Table 5.
Mean scores of the Community Attitudes towards Mental Illness subscales and comparison of the differences in the averages of the control and intervention groups according to whether or not they knew someone with mental illness
| Baseline |
Post-intervention |
Difference between baseline and post-intervention |
T-students | P value | |||||
| Mean (SD) |
Mean (SD) |
Mean (SD) |
Mean (SD) |
Mean (SD) |
Mean (SD) |
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| Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | ||||
| Knows someone | Authoritarianism | 25.97 (3.27) | 26.88 (3.39) | 26.43 (4.06) | 24.98 (4.14) | -0.47 (3.01) | 1.905 (4.01) | 4.511 | 0.000 |
| Benevolence | 21.53 (4.31) | 21.62 (3.92) | 21.89 (4.3) | 21.61 (4.28) | -0.36 (2.98) | 0.01 (3.51) | 0.571 | 0.569 | |
| Social restrictiveness | 20.19 (4.42) | 19.57 (3.96) | 21.81 (5.44) | 19.81 (4.52) | -1.62 (3.92) | -0.24 (3.57) | 2.388 | 0.018 | |
| Community mental health ideology | 24.24 (5.48) | 22.49 (4.9) | 24.5 (5.80) | 22.03 (5.57) | -0.26 (3.35) | 0.46 (4.37) | 1.039 | 0.300 | |
| Does not know anyone | Authoritarianism | 27.35 (3.13) | 28.52 (4.38) | 27.3 (3.80) | 26.61 (4.07) | 0.05 (2.68) | 1.91 (4.24) | 2.679 | 0.010 |
| Benevolence | 22.2 (3.61) | 23.06 (4.36) | 22.48 (4.24) | 23.67 (3.28) | -0.28 (2.99) | -0.61 (3.63) | -0.437 | 0.663 | |
| Social restrictiveness | 21.93 (4.47) | 21.52 (4.03) | 22.83 (4.75) | 21.82 (3.26) | -0.9 (3.7) | -0.30 (3.39) | 0.783 | 0.435 | |
| Community mental health ideology | 24.7 (4.6) | 24.27 (5.82) | 25.32 (5.16) | 24 (5.29) | -0.62 (3.72) | 0.27 (4.81) | 1.114 | 0.268 | |