Effect of health education program on improving knowledge and atitude towards mental health stigma and professional help-seeking among adolescents

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 3 Differences in beliefs towards mental illness between intervention and control groups (yes)

	Intervention group	Control group	p^¥
Is like any other disease
Before	52 (46.4%)	64 (57.1%)	0.109
After	108 (96.4%)	67 (69.8%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	0.375
Due to possession by evil spirits
Before	43 (38.4%)	51 (45.5%)	0.279
After	7 (6.3%)	46 (41.1%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	0.125
Due to chemical imbalance in the brain
Before	72 (64.3%)	73 (65.2%)	0.889
After	88 (78.6%)	73 (65.2%)	0.02*
P^MCN	0.002*	>0.999
A punishment of God
Before	42 (37.5%)	52 (46.4%)	0.176
After	22 (19.6%)	50 (44.6%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	0.5
Due to stress or traumatic events
Before	74 (66.1%)	65 (58%)	0.215
After	93 (83.0%)	66 (58.9%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999
Due to genetic inheritance
Before	50 (44.6%)	40 (35.7%)	0.173
After	72 (64.3%)	43 (38.4%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	0.375
Can be treated
Before	52 (46.4%)	54 (48.2%)	0.789
After	88 (78.6%)	57 (50.9%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999
Medication cause addiction
Before	91 (81.3%)	84 (75%)	0.258
After	76 (67.9%)	84 (75%)	0.237
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999

P^MCN, for McNemar test; ^¥p, for chi-square test
* p < 0.05 is statistically significant, ** p = 0.001 is statistically highly significant