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| Title |
Mental health first aid training for the public: evaluation of effects on knowledge, attitudes and helping behavior
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, October 2002
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-244x-2-10 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Betty A Kitchener, Anthony F Jorm |
| Abstract |
Many members of the public have poor mental health literacy. A Mental Health First Aid training course was developed in order to improve this. This paper describes the training course and reports an evaluation study looking at changes in knowledge, stigmatizing attitudes and help provided to others. Data are reported on the first 210 participants in public courses. Evaluation questionnaires were given at the beginning of courses, at the end and at 6 months follow-up. Data were analyzed using an intention-to-treat approach. The course improved participants' ability to recognize a mental disorder in a vignette, changed beliefs about treatment to be more like those of health professionals, decreased social distance from people with mental disorders, increased confidence in providing help to someone with a mental disorder, and increased the amount of help provided to others. Mental Health First Aid training appears to be an effective method of improving mental health literacy which can be widely applied. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 349 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Uganda | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 338 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 59 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 51 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 44 | 13% |
| Researcher | 33 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 6% |
| Other | 63 | 18% |
| Unknown | 78 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 104 | 30% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 45 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 38 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 25 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 42 | 12% |
| Unknown | 86 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 July 2023.
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#1,406
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