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Many struggle with the weight of farming or crofting life. Photo: SRUC.
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Two different ways of supporting the mental health and wellbeing of Scottish farmers and crofters will be explored in a new project.
The study, led by Stirling University and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), seeks to gather views on, and determine the acceptability of, two possible interventions to support mental health.
The first is the delivery of emotional and social support, including financial advice, and the second is online psychological therapy which has been specifically developed for the agricultural sector.
Call for rural views on mental health support
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