Today, we’re launching the first Anxiety Leeds impact report.
We regularly take feedback from our group members and survey them to see what is working and what is not. However, this is the first time we have systematically reviewed the results and published a report about it.
Here are the headline figures:
- We support a wide range of ages across both genders
- We support a broad range of anxiety conditions, often compounded by depression and physical health issues
- 71% feel less alone after attending our meetings
- 29% feel a lot more positive about life
- 40% even see a reduction in day-to-day anxiety, despite us not being a treatment group
This is set on a background of us working with people who have anxiety, and therefore have a negative outlook on the world, compounded by also suffering from depression, which is the case of 62% of our members.
Here is the headline graph:
It is clear that not everyone sees a benefit in attending our group. This is consistent with other mental health programmes, all of which typically experience high drop-out rates.
The majority of people who do attend do see a benefit. This benefit increases the more they attend. This result should be viewed with caution: although it is highly plausible that there is a causative effect here, it is not direct evidence of one.
We’re also delivering an internal plan to group members on how we can continue to improve the group as we go forward.
You can download the full report here.
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