Needs Assessment Regarding "Mental Well-being-enhancing" Programs for Soon-to-be and (Recently) Retired Individuals

Primary outcomes

1. Background information

   Time frame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes

   Personal information (self-developed questionnaire): age, gender identity, cultural background, education level, financial situation (strained to comfortable), type of municipality (rural to large city).

2. Background information: transition to retirement and retirement status

   Time frame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes.

   Questions on retirement status and transition (self-developed): current retirement status (yes/no and duration); work related stress before retirement (5 Likert scale questions); transition (unvoluntary/voluntary, early retirement, panned/unplanned); outlook on retirement (positive to negative)

3. Experience with transition to retirement

   Time frame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes

   self-developed questionnaire based on Floyd et al., 1992 and Wells et al., 2006: rating impact of 21 aspects on their transition to retirement (5-point Likert scale; no impact to very strong impact); emotional impact of retirement

4. Experience with retirement: language, framing and identity

   Time frame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes

   self-developed questionnaire: preferred terminology (senior, elderly, retired,...); outlook on retirement (statements to be rated on 5-point Likert scale - totally disagree to totally agree)

5. Experienced needs

   Time frame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes

   self-developped questionnaire: social netwerk (very broad social netwerk to feeling isolated); 9 domains to be rated on whether they needed support (needed and received, needed but did not receive, not needed);

6. Knowledge and use of existing support and resources

   Time frame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes

   self-developed questionnaire: indicating to what degree (5-point Likert scale) they know, have used or would use a list of existing support resources (11 items). Open question for alternatives; framing: would they use these initiatives if directed at 'seniors' or 'elderly'; barriers to using existing resources (to be chosen from a list of 12 +14 +16 items or 'other'); facilitators to using existing resources (to be chosen from a list of 11 items or 'other'); preferences in activities or resources (format, to be chosen from a list of 7 items); to what degree do they find 3 new types of help appealing

7. Communication and implementation

   Time frame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 10-15 minutes

   self-developed questionnaire: through whom would they like to find out about activities or resources (7 options + 'other'); through which channels would they like to find out about activities or resources (7 options + 'other'); at what time of their transition to retirement would they like to find out about activities or resources (9 options)