What is/are the population parameter(s) in the hypothesis? What was the researcher's conclusion about the hypothesis? Was there a p-value, a confidence interval, etc. that led you to this conclusion? You won't often find a hypothesis stated like this in research: You'll have to dig around in the introduction and the results to determine what the researchers are testing!

Table 2: Mental Health Symptom Distribution (number and percentage) at Follow-up, by Group for Treatment Assignment

Symptoms Assigned to control Assigned to treatment p-value for difference

(n=128) (n=109)

High stress symptoms	29(22.7%)	34(31.2%	0.14
High depression symptoms	37(28.9%)	26(23.9%)	0.38
High stress, low depression	8 (6.0%)	17 (15.3%)	0.02
High depression, low stress	16 (12.0%)	9 (8.1%)	0.31
High depression and high stress	21 (15.8%)	17 (15.3%)	0.73
No depression or stress	82 (61.7%)	66 (59.5%)	0.73

Psychological health is becoming an increasingly impor- tant component of the concept of health in the develop- ing world [65]. Our findings suggest that one mechanism

used to reduce the economic stress of extremely poor indi- viduals can have mixed effects on their levels of psycho- logical stress and symptomatology. Our data support the

notion that mental health should be included as a meas- ure of success (or failure) when examining potential tools

for poverty alleviation. Further longitudinal research is needed to replicate the findings of the present study, and future research should use quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how small individual loans affect the

roles, daily activities, and concerns of individual and fam- ilies to help explain the linkages between access to loans

and mental health outcomes. The differential effects for men and women found here should also be investigated further. Such research should ideally include assessments of economic resources and psychological functioning at baseline and at multiple points during and after the loan period if feasible.