Email interventions may offer a way to better wellbeing

By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – An email-based program may help decrease stress and increase confidence and feelings of gratitude, according to an unusual study from Finland. It’s not clear how interesting these findings are, said Dr. Giovanni A. Fava of the University of Bologna and the State University of New York at Buffalo, who was not part of the study. “People were invited to do an electronic health check on program’s internet site, where they were also offered a possibility to participate in the intervention,” said lead author Minna Torniainen-Holm of the National Institute for Health and Welfare and the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM at the University of Helsinki.