Table 1.

Mean scores on the attitude towards mental illness questionnaire for future medical doctors.

Vignette	Mean score (Standard deviation)
Bunmi has been smoking cannabis daily for 1 year	-4.20 (3.10)
Osa is depressed and took a paracetamol overdose last month to kill herself	-.52 (3.54)
Blessing has been drinking heavily for 5 years and is now undergoing treatment with regular counselling	-1.63 (.24)
Ehi has HIV/AIDS. She is on regular medications and is able to keep up with work and family duties	3.54 (3.13)
Temitope has diabetes and needs to inject insulin every day and has a special diet	5.55 (3.18)
Uche has schizophrenia. He needs an injection of medication every two weeks. He was detained in hospital for several weeks 2 years ago because he was hearing voices from the devil and thought he had power to cause earthquakes.	-2.97 (3.85)
Busayo is a nice person. He attends meetings of his religious organisation regularly and carries out a lot of charitable work in the community.	6.44 (3.06)