~~showed fewer~~ suicide ~~deaths~~ in schools ~~implementing this approach~~. <~~sup~~> </~~sup~~>		Wyman, P. A., Brown, C. H., LoMurray, M., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Petrova, M., Yu, Q., Walsh, E., Tu, X., & Wang, W. (2010). An outcome evaluation of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program delivered by adolescent peer leaders in high schools. ''American Journal of Public Health, 100''(9), 1653–1661. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2009.190025</nowiki>

	'''~~Social Science & Medicine~~'~~'' Social Science & Medicine 296~~ (~~2022~~) ~~114737~~		Wyman, P. A., Pickering, T. A., Pisani, A. R., Rulison, K., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Hartley, C., Gould, M., LoMurray, M., Brown, C. H., & Valente, T. W. (2019). Peer‐adult network structure and suicide attempts in 38 high schools: Implications for network-informed suicide prevention. ''Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60''(10), 1065–1075. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13102</nowiki>

	Wingman-Connect ~~Program’s interactive~~ training ~~created more dynamic relationship networks~~. ~~Airmen in W-CP groups made more changes in who they named as valued connections~~, ~~even as the overall average number of valued connections increased~~.		Wyman, P. A., Pisani, A. R., Brown, C. H., Yates, B., Morgan-DeVelder, L., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Gibbons, R. D., Caine, E. D., Petrova, M., Neal-Walden, T., Linkh, D. J., Matteson, A., Simonson, J., & Pflanz, S. E. (2020). Effect of the Wingman-Connect upstream suicide prevention program for Air Force personnel in training: A cluster randomized clinical trial. ''JAMA Network Open, 3''(11), e2022532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22532</nowiki>

Group cohesion

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Deep conversations

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	~~=== '''Summary''' ===~~
	[[File:One Hundred Seconds.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman describes a benefit of sharing and explains a result that participants who shared for more than 100 seconds were more likely to benefit from a training. The metric is really a step toward getting a whole group to benefit from sharing.]]		[[File:One Hundred Seconds.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman describes a benefit of sharing and explains a result that participants who shared for more than 100 seconds were more likely to benefit from a training. The metric is really a step toward getting a whole group to benefit from sharing.]]
	~~An individual’s~~ sense ~~of social connectedness and belonging~~ is ~~based on~~ the ~~perception~~ of ~~how she/he relates~~ to ~~others~~ or ~~a community~~, with ~~an emphasis on~~ the ~~relationship’s quality~~ and the ~~nature~~ of ~~mutual trust and reciprocity; these~~ over and ~~above practical and technical aspects~~ of social ~~support~~. ~~‘Shared emotional connection’ stems from identifying with~~ a ~~shared history~~ of the ~~community through personal investment~~, ~~conversation~~, and ~~interaction with other members~~ of the ~~community~~. ~~Used in this way, deep conversations and belonging reflect~~ a ~~subjective evaluation~~ of the ~~extent~~ to ~~which one has meaningful~~, ~~close~~, and ~~constructive relationships with~~ others (i.e., ~~individuals~~, ~~groups~~, and ~~society) and it may~~ be ~~easily understood as an experience that leads to deeper connection~~.		Personally meaningful sharing, in a network health sense, is the act of voluntarily disclosing something personally relevant, a goal, a value, a real experience to another person or group, and having that disclosure met with attention rather than indifference. The mechanism is distinct from Discovery (which is about a group witnessing demonstrated competence) and from Peer Influence (which is about norms spreading through existing ties): it is about the accumulation of small, voluntary acts of self-revelation building closeness between people who may start as strangers.

			The clearest experimental demonstration of this mechanism comes from Aron, Melinat, Aron, Vallone, and Bator's (1997) closeness-generating procedure, often referred to as the "36 questions" study. Pairs of previously unacquainted participants took turns answering a structured set of increasingly personal questions over roughly 45 minutes, escalating from mild ("What would constitute a perfect day for you?") to genuinely intimate territory. Compared with a control condition involving small talk of similar duration, participants in the escalating-disclosure condition reported significantly greater closeness to their partner afterward, and the effect held up as one of social psychology's most replicated findings about interpersonal connection. The design point that matters for this finding is structural, not just content-based: closeness followed a specific pattern of reciprocal, gradually escalating disclosure, not disclosure in general.

			Collins and Miller's (1994) meta-analysis adds a second layer to the mechanism, sometimes called the disclosure-liking effect. Across the studies they reviewed, three related patterns held: people who disclose more intimately tend to be liked more than people who disclose little; people tend to disclose more to those they already like; and, notably, people tend to come to like others as a result of having disclosed to them, not only the reverse. Sharing something personal is not just a signal of existing closeness; the act of sharing appears to help produce it.

			Reis and Shaver's (1988) intimacy process model supplies the missing ingredient: disclosure alone is not sufficient. Their model argues that intimacy develops through disclosure paired with the discloser's perception that their partner responded with understanding, validation, and care. A group exercise built around personal sharing without attentive, validating response from others is, by this model, unlikely to produce the closeness the format promises.

			None of this literature was tested within a network health or prevention-training context specifically, and none of it comes from the SNHDB corpus. Applying it to a group training setting, where several participants share in front of each other rather than one-to-one, is a reasonable extension, not a demonstrated finding, and should be treated accordingly.

	=== ~~Notes and References~~: ===		=== '''Context: Personally Meaningful Sharing in Schools''' ===
			Applied to a classroom or peer-training setting, the Aron et al. (1997) structure suggests sharing exercises work best when questions escalate gradually from low-stakes to more personal, rather than asking students to open up deeply on the first attempt. Reis and Shaver's (1988) model adds a practical constraint: the exercise depends on how peers respond, not only on what is shared, so facilitators would need to actively coach a validating, non-dismissive response style among peer leaders before asking students to disclose anything personally significant. This is an inference from general self-disclosure research, not a tested finding from a school-based trial, and the risk of poor peer responses undermining rather than building trust should be treated as a real design concern, not a minor one.

	===~~= Autogenerated from chatGPT~~: ====		=== '''Context: Personally Meaningful Sharing among Remote IT and Technology Workers''' ===
	In the ~~context of preventative mental health care~~, ~~"deep conversations" refer to meaningful~~, ~~in-depth discussions that go beyond superficial topics~~, ~~allowing individuals to explore and express their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, experiences, and concerns~~. ~~These conversations can play a significant role in emotional well~~-~~being by providing an opportunity for emotional release, fostering~~ a ~~sense of connection and understanding~~, ~~and facilitating self~~-~~discovery and reflection. Engaging~~ in ~~deep conversations can help individuals process emotions~~, ~~gain new perspectives~~, and ~~develop coping strategies~~, ~~all of which are crucial~~ for ~~mental health prevention and resilience~~.		Distributed teams lose the informal settings, a shared lunch, a hallway aside, where personal sharing typically happens without being asked for. The escalating-question structure from Aron et al. (1997) suggests a possible substitute: brief, structured personal check-in questions at the start of a remote meeting, increasing gradually in personal depth over repeated sessions rather than attempted all at once. Whether this transfers to text-based or video-call formats, and whether it works for ongoing colleagues rather than strangers meeting once, has not been tested. This should be read as a plausible design idea borrowed from unrelated experimental literature, not as an evidence-based recommendation for developer or IT teams specifically.

	~~Deep conversations in preventative mental health care have several key characteristics~~ and ~~benefits~~:		=== '''References''' ===
			Aron, A., Melinat, E., Aron, E. N., Vallone, R. D., & Bator, R. J. (1997). The experimental generation of interpersonal closeness: A procedure and some preliminary findings. ''Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23''(4), 363–377. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167297234003</nowiki>

	~~# Emotional Support and Validation: Deep conversations provide a platform for emotional support~~, ~~where individuals can feel heard, understood, and validated~~. ~~This can reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness, which are risk factors for mental health issues~~.		Collins, N. L., & Miller, L. C. (1994). Self-disclosure and liking: A meta-analytic review. ''Psychological Bulletin, 116''(3), 457–475. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.116.3.457</nowiki>
	~~# Stress and Anxiety Reduction: By discussing worries~~, ~~fears~~, ~~and stressors in a supportive environment, individuals can experience relief from emotional burden~~. ~~Sharing problems can lead to a decreased sense of overwhelm and may help in identifying solutions or coping mechanisms~~.
	~~# Increased~~ Self-~~awareness~~: ~~Engaging in introspective discussions encourages individuals to reflect on their own mental health~~, ~~behaviors~~, ~~and emotional responses~~. ~~This increased self-awareness is fundamental in recognizing early signs of mental distress and seeking timely help.~~
	~~# Development of Coping Strategies~~: ~~Conversations that explore how individuals deal with challenges and adversity can lead to the discovery of new coping strategies and resilience-building techniques~~.
	~~# Strengthening Relationships: Deep conversations can strengthen bonds between individuals, creating stronger support networks~~. ~~Supportive relationships are a key protective factor against mental health problems~~.
	~~# Facilitating Behavioral Change: Discussing topics related to health behaviors, lifestyle choices, and their impact on mental well-being can motivate individuals to engage in healthier habits~~.
	# Encouraging Help-seeking Behavior: Open discussions about mental health challenges and the importance of seeking help can reduce stigma and encourage individuals to access professional support when needed.

	~~For deep conversations to be effective in preventative mental health care~~, ~~they should occur in an environment of trust and respect, where participants feel safe to share openly without fear of judgment~~. ~~These conversations can be facilitated by mental health professionals~~, ~~but they can also occur naturally within supportive relationships with friends~~, ~~family members, mentors, or peers~~. ~~Encouraging deep conversations is~~ an ~~essential component~~ of ~~creating a culture that supports mental health awareness, early intervention~~, and ~~the overall well-being of the community~~.		Reis, H. T., & Shaver, P. (1988). Intimacy as an interpersonal process. In S. Duck (Ed.), ''Handbook of personal relationships: Theory, research and interventions'' (pp. 367–389). Wiley.

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	~~=== Summary ===~~
	Training youth as mentors allows them to lead and guide each other. In school contexts, the selection of mentors has been studied extensively and is an important part of the process of building a community of both activated adults and activated peers.[citation needed] This not only builds leadership and other skills for peer mentors, but it expands the number of community members who are involved in developing the program and building stronger relationships throughout the community. Many more positive interactions (both shallow and deep shares) can be had within the community, between those with more shared experience, at far lower resource expenditure, if more peers are involved in the process of growing the program and establishing healthy cultural norms.

	~~For~~ the ~~purpose of this model we will focus on~~ two ~~types of mentoring:~~		Mentoring is the deliberate transfer mechanism inside network health: an experienced person guiding a less experienced one, distinct from peer influence because the relationship is not symmetrical. In the Wyman research programme, mentoring shows up in two forms, as a safeguard wrapped around peer-led programmes, and as an explicit, trained protective factor in its own right.

	~~'''Developmental:''' Relationship~~, ~~dyadic~~, ~~social~~, ~~emotional~~, ~~cognitive development~~.		As a safeguard, mentoring addresses a specific risk of peer-led design. Wyman et al. (2010) trained "youth opinion leaders from diverse social cliques, including at-risk adolescents... to change the norms and behaviors of their peers by conducting well-defined messaging activities with adult mentoring." The adult layer is not incidental: "by training diverse adolescents together and providing ongoing adult mentoring, the Sources of Strength approach appears to minimize potential iatrogenic effects of grouping at-risk adolescents" (Discussion). Mentoring here functions as insurance against a documented failure mode of peer programmes, that concentrating at-risk individuals together can amplify risk rather than reduce it.

	'~~''Instrumental'''~~: ~~Skill acquisition~~, ~~goal setting~~, ~~curriculum based~~		As a trained factor in its own right, mentoring is named directly in Wingman-Connect's design. The programme built skills around "4 core protective values: kinship (belonging and accountability), purpose (goals and motivating values), guidance (mentors and institutional resources), and balance (activities for well-being)" (Wyman et al., 2020, Interventions). "Guidance" is explicitly the mentoring core, trained alongside cohesion rather than left to develop informally.

	=~~== Notes~~ and ~~References =~~==		The outcome data support treating mentoring access as measurable rather than assumed. Wyman et al. (2010) found that training "increased... the number of identified trusted adults (ES=0.49; P<.001)," and at the population level produced "positive and significant... effects on... norms for help-seeking from adults (ES=0.58; 95% CI=0.24, 0.91)." Connection to a mentoring adult, in other words, moved in response to deliberate training, not merely in response to time passing.

			Two things should be said plainly. First, this evidence again comes from one research programme, working mostly with adolescent populations, and its outcome measures capture access to "trusted adults" and help-seeking rather than the depth of any individual mentoring relationship. Second, the toolkit's own distinction between developmental mentoring (relational, emotional) and instrumental mentoring (skill-based, goal-directed) is only partly tested here: the evidence documents that trusted-adult connections increase and are used, but does not distinguish which type of mentoring relationship, if either purely, is doing the protective work.

	'''~~JAMA Open Network, October, 2020~~'''		=== '''Context: Mentoring in Schools''' ===
			Implementing mentoring in schools means training a specific, small group of adults to guide peer leaders, not assuming mentoring will happen informally. Wyman et al. (2010) describe this concretely: schools trained "2 to 3 staff members as adult advisors who would guide the peer leaders to conduct safe suicide prevention messaging," a defined "4 to 6 hours of training" rather than an open-ended expectation. Fidelity was checked, not assumed: staff interviews found "97.2% had observed or received intervention-specific messages, and 88.9% of those named as trusted adults reported that they had been contacted by a peer leader as the intervention had intended." For schools, the implementation lesson is that mentoring capacity is a resource to be built and measured deliberately, a small number of trained advisors, with fidelity checked afterward, not a byproduct of simply having caring staff on site.

	~~Airmen learn skills to grow~~ and ~~sustain protective factors essential~~ to ~~job success~~, ~~mental health~~ and ~~reduced suicide risk~~ (~~Kinship~~, ~~Purpose~~, ~~Guidance~~, ~~Balance)~~. ~~Class exercises create more cohesive units with skills extended into group culture~~.'~~'' ''' Wingman Connect training is delivered~~ to ~~organizational units using interactive exercises~~ to ~~build key group and individual protective factors (Four Cores):~~		=== '''Context: Mentoring among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===
			For remote IT and technology workers, mentoring is one of the specific developmental activities documented to erode with distance, alongside interpersonal networking and informal learning. Cooper and Kurland (2002), interviewing staff at two high-technology firms and two city governments, found that "the professional development and advancement of telecommuters may be inhibited by the absence of or reduction in mentoring activities," with one technology-firm supervisor explaining plainly: "if you do everything remotely, it's really hard to get a sense at the end of the quarter... how do you do somebody's review?" The same study found mentoring did not have to disappear if restructured deliberately: some supervisors sustained it through scheduled one-on-one meetings and structured written check-ins rather than relying on incidental hallway contact. For distributed developer teams, this suggests mentoring must be built as a scheduled practice, not left to the informal proximity colocated offices provide for free.

	* Group cohesion and belonging (~~Kinship~~)		=== '''References''' ===
	* Informal and ~~formal support~~ and ~~help-seeking~~ (~~Guidance~~)		Cooper, C. D., & Kurland, N. B. (2002). Telecommuting, professional isolation, and employee development in public and private organizations. ''Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23''(4), 511–532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1002/job.145</nowiki>

	'''~~Social Science & Medicine~~'~~'' Social Science & Medicine 296~~ (~~2022~~) ~~114737~~		Wyman, P. A., Brown, C. H., LoMurray, M., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Petrova, M., Yu, Q., Walsh, E., Tu, X., & Wang, W. (2010). An outcome evaluation of the Sources of Strength suicide prevention program delivered by adolescent peer leaders in high schools. ''American Journal of Public Health, 100''(9), 1653–1661. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2009.190025</nowiki>

	~~Specific modules and activities build healthy relationships and accountability (Kinship) informal and formal help~~-~~seeking~~ (~~Guidance~~).		Wyman, P. A., Pisani, A. R., Brown, C. H., Yates, B., Morgan-DeVelder, L., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Gibbons, R. D., Caine, E. D., Petrova, M., Neal-Walden, T., Linkh, D. J., Matteson, A., Simonson, J., & Pflanz, S. E. (2020). Effect of the Wingman-Connect upstream suicide prevention program for Air Force personnel in training: A cluster randomized clinical trial. ''JAMA Network Open, 3''(11), e2022532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22532</nowiki>

	~~'''An Outcome Evaluation~~ of ~~Suicide Prevention Program Delivered by Adolescent Peer Leaders~~ in ~~High Schools~~ ''' ~~Am J Public Health. 2010 September; 100~~(9): ~~1653–1661~~

	~~The norms most strongly enhanced through the intervention were students' perceptions that adults in their school can provide help to suicidal students and the acceptability of seeking help from adults~~.

Peer-influenced

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	Peer influenced or peer-peer activities promote relationships between peers, and engage people in their existing communities, leveraging their existing relationships and common interests, while enhancing their knowledge of one another and their potential within their community. These types of activities can lead to discovery of strengths among peers, and can dispel misunderstandings and misconceptions that could later lead to significant relational friction. Peer influenced practices recognize that individuals can be significantly impacted by the people they associate with, and that peer relationships play a crucial role in mental health.

	~~=== Notes~~ and ~~References~~: ~~===~~		Peer influence is a documented mechanism through which behaviour spreads across a network, and the evidence shows it can travel in either direction: toward risk or toward protection, depending on who carries it. Wyman et al. (2019) found that "adolescents appear susceptible to suicidal behavior modeling," and identified a specific pathway for this: schools where "suicidal youth having higher relative popularity versus nonsuicidal peers" predicted higher suicide attempt rates school-wide. This is peer influence operating as a risk factor: when the students most connected to others are themselves struggling, that influence spreads through the network rather than staying contained.

			Because influence travels through relationships people already have, the logical intervention is not to introduce a new outside channel but to redirect the existing one. Wyman (2014) describes exactly this design: "training for high school student peer leaders to prepare them to modify norms through their natural social networks (Sources of Strength) has increased schoolwide help-seeking acceptability, coping norms, and engagement of adults to help suicidal peers" (p. S254). Wyman et al. (2019) draw the same conclusion from their network data directly: "key opinion leader programs could be an effective approach to increase influence of youth with healthy coping practices including in network components with concentrated suicidal peers" (Discussion). The target of intervention, in both cases, is not the individual student but the influence pathway itself.

	'''~~NIMH'''~~		This same peer-level mechanism, rather than anything delivered to individuals separately, explains outcomes in an adult workplace population as well. In the Wingman-Connect trial, mediation analysis found that "participants' perceptions of being embedded in a more cohesive, healthy class accounted for significant portions of Wingman-Connect's impact on reducing suicidal ideation and depression symptoms" (Wyman et al., 2020, Results). The variable doing the work was the class's cohesion, a property of the peer group, not a property of any one trainee.

	~~'''WINGMAN~~-~~CONNECT PROGRAM MODEL AND DEVELOPMENT'''~~		Two things should be said plainly. First, this evidence again concentrates in one research programme working primarily with adolescent and military populations. Second, the same duality that makes peer influence useful makes it risky if handled carelessly: Wyman et al. (2023) found that a peer-leader programme delivered with low fidelity "became potentially iatrogenic for ninth grade students," meaning the same mechanism that spreads protection can, if poorly implemented, spread harm instead. Peer influence is not inherently protective; it is a channel, and its effect depends on what travels through it.

	~~Wingman~~-~~Connect is an adaptation of~~ a ~~network~~-~~informed intervention~~. ~~Since 2010, PI~~ Wyman ~~has led research~~ (~~NIH, CDC funded~~) ~~testing that program, which disseminates skills for~~ social ~~health through youth peer~~ networks.~~<sup> </sup>~~ The ~~high-energy~~, ~~interactive training improves student connectedness and coping norms, and protective effects spread school-wide including adult~~ help ~~for suicidal youth~~.~~<sup> </sup> A study aggregating three RCTs~~ (~~N=78 schools; 39~~,~~900 students) showed fewer suicide deaths in schools implementing this approach~~. ~~<sup> </sup>~~		=== '''Context: Peer Influence in Schools''' ===
			Implementing peer influence deliberately in schools means training opinion leaders drawn from the student body itself, not adults standing outside it. Wyman et al. (2023) describe Sources of Strength as training "diverse youth key opinion leaders" to run "school-wide prevention campaigns," working through students' own "friendship groups" rather than a curriculum delivered top-down. Wyman (2014) frames the mechanism these leaders are meant to shift: peer-led messaging "modif[ies] norms through... natural social networks" rather than replacing them. The same evidence carries an implementation warning specific to this finding: because peer leaders are the channel, poor selection or poor support of those leaders does not merely fail to help Wyman et al. (2023) found low-fidelity delivery "became potentially iatrogenic for ninth grade students," meaning the leader-selection and training process itself needs as much rigour as the message being spread.

	~~Wingman~~-~~Connect Program structure~~ and ~~key elements together strengthen relationship networks~~, ~~cohesion~~, ~~adaptive coping~~ and ~~group norms~~.		=== '''Context: Peer Influence among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===
			In distributed open-source teams, peer influence shows up as a documented, if secondary, factor in whether contributors stay engaged. Miller et al. (2019) surveyed established GitHub contributors who had disengaged and found "lack of peer support" among the self-reported social reasons for leaving, consistent with wider turnover research where "social embedding in a team" is described as "an antidote to turnover." However, the same study is honest that this was not the dominant factor: occupational transitions, such as changing jobs, were cited "significantly more than lacking peer support or losing interest that are more commonly discussed in the literature." For IT and technology remote workers, this suggests peer influence is a real but secondary lever, worth strengthening deliberately, but not a substitute for addressing the life and career transitions that drive most disengagement.

	~~Program’s novel group intervention strengthens~~ ''~~social bonds~~'' ~~as well as~~ ''~~peer network norms'' that incentivize healthy coping~~. ~~This interactive training progresses from individual engagement (e~~.g., ~~each participant shares career goals and values~~) ~~to building group level skills and norms~~ (e.g., ~~mapping group strengths~~).		=== '''References''' ===
			Miller, C., Widder, D. G., Kästner, C., & Vasilescu, B. (2019). Why do people give up FLOSSing? A study of contributor disengagement in open source. In F. Bordeleau et al. (Eds.), ''Open Source Systems'' (IFIP AICT, Vol. 556, pp. 116–129). Springer. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20883-7_11</nowiki>

	'''~~JAMA Open Network~~, ~~October~~, ~~2020'''~~		Wyman, P. A. (2014). Developmental approach to prevent adolescent suicides: Research pathways to effective upstream preventive interventions. ''American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47''(3, Suppl. 2), S251–S256. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2014.05.039</nowiki>

	~~Airmen learn skills to grow and sustain protective factors essential to job success~~, ~~mental health and reduced suicide risk (Kinship~~, ~~Purpose~~, ~~Guidance~~, ~~Balance~~). ~~Class exercises create more cohesive units with skills extended into group culture~~.''~~' '~~'' ~~Wingman Connect training is delivered to organizational units using interactive exercises to build key group and individual protective factors~~ (~~Four Cores~~):		Wyman, P. A., Pickering, T. A., Pisani, A. R., Rulison, K., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Hartley, C., Gould, M., LoMurray, M., Brown, C. H., & Valente, T. W. (2019). Peer‐adult network structure and suicide attempts in 38 high schools: Implications for network-informed suicide prevention. ''Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60''(10), 1065–1075. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13102</nowiki>

	~~The study’s findings validate~~ the ~~underlying network health model~~: ~~stronger bonds within a more cohesive healthy class reduced suicidal ideation and depression symptoms~~. These findings suggest that training classes became increasingly unified around healthy norms and encouraged classmates who were vulnerable to mental health or occupational problems at a key juncture of military training, ~~in addition to meeting their needs for belonging~~. ~~Work with recent social network modeling show that cohesive groups serve a protective regulatory function through norms and pressures to conform~~.		Wyman, P. A., Pisani, A. R., Brown, C. H., Yates, B., Morgan-DeVelder, L., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Gibbons, R. D., Caine, E. D., Petrova, M., Neal-Walden, T., Linkh, D. J., Matteson, A., Simonson, J., & Pflanz, S. E. (2020). Effect of the Wingman-Connect upstream suicide prevention program for Air Force personnel in training: A cluster randomized clinical trial. ''JAMA Network Open, 3''(11), e2022532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22532</nowiki>

	~~'''Social Science & Medicine''' Social Science & Medicine 296 (2022) 114737~~		Wyman, P., Cero, I., Brown, C. H., Espelage, D., Pisani, A., Kuehl, T., & Schmeelk-Cone, K. (2023). Impact of Sources of Strength on adolescent suicide deaths across three randomized trials. ''Injury Prevention, 29'', 442–445. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-044936</nowiki>

	Wingman-Connect counteracted the typical '''drift''' towards disconnection for Airmen at elevated suicide risk. Six-month findings again showed that W-CP offset the typical trajectory of decreasing connections for Airmen at elevated suicide risk.

	~~These findings are~~, ~~to our knowledge~~, ~~the first to show that a suicide prevention program for small personnel units improved significantly the group relationship network and socially integrated members over time~~. ~~This study extends knowledge of the social and relationship impact of the Wingman-Connect Program as it decreased suicide risk.~~

	Wingman-Connect Program counteracted the expected drift towards disconnection for Airmen at elevated suicide risk by targeting the unit’s relationship network itself. These groups built enhanced suicide protection into their relationship networks, ~~with the most consistent benefits for Airmen at elevated risk of suicide and for those starting with fewest connections.~~

	~~Program built enhanced suicide protection into unit relationship networks and counteracted standard drift towards disconnection for at-risk Airmen~~, ~~despite no explicit content targeting connections specifically to at-risk Airmen~~. ~~Findings support a growing case for the unique contribution of group-level interventions to improve social health of broader populations~~.


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	~~In the context of preventative mental health care~~, ~~"peer influenced" refers to the effects or changes in an individual's behavior~~, ~~attitudes~~, ~~or mental health status that result from interactions with~~, ~~or the influence of, their peers~~. ~~Peers can be individuals within the same age group~~, ~~social circle~~, ~~or community~~. ~~This concept recognizes that individuals can be significantly impacted by the people they associate with~~, ~~and that peer relationships can play a crucial role in one's mental health.~~

	~~Peer influence can be both positive and negative. On the positive side, peers can provide support, understanding, and companionship, which can be beneficial for mental well~~-~~being. They can encourage healthy behaviors, offer validation~~, ~~and serve as a source of motivation for making positive life changes~~. ~~Peer support groups, for example, are often used in preventative mental health care to encourage positive mental health practices and provide a sense of community~~.

	~~On the negative side, peer influence can lead to the adoption~~ of ~~harmful behaviors or attitudes, such as substance abuse, risky behaviors, or the perpetuation~~ of ~~stigma around mental health issues~~. ~~It can contribute to stress~~, ~~anxiety~~, ~~and depression, especially if an individual is pressured to conform to group norms that are misaligned with their values or well-being~~.

	~~Preventative mental health care aims to leverage the positive aspects of peer influence while mitigating the negative ones~~. This could involve creating environments where positive peer interactions are encouraged, educating individuals about the impact of peer influence, and developing strategies to resist negative peer pressure. ~~The goal is to enhance protective factors and reduce risk factors associated with mental health issues, promoting overall mental well~~-~~being within communities and groups.~~

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	Two things should be said plainly. First, both the finished trial and the design logic behind it come from one research group; there is no independent replication of "booster plus months of reinforcement" as a mechanism. Second, the 2020 trial's own data show that sustained contact did not rescue every outcome — occupational problems faded regardless. Consistency appears to help, but the evidence here does not show it as a guarantee.		Two things should be said plainly. First, both the finished trial and the design logic behind it come from one research group; there is no independent replication of "booster plus months of reinforcement" as a mechanism. Second, the 2020 trial's own data show that sustained contact did not rescue every outcome — occupational problems faded regardless. Consistency appears to help, but the evidence here does not show it as a guarantee.

	'''Context: Consistency in Schools'''		=== '''Context: Consistency in Schools''' ===

	Schools cannot rely on a single well-run assembly or workshop; the evidence points to sustained delivery across years. Wyman's (2014) developmental model is explicitly staged over a child's school career: "(1) childhood programs to strengthen a broad set of self-regulation processes... through family and school-based programs, followed by (2) adolescent programs that leverage system-level influences (e.g., peer norms)" (p. S253). This is consistency built into the sequence itself, not a single intervention repeated unchanged. Implementation research reinforces the same point at the level of delivery quality: Santiago-Rosario et al. (2023) find that "Tier 1 PBIS implemented with fidelity improves valued outcomes like student social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health, academic achievement, and attendance" (p. 8) the qualifier "with fidelity" is doing real work, since a framework applied inconsistently is not the same programme as one sustained properly, even if the materials are identical.		Schools cannot rely on a single well-run assembly or workshop; the evidence points to sustained delivery across years. Wyman's (2014) developmental model is explicitly staged over a child's school career: "(1) childhood programs to strengthen a broad set of self-regulation processes... through family and school-based programs, followed by (2) adolescent programs that leverage system-level influences (e.g., peer norms)" (p. S253). This is consistency built into the sequence itself, not a single intervention repeated unchanged. Implementation research reinforces the same point at the level of delivery quality: Santiago-Rosario et al. (2023) find that "Tier 1 PBIS implemented with fidelity improves valued outcomes like student social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health, academic achievement, and attendance" (p. 8) the qualifier "with fidelity" is doing real work, since a framework applied inconsistently is not the same programme as one sustained properly, even if the materials are identical.

	'''Context: Consistency among Remote Workers in IT and Technology'''		=== '''Context: Consistency among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===

	For distributed software teams, consistency cannot mean merely staying on the same team for a long time, because duration alone does not appear to build trust. Herbsleb and Mockus (2003) followed two distributed departments for years and found no improvement: "high levels of interdependence were maintained for the entire 2.5 - 3.5 years, showing no consistent reduction" in the coordination problems distance caused (Discussion). Distant colleagues still reported markedly less "teamness" than local ones, a gap the authors trace to how "distance interfered with the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Discussion) despite years of continuous working contact. This suggests consistency requires the right kind of repeated contact, not simply a long-running team roster; no study in this population has tested whether a Wingman-Connect-style deliberate touchpoint schedule, rather than passive tenure, would close that gap.		For distributed software teams, consistency cannot mean merely staying on the same team for a long time, because duration alone does not appear to build trust. Herbsleb and Mockus (2003) followed two distributed departments for years and found no improvement: "high levels of interdependence were maintained for the entire 2.5 - 3.5 years, showing no consistent reduction" in the coordination problems distance caused (Discussion). Distant colleagues still reported markedly less "teamness" than local ones, a gap the authors trace to how "distance interfered with the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Discussion) despite years of continuous working contact. This suggests consistency requires the right kind of repeated contact, not simply a long-running team roster; no study in this population has tested whether a Wingman-Connect-style deliberate touchpoint schedule, rather than passive tenure, would close that gap.

	'''References'''		=== '''References''' ===

	Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>		Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>

Evidence-Based Methodology

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	Two honest caveats belong here, and naming them is itself part of the methodology. The Wingman-Connect trial is a randomized design and carries strong evidentiary weight, but it comes from a single research programme. The McNeill et al. study is a single-cohort, pre-post design with no control group, a weaker tier of evidence than a trial; its conclusion about curriculum should be read as a prompt for further testing, not as settled fact. Grading the strength of evidence, rather than treating all findings as equal, is not a footnote to evidence-based methodology. It is the methodology.		Two honest caveats belong here, and naming them is itself part of the methodology. The Wingman-Connect trial is a randomized design and carries strong evidentiary weight, but it comes from a single research programme. The McNeill et al. study is a single-cohort, pre-post design with no control group, a weaker tier of evidence than a trial; its conclusion about curriculum should be read as a prompt for further testing, not as settled fact. Grading the strength of evidence, rather than treating all findings as equal, is not a footnote to evidence-based methodology. It is the methodology.

	==== '''Context: Evidence-Based Methodology in Schools''' ====		=== '''Context: Evidence-Based Methodology in Schools''' ===
	Schools need a way to judge whether a claimed evidence base actually meets the standard, not just whether it sounds plausible. Santiago-Rosario et al. (2023) provide exactly this for one common schoolwide framework, concluding after systematic review that "PBIS can be designated an evidence-based practice for reducing exclusionary discipline and improving social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes" (p. 1). That is a formal grading of evidence strength, not a general endorsement. The same standard applies to network-based prevention: Wyman (2014) reports that "training for high school student peer leaders to prepare them to modify norms through their natural social networks (Sources of Strength) has increased schoolwide help-seeking acceptability, coping norms, and engagement of adults to help suicidal peers" (p. S254) — a specific, tested claim, not an assumption. A school adopting either framework should expect this same level of documented evidence, not take effectiveness on faith.		Schools need a way to judge whether a claimed evidence base actually meets the standard, not just whether it sounds plausible. Santiago-Rosario et al. (2023) provide exactly this for one common schoolwide framework, concluding after systematic review that "PBIS can be designated an evidence-based practice for reducing exclusionary discipline and improving social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes" (p. 1). That is a formal grading of evidence strength, not a general endorsement. The same standard applies to network-based prevention: Wyman (2014) reports that "training for high school student peer leaders to prepare them to modify norms through their natural social networks (Sources of Strength) has increased schoolwide help-seeking acceptability, coping norms, and engagement of adults to help suicidal peers" (p. S254) — a specific, tested claim, not an assumption. A school adopting either framework should expect this same level of documented evidence, not take effectiveness on faith.

	==== '''Context: Evidence-Based Methodology among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ====		=== '''Context: Evidence-Based Methodology among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===
	No network-health programme for IT or software teams has been tested with a trial design comparable to Wingman-Connect's, so evidence-based methodology here means being honest about what standard of proof exists rather than borrowing one from elsewhere. The closest available evidence is observational rather than experimental. Yang et al. (2022) used a large natural experiment, not a randomized trial, to show that "firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts" (Abstract). That finding is credible and large-scale, but it documents an effect of remote work, not the impact of any specific intervention designed to counter it. Applying a network-health programme to distributed IT teams without testing it against this same bar — a comparison condition, a measured mechanism, replication beyond one firm — would be exactly the kind of unevidenced adoption this finding warns against.		No network-health programme for IT or software teams has been tested with a trial design comparable to Wingman-Connect's, so evidence-based methodology here means being honest about what standard of proof exists rather than borrowing one from elsewhere. The closest available evidence is observational rather than experimental. Yang et al. (2022) used a large natural experiment, not a randomized trial, to show that "firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts" (Abstract). That finding is credible and large-scale, but it documents an effect of remote work, not the impact of any specific intervention designed to counter it. Applying a network-health programme to distributed IT teams without testing it against this same bar — a comparison condition, a measured mechanism, replication beyond one firm — would be exactly the kind of unevidenced adoption this finding warns against.

	==== '''References''' ====		=== '''References''' ===
	McNeill, C., George, N., Stephens, U., & Walker, T. (2024). Teaching evidence-based practice to MSN, DNP and PhD students: Lessons learned. ''ABNFF Journal, 1''(1), 53–60.		McNeill, C., George, N., Stephens, U., & Walker, T. (2024). Teaching evidence-based practice to MSN, DNP and PhD students: Lessons learned. ''ABNFF Journal, 1''(1), 53–60.

Ecological Validity

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	This case is instructive precisely because it is a single, well-documented example rather than a broad literature. Wingman-Connect demonstrates what ecological validity requires, genuine structural adaptation to a population's real social organisation, but the evidence for this principle again comes from one research group's work with military populations, and has not been tested as a general design rule across other settings.		This case is instructive precisely because it is a single, well-documented example rather than a broad literature. Wingman-Connect demonstrates what ecological validity requires, genuine structural adaptation to a population's real social organisation, but the evidence for this principle again comes from one research group's work with military populations, and has not been tested as a general design rule across other settings.

	==== '''Context: Ecological Validity in Schools''' ====		=== '''Context: Ecological Validity in Schools''' ===
	Schools are where the ecologically valid design that Wingman-Connect later adapted originated. Wyman (2014) frames schools as "normative social systems... settings for universal interventions" that "serve the broadest populations" (p. S252), precisely because a school already has its own dense peer structure that an intervention can work through rather than compete with. The Sources of Strength model, which Wingman-Connect departed from for military culture, was itself built around this fit: training "high school student peer leaders to prepare them to modify norms through their natural social networks" (Wyman, 2014, p. S254). The lesson Wingman-Connect's redesign makes explicit in hindsight is that this peer-leader structure was not incidental; it was the specific feature that made the school version ecologically valid, and any future adaptation of it should treat that structure as load-bearing, not decorative.		Schools are where the ecologically valid design that Wingman-Connect later adapted originated. Wyman (2014) frames schools as "normative social systems... settings for universal interventions" that "serve the broadest populations" (p. S252), precisely because a school already has its own dense peer structure that an intervention can work through rather than compete with. The Sources of Strength model, which Wingman-Connect departed from for military culture, was itself built around this fit: training "high school student peer leaders to prepare them to modify norms through their natural social networks" (Wyman, 2014, p. S254). The lesson Wingman-Connect's redesign makes explicit in hindsight is that this peer-leader structure was not incidental; it was the specific feature that made the school version ecologically valid, and any future adaptation of it should treat that structure as load-bearing, not decorative.

	==== '''Context: Ecological Validity among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ====		=== '''Context: Ecological Validity among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===
	No study has tested whether a network-cohesion intervention like Wingman-Connect retains ecological validity when delivered to a distributed software team, so this section can only flag the risk, not resolve it. The same caution Wyman et al. (2020) raise about training that "may lack ecological validity without addressing unit functioning" applies directly here, because distributed teams function differently from colocated ones in ways that are well documented. Herbsleb and Mockus (2003) found that developers separated across sites report markedly less "teamness," a gap tied to how "distance interfered with the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Discussion). A cohesion-building programme designed for an in-person team and delivered unchanged to a distributed one would risk exactly this failure; it has not been tested either way.		No study has tested whether a network-cohesion intervention like Wingman-Connect retains ecological validity when delivered to a distributed software team, so this section can only flag the risk, not resolve it. The same caution Wyman et al. (2020) raise about training that "may lack ecological validity without addressing unit functioning" applies directly here, because distributed teams function differently from colocated ones in ways that are well documented. Herbsleb and Mockus (2003) found that developers separated across sites report markedly less "teamness," a gap tied to how "distance interfered with the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Discussion). A cohesion-building programme designed for an in-person team and delivered unchanged to a distributed one would risk exactly this failure; it has not been tested either way.

	==== '''References''' ====		=== '''References''' ===
	Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>		Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>

Prioritizing Prevention

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	This logic was tested directly. A cluster randomized trial of the Wingman-Connect programme worked with intact U.S. Air Force training classes rather than individually selected trainees, aiming to "target natural organizational groups to strengthen bonds, cohesion, and adaptive coping norms" (Wyman et al., 2020, Introduction). Benefits were "distributed across personnel with different levels of those problems at baseline," evidence that "diverse personnel benefited from the program illustrates a strength of a universal prevention strategy for military populations with members at low risk and others at higher risk who may not seek mental health services" (Wyman et al., 2020, Discussion). Because the training was built into ordinary occupational skills rather than run alongside them, the authors conclude that "universal prevention programs that support operational and suicide prevention objectives are more likely to be sustained" (Wyman et al., 2020, Discussion). Mediation analysis confirmed that cohesion itself carried the effect: "participants' perceptions of being embedded in a more cohesive, healthy class accounted for significant portions of Wingman-Connect's impact on reducing suicidal ideation and depression symptoms" (Wyman et al., 2020, Results).		This logic was tested directly. A cluster randomized trial of the Wingman-Connect programme worked with intact U.S. Air Force training classes rather than individually selected trainees, aiming to "target natural organizational groups to strengthen bonds, cohesion, and adaptive coping norms" (Wyman et al., 2020, Introduction). Benefits were "distributed across personnel with different levels of those problems at baseline," evidence that "diverse personnel benefited from the program illustrates a strength of a universal prevention strategy for military populations with members at low risk and others at higher risk who may not seek mental health services" (Wyman et al., 2020, Discussion). Because the training was built into ordinary occupational skills rather than run alongside them, the authors conclude that "universal prevention programs that support operational and suicide prevention objectives are more likely to be sustained" (Wyman et al., 2020, Discussion). Mediation analysis confirmed that cohesion itself carried the effect: "participants' perceptions of being embedded in a more cohesive, healthy class accounted for significant portions of Wingman-Connect's impact on reducing suicidal ideation and depression symptoms" (Wyman et al., 2020, Results).

	==== '''Context: Prevention in Schools''' ====		=== '''Context: Prevention in Schools''' ===
	Schools matter to prevention because childhood and adolescence are the years when most future risk takes shape. Wyman (2014) notes that "approximately one half of emotional and behavioral disorders that are well-defined risk factors for suicide have onset of symptoms by age 14 years" (p. S252). His model works in two stages: building self-regulation early through "family and school-based programs," then, in adolescence, working through "peer norms" already present in the school (Wyman, 2014, p. S253). In practice, this has meant training student peer leaders to "modify norms through their natural social networks," which "has increased schoolwide help-seeking acceptability, coping norms, and engagement of adults to help suicidal peers" (Wyman, 2014, p. S254). As a whole-school foundation for this kind of work, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports improves school climate and behaviour broadly (Santiago-Rosario et al., 2023), though it has not been tested as a suicide-prevention measure specifically.		Schools matter to prevention because childhood and adolescence are the years when most future risk takes shape. Wyman (2014) notes that "approximately one half of emotional and behavioral disorders that are well-defined risk factors for suicide have onset of symptoms by age 14 years" (p. S252). His model works in two stages: building self-regulation early through "family and school-based programs," then, in adolescence, working through "peer norms" already present in the school (Wyman, 2014, p. S253). In practice, this has meant training student peer leaders to "modify norms through their natural social networks," which "has increased schoolwide help-seeking acceptability, coping norms, and engagement of adults to help suicidal peers" (Wyman, 2014, p. S254). As a whole-school foundation for this kind of work, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports improves school climate and behaviour broadly (Santiago-Rosario et al., 2023), though it has not been tested as a suicide-prevention measure specifically.

	==== '''Context: Prevention among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ====		=== '''Context: Prevention among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ===
	No trial has tested a network-cohesion prevention programme with software teams, so this extends the same logic to a population studied only for its risk, not its remedy. Distributed software development shows what erodes when a team splits across sites: work spanning more than one location "take about two and one-half times as long to complete" as collocated work (Herbsleb & Mockus, 2003, Abstract), and separated developers report markedly less "teamness," a gap the authors link to distance disrupting "the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Herbsleb & Mockus, 2003, Discussion). A large study of Microsoft staff found remote work "caused larger increases for engineers than non-engineers" in messaging and calls, "reflective of the fact that software development teams are particularly reliant on informal communication" once carried face to face (Yang et al., 2022, Results), the cohesion Wingman-Connect targets, untested here.		No trial has tested a network-cohesion prevention programme with software teams, so this extends the same logic to a population studied only for its risk, not its remedy. Distributed software development shows what erodes when a team splits across sites: work spanning more than one location "take about two and one-half times as long to complete" as collocated work (Herbsleb & Mockus, 2003, Abstract), and separated developers report markedly less "teamness," a gap the authors link to distance disrupting "the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Herbsleb & Mockus, 2003, Discussion). A large study of Microsoft staff found remote work "caused larger increases for engineers than non-engineers" in messaging and calls, "reflective of the fact that software development teams are particularly reliant on informal communication" once carried face to face (Yang et al., 2022, Results), the cohesion Wingman-Connect targets, untested here.

	==== '''References''' ====		=== '''References''' ===
	Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>		Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>

Discovery

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	~~=== Summary: ===~~
	[[File:Relationships Reduce Pruning.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman discusses how shared experiences in trainings can allow participants to discover one another's strengths, see people in a new way, and form relationships in a more cohesive community that reduce pruning, especially for the most vulnerable.]]		[[File:Relationships Reduce Pruning.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman discusses how shared experiences in trainings can allow participants to discover one another's strengths, see people in a new way, and form relationships in a more cohesive community that reduce pruning, especially for the most vulnerable.]]
	~~Discovering how ones personal strengths are viewed by the group~~, ~~and~~ the ~~discovery of other’s~~ strengths and ~~how those strengths impact oneself and the~~ social ~~network is~~ a ~~powerful experience. When everyone’s competencies are recognized,~~ the group ~~is aware of~~ it~~'s collective strengths and the value of all members~~.		Discovery, in a network health sense, is the process by which shared activity makes people's strengths visible to each other and to themselves, in ways that private reflection alone does not produce. The mechanism is social rather than introspective: a strength becomes real to a group when the group sees it in action, not only when an individual reports having it.

	~~=== Notes~~ and ~~References~~: ~~===~~		This idea has firm roots in positive psychology's turn away from a deficit model of wellbeing. Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2000) argued that psychology had focused disproportionately on pathology and repair, at the expense of understanding what allows people and communities to flourish; their case was that identifying and cultivating strength is itself a legitimate target of intervention, not merely a byproduct of treating weakness. Peterson and Seligman's (2004) classification of character strengths built directly on this, proposing that strengths are most reliably recognised through observed behaviour in real settings — honesty in how someone handles a hard conversation, persistence in how someone works through a setback, rather than through self-report alone. This supports the Discovery thesis structurally: if strengths are legible mainly through behaviour witnessed by others, then shared activity is the mechanism through which they become visible at all.

	~~=== Autogenerated ChatGPT stuff for inspiration when you~~ are ~~stuck: ===~~		Resilience research adds the protective piece. Masten's (2001) influential account of resilience as "ordinary magic" argued that children's capacity to recover from adversity depends heavily on ordinary relational systems, being noticed, valued, and connected within family, peer, and community networks, rather than on rare individual traits. Applied to Discovery, this suggests the stakes are not merely motivational. A young person whose strengths go unseen by their group is not simply missing encouragement; they are missing one of the ordinary mechanisms through which resilience is built and maintained.

			Self-determination theory offers the last piece of the mechanism: competence, one of three basic psychological needs identified by Deci and Ryan, is satisfied not just by being skilled but by having that skill recognised within a social context. A group that becomes aware of a member's competence changes that member's felt belonging, not only their self-assessment.

	~~'''This is a placeholder page~~ for ~~testing purposes generated automatically - don't use~~ it ~~for anything important~~ - ~~if you are an editor~~, ~~please correct~~ it~~!'''~~		None of this constitutes network health-specific evidence for the Discovery finding as your toolkit frames it. These are established, adjacent literatures that would need to be tested directly against a Discovery mechanism, shared training experiences producing group-recognised strength and reduced social pruning, before this section could carry the same evidentiary weight as Prevention or Ecological Validity. Treat it as a reasoned case built from real literature, not as verified corpus evidence.

			=== '''Context: Discovery in Schools''' ===
			In a school setting, Discovery would work through activities where students see each other perform, rather than only hear each other described. Positive youth development frameworks, including Search Institute's developmental assets model (Benson), argue that young people build resilience partly through external assets, being surrounded by adults and peers who notice and name their strengths, not just through internal traits. A classroom or advisory structure that creates repeated opportunities for peers to witness one another handling a real task, leading a group project, supporting a struggling classmate and persisting through a hard problem gives Discovery a concrete mechanism in schools. This remains a design inference from general youth development literature, not a school-tested Discovery intervention.

	In the ~~context of preventative mental health care~~, ~~"discovery" refers~~ to ~~the process~~ of ~~identifying and understanding one~~'s ~~own mental health needs, strengths, vulnerabilities,~~ and ~~the factors that contribute~~ to ~~one’s mental well-being~~. ~~It encompasses self~~-~~awareness~~ and ~~the exploration of personal experiences~~, ~~emotions~~, ~~and behaviors~~. ~~This process~~ is crucial for early identification of mental health issues, fostering resilience, and developing effective coping strategies. Discovery enables individuals to recognize when they might need help, understand their own patterns of thought and behavior, ~~and make informed decisions about seeking support and engaging in self-care practices~~.		=== '''Context: Discovery among Remote IT and Technology Workers''' ===
			Discovery is structurally harder in distributed software teams, because the ordinary channels through which competence becomes visible watching someone debug under pressure, overhearing them help a colleague, depend on physical proximity that remote work removes. This connects to a corpus finding used elsewhere in this project: Herbsleb and Mockus (2003) found that distributed colleagues report far less awareness of each other's expertise and are more likely to be "excluded from information which was shared by... coworkers" than colocated ones. Discovery in this population would need a deliberate substitute: structured show-and-tell sessions, visible contribution logs, peer recognition rituals, or the incidental witnessing that collocated teams get for free. No study tests this directly; it is an inference from a documented gap, not a tested intervention.

	~~Key aspects of discovery in preventative mental health care include~~:		=== '''References''' ===
			Benson, P. L. (2006). ''All kids are our kids: What communities must do to raise caring and responsible children and adolescents'' (2nd ed.). Jossey-Bass/Willey

	~~# Self-Reflection: Engaging in introspection to understand one’s feelings, thoughts~~, ~~and behaviors~~. ~~This can help individuals identify stressors or triggers that affect their mental health~~.		Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). The "what" and "why" of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. ''Psychological Inquiry, 11''(4), 227–268. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_01</nowiki>
	~~# Awareness of Mental Health: Gaining knowledge about mental health conditions~~, ~~symptoms~~, ~~and the continuum of mental well-being~~. ~~This awareness is fundamental for recognizing signs of distress in oneself or others~~.
	~~# Identification~~ of ~~Strengths and Coping Strategies~~: ~~Discovering personal strengths and effective coping mechanisms that can be used to manage stress, adversity,~~ and ~~emotional challenges.~~
	~~# Understanding~~ the ~~Impact~~ of ~~Lifestyle: Exploring how various aspects of one’s lifestyle~~, ~~such as sleep, nutrition, physical activity, and social connections~~, ~~affect mental health~~. ~~This can lead to the adoption of healthier habits that support mental well-being.~~
	~~# Recognition of the Need for Help~~: ~~Learning to recognize when it is necessary to seek professional help or support from others, which is a critical step in addressing mental health issues proactively~~.
	# Exploration of Resources: Identifying and exploring available mental health resources, including support networks, professional services, and informational materials that can aid in prevention and early intervention.

	~~The discovery process in preventative mental health care is not just an individual endeavor but can also be facilitated by external support from trusted adults~~, ~~peers~~, and ~~mental health professionals~~. ~~Through education~~, ~~counseling~~, ~~and supportive interactions~~, ~~these figures can help individuals navigate the discovery process~~, ~~encouraging a proactive approach to mental health care that emphasizes early recognition~~, ~~self~~-~~care~~, and ~~the seeking of appropriate support when needed~~.		Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>

			Masten, A. S. (2001). Ordinary magic: Resilience processes in development. ''American Psychologist, 56''(3), 227–238. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.56.3.227</nowiki>

			Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). ''Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification''. Oxford University Press / American Psychological Association.

			Seligman, M. E. P., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000). Positive psychology: An introduction. ''American Psychologist, 55''(1), 5–14. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.55.1</nowiki>.

Consistency

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	~~=== Summary ===~~
	[[File:Consistency.mp4\|thumb\|On the finding that consistency and repeated contact develops trust and is important to success when training. Quote from Dr. Peter Wyman, in interview with Tim McGowan.]]		[[File:Consistency.mp4\|thumb\|On the finding that consistency and repeated contact develops trust and is important to success when training. Quote from Dr. Peter Wyman, in interview with Tim McGowan.]]
	~~A key finding of Social Network Health approaches is that implementations that have many touch points across~~ a delivery, ~~usually over years, during which strong relationships can be formed, is key to the advancement and development of~~ trust and ~~understanding between trainers, peers, and mentors - lending to deeper sharing and more advanced skill building. Consistent programming probably has many other benefits, from~~ the ~~emotional willingness to invest to~~ the practical reductions in friction and tooling time in training sessions. This stands in stark opposition to many preventative health care programs that are largely one-time deliveries and do not form lasting relationships and do not change culture.		Consistency does not simply mean repeating a programme. It means deliberately maintaining contact after the initial delivery ends, so that trust and effect do not fade the moment participants walk out of the room.

	~~=== Notes~~ and ~~References ===~~		Wyman et al. (2020) built this into Wingman-Connect's design rather than treating it as an afterthought. Both training arms "had a 1-hour booster session, plus text messages," and "participants in both conditions were invited to receive training-specific informational and interactive text messages for 6 months" (Interventions). The trial's own results suggest why this matters. The benefit on depression symptoms "was maintained at 6 months," including "lower likelihood of elevated depression... over the full study period," while "the benefit of the training on occupational problems did not extend past 1 month" (Results, Discussion). The pattern is suggestive rather than proven, but it points the same direction: the outcome supported by six months of reinforcement held; the one without it faded.

	~~Submitted~~ to the ~~National Institute~~ of ~~Mental Health, PAR21-130, 10/13/2022~~		The same research programme has since built sustained contact even further into its next study. A currently active trial, "Career Enhancement Training Study Delivered Across Career Phases" (University of Rochester, Wyman, PI), asks participants to "complete a survey today... and another survey at 6 and 12 months," with "informational text messages (approximately 1 per week) that reinforce training concepts" across the full year. This is worth noting plainly: it is a live study with no outcome data yet, so it cannot be cited as evidence of effect. What it shows is a deliberate design choice — the same team choosing to extend touchpoints across a full year rather than treating one training block as sufficient.

	~~'''Data-informed implementation preparation~~.~~'''~~		There is a useful, if less rigorous, way to describe what consistency is protecting against. List (2022), writing for a general audience rather than presenting original research, calls it a "voltage drop": "when a seemingly promising idea loses efficacy or profitability as it expands." That is not evidence specific to network health, but it names the failure mode consistency exists to prevent: an intervention that works once and then quietly stops working as time, distance, or scale erodes it.

	~~A “voltage drop”~~ and ~~poor sustainment are common~~ as ~~interventions transition from controlled efficacy trials~~ to ~~regular use. Conversely~~, ~~scaled out interventions are more impactful with careful preparation using implementation science frameworks~~.		Two things should be said plainly. First, both the finished trial and the design logic behind it come from one research group; there is no independent replication of "booster plus months of reinforcement" as a mechanism. Second, the 2020 trial's own data show that sustained contact did not rescue every outcome — occupational problems faded regardless. Consistency appears to help, but the evidence here does not show it as a guarantee.

	'''~~JAMA Open Network, October, 2020~~'''		'''Context: Consistency in Schools'''

	~~Wingman~~-~~Connect’s group training design ecologically valid~~ and ~~appealing for participants~~. ~~Wingman~~-~~Connect development benefited from strong organizational collaboration~~, ~~resulting in an ecologically valid program~~.		Schools cannot rely on a single well-run assembly or workshop; the evidence points to sustained delivery across years. Wyman's (2014) developmental model is explicitly staged over a child's school career: "(1) childhood programs to strengthen a broad set of self-regulation processes... through family and school-based programs, followed by (2) adolescent programs that leverage system-level influences (e.g., peer norms)" (p. S253). This is consistency built into the sequence itself, not a single intervention repeated unchanged. Implementation research reinforces the same point at the level of delivery quality: Santiago-Rosario et al. (2023) find that "Tier 1 PBIS implemented with fidelity improves valued outcomes like student social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health, academic achievement, and attendance" (p. 8) the qualifier "with fidelity" is doing real work, since a framework applied inconsistently is not the same programme as one sustained properly, even if the materials are identical.

	~~=== Autogenerated ChatGPT stuff ===~~		'''Context: Consistency among Remote Workers in IT and Technology'''

	In the ~~context of preventative mental health care~~, ~~"consistency" refers~~ to ~~the steady~~ and ~~reliable application~~ of ~~strategies, practices, and support mechanisms aimed at promoting mental well~~-~~being and preventing mental health issues~~. ~~Consistency is critical across various aspects of preventative care~~, ~~including~~ the ~~implementation of programs~~, the ~~delivery of services, and~~ the ~~practices adopted~~ by individuals ~~for managing stress~~, ~~emotional well~~-~~being, and overall mental health. Consistency helps to establish~~ a ~~stable environment that can enhance the effectiveness of preventative measures~~, ~~contribute to the development of healthy routines~~, ~~and support the maintenance of positive mental health outcomes over time~~.		For distributed software teams, consistency cannot mean merely staying on the same team for a long time, because duration alone does not appear to build trust. Herbsleb and Mockus (2003) followed two distributed departments for years and found no improvement: "high levels of interdependence were maintained for the entire 2.5 - 3.5 years, showing no consistent reduction" in the coordination problems distance caused (Discussion). Distant colleagues still reported markedly less "teamness" than local ones, a gap the authors trace to how "distance interfered with the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Discussion) despite years of continuous working contact. This suggests consistency requires the right kind of repeated contact, not simply a long-running team roster; no study in this population has tested whether a Wingman-Connect-style deliberate touchpoint schedule, rather than passive tenure, would close that gap.

	~~Key aspects where consistency is crucial in preventative mental health care include:~~		'''References'''

	~~# Program Implementation: Consistent application of preventative programs across settings (such as schools~~, ~~workplaces, and communities) ensures that individuals have ongoing access to mental health education, resources, and support~~. ~~This helps to normalize conversations about mental health and embeds mental well-being into the fabric of daily life~~.		Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>
	~~# Service Delivery: Providing mental health services in a consistent manner~~, ~~such as regular check-ins or therapy sessions~~, ~~helps build trust and reliability, making it more likely for individuals to engage with and benefit from these services~~. ~~Consistency in care can also lead to better management~~ of ~~chronic conditions~~ and ~~early detection of emerging issues~~.
	~~# Behavioral Practices: Encouraging consistent daily routines that include healthy behaviors~~, ~~such as regular exercise, sufficient sleep, and mindfulness practices~~, ~~can significantly contribute to preventing mental health problems~~. ~~Consistency in these practices allows individuals to build resilience and manage stress more effectively~~.
	# Communication and Support: Offering consistent support and open lines of communication within families, schools, and workplaces fosters a sense of safety and belonging, which are essential for mental well-being. ~~Knowing that support is reliably available can encourage individuals to seek help when needed~~.
	# Policy and Advocacy: Consistent advocacy for mental health awareness, funding, and policy development is necessary to ensure that mental health care remains a priority and that resources are allocated to preventative measures.

	~~Consistency in preventative mental health care creates~~ a ~~predictable~~ and ~~supportive environment that can reduce uncertainty and anxiety~~, ~~which are often precursors to more serious mental health issues~~. ~~It helps in reinforcing positive habits~~, ~~strengthening coping strategies~~, and ~~building a foundation for long~~-~~term mental resilience~~. ~~For preventative strategies~~ to ~~be most~~ effective, ~~they need to be applied consistently~~, ~~adapted as necessary to meet changing needs~~, ~~and integrated into~~ the ~~broader health care and community support systems~~.		List, J. A. (2022, April 19). ''The five vital signs of a scalable idea and how to avoid a voltage drop''. Behavioral Scientist. <nowiki>https://behavioralscientist.org/</nowiki>

			Santiago-Rosario, M. R., McIntosh, K., Izzard, S., Cohen Lissman, D., & Calhoun, E. (2023). ''Is positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) an evidence-based practice?'' Center on PBIS, University of Oregon.

			University of Rochester, Department of Psychiatry. (2025). ''Consent form: Career enhancement training study delivered across career phases'' (STUDY00008549) [Clinical trial consent document]. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT05967364.

			Wyman, P. A. (2014). Developmental approach to prevent adolescent suicides: Research pathways to effective upstream preventive interventions. ''American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47''(3, Suppl. 2), S251–S256. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2014.05.039</nowiki>

			Wyman, P. A., Pisani, A. R., Brown, C. H., Yates, B., Morgan-DeVelder, L., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Gibbons, R. D., Caine, E. D., Petrova, M., Neal-Walden, T., Linkh, D. J., Matteson, A., Simonson, J., & Pflanz, S. E. (2020). Effect of the Wingman-Connect upstream suicide prevention program for Air Force personnel in training: A cluster randomized clinical trial. ''JAMA Network Open, 3''(11), e2022532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22532</nowiki>

Evidence-Based Methodology

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	~~=== Summary ===~~
	[[File:18 Evidence of Impact.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman, in interview with Tim McGowan, says that rigorously tested programs that follow key findings of evidence offer our best chances of success in prevention. ]]		[[File:18 Evidence of Impact.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman, in interview with Tim McGowan, says that rigorously tested programs that follow key findings of evidence offer our best chances of success in prevention. ]]
	~~Social Network Health approaches require~~ an ~~ongoing~~ commitment to ~~follow documented evidence of impact by studying research and implementation~~ in ~~the field of preventative mental health care~~.		Evidence-based methodology means treating a programme's impact as a question to test, not an assumption to repeat. A design can look sound on paper and still fail once measured, so the commitment is to keep measuring, not to stop once a plausible theory is in place.

	~~=== References~~ and ~~Notes ===~~		Wyman et al. (2020) built this commitment into the Wingman-Connect trial from the outset. The study was not a simple before-and-after check: it was "conducted from October 2017 to October 2019" as a trial with an active comparison condition, and its stated aims went beyond outcomes alone. "The primary hypothesis tested was that Wingman-Connect would reduce suicidal ideation, depression symptoms, and job-related problems. A secondary objective was testing the guiding network health theoretical model" (Methods). That second aim matters: the trial was designed to test whether the proposed mechanism was real, not only whether the numbers moved.

			The results honoured that distinction. Rather than stopping at "it worked," the authors traced why: "participants' perceptions of being embedded in a more cohesive, healthy class accounted for significant portions of Wingman-Connect's impact on reducing suicidal ideation and depression symptoms" (Results). Evidence-based methodology, on this model, means testing the theory of change itself, not just its endpoint.

	~~'''Effect~~ of the ~~Wingman~~-~~Connect Upstream Suicide Prevention Program for Air Force Personnel in Training~~. ~~A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial'''~~		This same commitment shows up in an unrelated setting, evidencing that it is a methodology and not a single result. McNeill et al. (2024) evaluated a graduate nursing course on evidence-based practice using a validated instrument before and after teaching, and reported that "the results indicated a significant difference pre vs post course in the areas of EBP use... EBP Skill... and EBP Communication." But they did not stop at the positive result: the same data showed that "22 out of the 24 students that reported feeling overwhelmed by the course were MSN students," and the authors concluded plainly that "the facilitation, evaluation, and redesign of EBP curriculum need to be informed by data gathered from formal assessments." A programme that works overall can still surface a problem in the same measurement; evidence-based methodology means acting on both findings, not just the favourable one.

	~~'''JAMA Open Network~~, ~~October~~, ~~2020'''~~		Two honest caveats belong here, and naming them is itself part of the methodology. The Wingman-Connect trial is a randomized design and carries strong evidentiary weight, but it comes from a single research programme. The McNeill et al. study is a single-cohort, pre-post design with no control group, a weaker tier of evidence than a trial; its conclusion about curriculum should be read as a prompt for further testing, not as settled fact. Grading the strength of evidence, rather than treating all findings as equal, is not a footnote to evidence-based methodology. It is the methodology.

	'''~~Research Outcomes –~~ Evidence Based ~~Key Findings include:~~'''		==== '''Context: Evidence-Based Methodology in Schools''' ====
			Schools need a way to judge whether a claimed evidence base actually meets the standard, not just whether it sounds plausible. Santiago-Rosario et al. (2023) provide exactly this for one common schoolwide framework, concluding after systematic review that "PBIS can be designated an evidence-based practice for reducing exclusionary discipline and improving social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes" (p. 1). That is a formal grading of evidence strength, not a general endorsement. The same standard applies to network-based prevention: Wyman (2014) reports that "training for high school student peer leaders to prepare them to modify norms through their natural social networks (Sources of Strength) has increased schoolwide help-seeking acceptability, coping norms, and engagement of adults to help suicidal peers" (p. S254) — a specific, tested claim, not an assumption. A school adopting either framework should expect this same level of documented evidence, not take effectiveness on faith.

	* Increased class cohesion, ~~morale~~, ~~positive bonds~~, and ~~acceptability~~ of ~~help seeking~~		==== '''Context: Evidence-Based Methodology among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ====
	* Reduction in suicide risks scores, ~~depression~~, ~~and reactivity to anger~~		No network-health programme for IT or software teams has been tested with a trial design comparable to Wingman-Connect's, so evidence-based methodology here means being honest about what standard of proof exists rather than borrowing one from elsewhere. The closest available evidence is observational rather than experimental. Yang et al. (2022) used a large natural experiment, not a randomized trial, to show that "firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed, with fewer bridges between disparate parts" (Abstract). That finding is credible and large-scale, but it documents an effect of remote work, not the impact of any specific intervention designed to counter it. Applying a network-health programme to distributed IT teams without testing it against this same bar — a comparison condition, a measured mechanism, replication beyond one firm — would be exactly the kind of unevidenced adoption this finding warns against.
	* Nearly 50% reduction in occupational impairment (corrective training, ~~negative counseling)~~

	'''~~Measurable Impact on both Protective Factors~~ and ~~Risk Factors~~'''		==== '''References''' ====
			McNeill, C., George, N., Stephens, U., & Walker, T. (2024). Teaching evidence-based practice to MSN, DNP and PhD students: Lessons learned. ''ABNFF Journal, 1''(1), 53–60.

	~~Wingman~~-~~Connect was tested using the~~ ''~~'gold~~-~~standard research design with Airmen in Training~~''~~' from 2017-2019 (randomized controlled trial). Training showed statistically significant increases in group and individual level protective factors~~, ~~as well as reductions in negative outcomes including and depression and suicide risk~~.		Santiago-Rosario, M. R., McIntosh, K., Izzard, S., Cohen Lissman, D., & Calhoun, E. (2023). ''Is positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) an evidence-based practice?'' Center on PBIS, University of Oregon.

	~~Social Science & Medicine Social Science &~~ Medicine ~~296~~ (~~2022~~) ~~114737~~		Wyman, P. A. (2014). Developmental approach to prevent adolescent suicides: Research pathways to effective upstream preventive interventions. ''American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47''(3, Suppl. 2), S251–S256. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2014.05.039</nowiki>

	~~'''~~Wingman-Connect ~~Program increases social integration~~ for Air Force personnel ~~at elevated suicide risk~~: ~~Social network analysis of a~~ cluster ~~RCT~~'''		Wyman, P. A., Pisani, A. R., Brown, C. H., Yates, B., Morgan-DeVelder, L., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Gibbons, R. D., Caine, E. D., Petrova, M., Neal-Walden, T., Linkh, D. J., Matteson, A., Simonson, J., & Pflanz, S. E. (2020). Effect of the Wingman-Connect upstream suicide prevention program for Air Force personnel in training: A cluster randomized clinical trial. ''JAMA Network Open, 3''(11), e2022532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22532</nowiki>

	~~The current attention on the detection and treatment of suicidal military members is necessary~~, ~~but ultimately insufficient to meet the needs of many suicidal service members~~. ~~Results from our study suggest that the status quo progression for many service members at elevated suicide risk is one of worsening disconnection~~, ~~evidenced by the trajectory of declining valued connections found in the active control condition~~.		Yang, L., Holtz, D., Jaffe, S., Suri, S., Sinha, S., Weston, J., Joyce, C., Shah, N., Sherman, K., Hecht, B., & Teevan, J. (2022). The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers. ''Nature Human Behaviour, 6'', 43–54. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01196-4</nowiki>

	~~Evidence based practice is defined as a deliberate and conscientious approach to problems olving within clinical practice~~. ~~An evidence-based approach embodies the best evidence from well designed studies while taking into consideration patient values, preferences~~, ~~and a clinician’s expertise in making decisions regarding patient’s care (Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt~~, ~~2019).~~

	~~Melnyk et al~~. (2012) describes evidence based practice (EBP) as a clinical decision-making tool that improves clinical outcomes. EBP has a proven track record of improving quality of care and patient outcomes (McGinty and Anderson, 2008). Evidence-based practice as a problem-solving approach fits with Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations that all health professionals translate the research into practice (Institute of Medicine, ~~2003)~~.

	~~It is also important for faculty to incorporate quality improvement and evidence-based practice in the facilitation~~, ~~evaluation~~, ~~and redesign of curriculum~~. Knowledge gained from quality improvement initiatives and evidence-based assessments of teaching allow for informed decisions that are based on quantitative and qualitative data thus providing a better assessment of teaching effectiveness and will serve as a consistent guide for improvement and a measure of teaching success.

	~~McNeill~~, C., ~~George~~, N., ~~Stephens~~, U., & ~~Walker~~, T. (~~2024~~). ~~Teaching Evidence-Based Practice to MSN, DNP and PhD students: Lessons Learned~~. ''~~ABNFF Journal''~~, ''~~1''(1), 53–60.~~

	~~'''This is where the book ends maturity model, pre and post should go.'''~~

	~~'''PBIS:'''~~

	~~'''Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a widely implemented framework for promoting positive school systems and fostering students' social~~, ~~emotional, behavioral, and mental health~~.~~'''~~

	~~'''~~<nowiki>https://~~cdn~~.~~prod~~.~~website~~-~~files.com/5d3725188825e071f1670246/651c4d7d5174726ec6da1d86_Is%20Positive%20Behavioral%20Interventions%20and%20Supports%20(PBIS)%20an%20Evidence~~-~~Based%20Practice.pdf~~</nowiki>~~'''~~

Ecological Validity

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Prioritizing Prevention

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	[[File:Universal Prevention.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman describes the import of prioritizing universal approaches to prevention for community mental health.]]		[[File:Universal Prevention.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman describes the import of prioritizing universal approaches to prevention for community mental health.]]
	~~An appeal~~ to ~~logic~~, ~~supported by evidence, can convincingly demonstrate that prevention~~ is ~~indeed~~ the ~~most effective method for mitigating mental~~ health ~~issues in a wide variety of community contexts. Social Network Health~~ approaches~~, which emphasize community relationships, are suited for prevention by nature and design. Network health interventions target natural organizational groups~~ to ~~strengthen bonds, cohesion, and adaptive coping norms, all of which are proven targets for upstream~~ suicide prevention~~. The side effects~~ of ~~focusing on prevention are, in sum, positive~~ for ~~entire community mental health - keeping the community out of emergency situations and recharging their energy through positive relations. In the absence of effective screeners, or~~ risk ~~indicators available through diagnosis~~, ~~broad based prevention reaches an entire community to reduce risk factors~~ and ~~increase protective factors. Preventive Interventions delivered~~ in ~~social systems are therefore the only likely way to reach most community members who are in need~~, ~~and a powerful way to gain the benefits of community health~~.		Prevention works best when it changes the environment people already belong to, rather than waiting to find and treat people once they are already struggling. This is the central argument behind network health approaches to suicide prevention: instead of screening individuals for risk, they strengthen the relationships and group bonds that already exist in a school, workplace, or team.
	[[File:Prevention or Intervention.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman explains that a "preventatative intervention" that engages a community as a whole and creates natural networks through shared experience can build protective factors into the community.\|left]]		[[File:Prevention or Intervention.mp4\|thumb\|Dr Peter Wyman explains that a "preventatative intervention" that engages a community as a whole and creates natural networks through shared experience can build protective factors into the community.\|left]]
	Most existing intervention programming focuses on detecting and remediating risk after suicidal individuals are identified.<sup> </sup> Although a critical part of an integrated system of care, that approach is insufficient on its own. According to Wyman (~~2020~~)~~, using~~ a ~~network health framework~~, ~~that strengthens positive social bonds and building healthy norms that incentivize adaptive coping, is a prevention model that has shows promising benefits~~. ~~Expanding the focus on modifying “upstream”~~ risk and protective processes—before the emergence of suicidal ~~behavior—stands~~ in contrast to current prevention programming focused on adult gatekeepers and screening ~~after risks are identified~~. (~~Wyman~~ 2014)		Wyman (2014) frames this as a shift toward "upstream" prevention, "modifying... risk and protective processes—before the emergence of suicidal behaviour," a design that "stands in contrast to current youth suicide prevention programming focused on identifying and treating individuals who are already suicidal or at high risk by training adult gatekeepers and screening" (p. S252). The case for this shift is not only conceptual. Wyman (2014) points to specific limits on identify-and-treat strategies, including "limited ability to identify specific individuals who will die by suicide" and "limited evidence that use of usual mental health treatment services will reduce suicide risk" (p. S252). Because these limits are structural, no improvement to an individual-level service resolves them; the population that needs protecting is always larger than the population any screening process will flag.

	~~Upstream interventions~~, ~~delivered through social systems in childhood and early adolescence~~, ~~have~~ the ~~potential for reducing population~~-level ~~suicide rates. By decreasing the number of adolescents with mental emotional and behavioral problems, as well as creating~~ social ~~environments that expose adolescents to positive coping norms~~, ~~increase youth~~-~~adult connections,~~ and ~~reducing the impact adverse experiences~~. ~~(Wyman 2014~~) ~~Childhood and adolescence are key suicide “prevention window” periods. Approximately~~ one ~~half of emotional and behavioral disorders that are well-defined~~ risk ~~factors for suicide have onset of symptoms by age 14 years~~.		This is why network health approaches treat the group itself, not the individual, as the target of intervention. In Wyman's (2014) words, "system-level interventions modify social-ecologic contexts, which have risk-protective effects above and beyond individual factors" (p. S252), in plain terms, making a class, team, or unit more cohesive protects everyone in it, including people no one has flagged as at risk.

	~~=== Research References to integrate: ===~~		This logic was tested directly. A cluster randomized trial of the Wingman-Connect programme worked with intact U.S. Air Force training classes rather than individually selected trainees, aiming to "target natural organizational groups to strengthen bonds, cohesion, and adaptive coping norms" (Wyman et al., 2020, Introduction). Benefits were "distributed across personnel with different levels of those problems at baseline," evidence that "diverse personnel benefited from the program illustrates a strength of a universal prevention strategy for military populations with members at low risk and others at higher risk who may not seek mental health services" (Wyman et al., 2020, Discussion). Because the training was built into ordinary occupational skills rather than run alongside them, the authors conclude that "universal prevention programs that support operational and suicide prevention objectives are more likely to be sustained" (Wyman et al., 2020, Discussion). Mediation analysis confirmed that cohesion itself carried the effect: "participants' perceptions of being embedded in a more cohesive, healthy class accounted for significant portions of Wingman-Connect's impact on reducing suicidal ideation and depression symptoms" (Wyman et al., 2020, Results).
	~~[https://www~~.~~ncbi~~.~~nlm~~.~~nih~~.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7578767/#:~:text=That%20diverse%20personnel%20benefited%20from%20the%20program%20illustrates%20a%20strength%20of%20a%20universal%20prevention%20strategy%20for%20military%20populations%20with%20members%20at%20low%20risk%20and%20others%20at%20higher%20risk%20who%20may%20not%20seek%20mental%20health%20services. ~~1] - That~~ diverse personnel benefited from the program illustrates a strength of a universal prevention strategy for military populations with members at low risk and others at higher risk who may not seek mental health services.

	~~[https~~:~~//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7578767/#:~:text~~=~~The%20dual%20benefits,~~to~~%20be%20sustained~~. 2] - ~~The dual benefits~~ for ~~occupational functioning and mental health underline a strength~~ of ~~upstream prevention implemented before the detection of serious suicidal behavior~~: ~~skills that strengthened~~ the ~~trainee’s capability~~ to ~~meet job~~-~~related challenges also reduced depression~~ and suicidal ~~ideation~~. ~~Universal prevention programs that support operational~~ and suicide prevention ~~objectives are more likely to be sustained~~.		==== '''Context: Prevention in Schools''' ====
			Schools matter to prevention because childhood and adolescence are the years when most future risk takes shape. Wyman (2014) notes that "approximately one half of emotional and behavioral disorders that are well-defined risk factors for suicide have onset of symptoms by age 14 years" (p. S252). His model works in two stages: building self-regulation early through "family and school-based programs," then, in adolescence, working through "peer norms" already present in the school (Wyman, 2014, p. S253). In practice, this has meant training student peer leaders to "modify norms through their natural social networks," which "has increased schoolwide help-seeking acceptability, coping norms, and engagement of adults to help suicidal peers" (Wyman, 2014, p. S254). As a whole-school foundation for this kind of work, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports improves school climate and behaviour broadly (Santiago-Rosario et al., 2023), though it has not been tested as a suicide-prevention measure specifically.

	'''Prevention in ~~schools:~~'''		==== '''Context: Prevention among Remote Workers in IT and Technology''' ====
			No trial has tested a network-cohesion prevention programme with software teams, so this extends the same logic to a population studied only for its risk, not its remedy. Distributed software development shows what erodes when a team splits across sites: work spanning more than one location "take about two and one-half times as long to complete" as collocated work (Herbsleb & Mockus, 2003, Abstract), and separated developers report markedly less "teamness," a gap the authors link to distance disrupting "the usual stages by which individuals become coherent groups or teams" (Herbsleb & Mockus, 2003, Discussion). A large study of Microsoft staff found remote work "caused larger increases for engineers than non-engineers" in messaging and calls, "reflective of the fact that software development teams are particularly reliant on informal communication" once carried face to face (Yang et al., 2022, Results), the cohesion Wingman-Connect targets, untested here.

	~~Modern conceptions of mental health have transitioned from a predominantly problem reduction focus to a wellness promotion focus (Suldo & Shaffer~~, ~~2008)~~. ~~Thus~~, ~~rather than exclusively targeting symptom reduction in individuals with mental illness~~, ~~mental health services have gravitated towards prevention services that promote general wellness of the population~~ (~~Prinz & Sanders, 2007~~). ~~To attend to these issues, school-wide interventions based~~ on ~~the public health prevention model emerged in schools~~, ~~most notably in the form of positive behavior interventions and support~~ (~~PBIS; Smith~~, ~~Molina, Massetti, Waschbush, & Pelham, 2007)~~. ~~Tier 1 systems, data, and practices support everyone across all settings~~. ~~They establish the foundation for delivering regular, proactive support and preventing unwanted behaviors~~.		==== '''References''' ====
			Herbsleb, J. D., & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development. ''IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29''(6), 481–494. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2003.1205177</nowiki>

			Santiago-Rosario, M. R., McIntosh, K., Izzard, S., Cohen Lissman, D., & Calhoun, E. (2023). ''Is positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) an evidence-based practice?'' Center on PBIS, University of Oregon. <nowiki>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375487373_Is_Positive_Behavioral_Interventions_and_Supports_PBIS_an_Evidence-Based_Practice</nowiki>

			Wyman, P. A. (2014). Developmental approach to prevent adolescent suicides: Research pathways to effective upstream preventive interventions. ''American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47''(3, Suppl. 2), S251–S256. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2014.05.039</nowiki>

	'''[https://~~pubmed~~.~~ncbi~~.~~nlm~~.~~nih~~.~~gov~~/~~31392720/ Peer-adult network structure and suicide attempts in 38 high schools: implications for network-informed suicide prevention (10,291 students)] '''~~		Wyman, P. A., Pisani, A. R., Brown, C. H., Yates, B., Morgan-DeVelder, L., Schmeelk-Cone, K., Gibbons, R. D., Caine, E. D., Petrova, M., Neal-Walden, T., Linkh, D. J., Matteson, A., Simonson, J., & Pflanz, S. E. (2020). Effect of the Wingman-Connect upstream suicide prevention program for Air Force personnel in training: A cluster randomized clinical trial. ''JAMA Network Open, 3''(11), e2022532. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22532</nowiki>

	~~'''Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry : (2019)~~, ~~Peter A~~. ~~Wyman~~, ~~Trevor A~~. ~~Pickering~~, ~~Anthony R~~. ~~Pisani~~, ~~et al~~.'''		Yang, L., Holtz, D., Jaffe, S., Suri, S., Sinha, S., Weston, J., Joyce, C., Shah, N., Sherman, K., Hecht, B., & Teevan, J. (2022). The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers. ''Nature Human Behaviour, 6'', 43–54. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01196-4</nowiki>

	'~~''[~~https://~~pubmed~~.~~ncbi~~.~~nlm.nih.gov~~/~~33084901~~/ ~~Effect of the Wingman-Connect Upstream Suicide Prevention Program for Air Force Personnel in Training. A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial]'''~~

	~~'''JAMA Open Network, October, 2020'''~~

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	=== Project History ===		=== Project History ===
	This project was conceived in 2021 to document successful implementations in Social Network Health. [https://socialnetwork.health The Social Network Health project] has been filming teachers, students, administrators, counselors, researchers and others since early 2022 - that is ongoing as of this writing. In the process, we have collected research and observed common language, practices, and wisdom that is best compiled and presented in this living, mixed media format. ~~We will be launching~~ the ~~first useful release~~ of this ~~site in 2024~~.		This project was conceived in 2021 to document successful implementations in Social Network Health. [https://socialnetwork.health The Social Network Health project] has been filming teachers, students, administrators, counselors, researchers and others since early 2022 - that is ongoing as of this writing. In the process, we have collected research and observed common language, practices, and wisdom that is best compiled and presented in this living, mixed media format.

			In 2024, we changed the contextual focus of this project from Education to '''Remote Digitally Connected Communities.'''

	To learn more about the team, mission, and values of the Social Network Health Project, see [https://socialnetwork.health/about the about page on our main website.]		To learn more about the team, mission, and values of the Social Network Health Project, see [https://socialnetwork.health/about the about page on our main website.]