Table 6. Assessment of the effect of Lay psychosocial community workers (LPCWs) on the Total Mental Health Symptoms (TMHS) scale on CETA participants in Buenaventura and Quibdó.
| Lay Psychosocial Community Workers | TMHS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Change+ | IC 95% | % change* | p | |
| Buenaventura (n = | ||||
| 21 | -0.46 | -0.73; -0.18 | -15.3% | 0.001 |
| 22 | -0.88 | -1.13; -0.63 | -29.3% | <0.0001 |
| 23 | -0.52 | -0.8; -0.25 | -17.3% | <0.0001 |
| 24 | -0.41 | -1.04; 0.22 | -13.7% | 0.203 |
| 27 | -0.53 | -1.57; 0.5 | -17.7% | 0.315 |
| 28 | -0.37 | -0.65; -0.09 | -12.3% | 0.009 |
| 98 | 0.07 | -0.25; 0.38 | 2.3% | 0.681 |
| Quibdó | ||||
| 11 | -0.2 | -0.44; 0.05 | -6.7% | 0.122 |
| 12 | -0.03 | -0.39; 0.34 | -1.0% | 0.875 |
| 13 | -0.24 | -0.51; 0.02 | -8.0% | 0.076 |
| 14 | -0.002 | -0.28; 0.28 | -0.1% | 0.986 |
| 15 | -0.07 | -0.36; 0.22 | -2.3% | 0.626 |
+. Data shown are the estimated of TMHS’s change when the intervention is compared with the control group and the confidence intervals at 95% using mixed effect models controlled by age, genre, and marital status, clustered by LPCW.
*. Change of scale’s percentage: