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Table 4.

Correlates of continuum belief of mental disorders (N = 500)

		β	95% CI		p-value
Age group	<21 years	Ref.	-	-	-
Age group	21 years and above	−0.090	−0.337	0.158	0.476
Gender	Female	Ref.	-	-	-
Gender	Male	−0.005	−0.257	0.246	0.966
Ethnicity	Chinese	Ref.	-	-	-
	Malay	0.009	−0.230	0.248	0.940
	Indian and Others	−0.054	−0.331	0.222	0.700
Monthly household income	Below 2000	Ref.	-	-	-
	2000–3999	0.039	−0.194	0.272	0.743
	4000 and above	−0.073	−0.303	0.158	0.535
Education	Vocational	Ref.	-	-	-
	Diploma	0.161	−0.125	0.448	0.269
	Tertiary	0.059	−0.307	0.426	0.750
Stage of nursing education	1^st year	Ref.	-	-	-
	2^nd year	−0.299	−0.595	−0.003	0.047
	3^rd year	−0.061	−0.458	0.336	0.763
	4^th year	−0.431	−0.832	−0.030	0.035
	5^th year	0.227	−0.372	0.826	0.457
Lecture and small group teaching	Attended	Ref.	-	-	-
Lecture and small group teaching	Not attended	−0.103	−0.376	0.169	0.456
Clinical placement	Attended	Ref.	-	-	-
Clinical placement	Not attended	0.129	−0.167	0.426	0.393
Vignette type	Schizophrenia	Ref.	-	-	-
	Depression	0.415	0.116	0.714	0.007
	Dementia	0.234	−0.064	0.532	0.123
	OCD	0.449	0.156	0.742	0.003
	Alcohol abuse	0.262	−0.032	0.557	0.081
Has experience dealing with someone having problems similar to “X”	No	Ref.	-	-	-
	Yes	−0.133	−0.339	0.072	0.202
Has friends and family with problems similar to “X”	No	Ref.	-	-	-
Has friends and family with problems similar to “X”	Yes	0.413	0.189	0.638	<0.001

CI confidence interval, β beta coefficient