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 4 Differences in attitude towards mental illness between intervention and control groups (yes)

	Intervention group	Control group	p
Can study at university
Before	56 (50%)	67 (59.8%)	0.14
After	84 (75%)	69 (61.6%)	0.031*
P^MCN	<0.001**	0.824
Can work in regular jobs
Before	68 (60.7%)	69 (61.6%)	0.891
After	99 (88.4%)	70 (62.5%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999
Can get married
Before	61 (54.5%)	69 (61.6%)	0.279
After	92 (82.1%)	71 (63.4%)	0.002*
P^MCN	<0.001**	0.5
Can have children
Before	70 (62.5%)	68 (60.7%)	0.783
After	98 (87.5%)	70 (62.5%)	<0.001**
P^MCN	<0.001**	0.5
Are dangerous
Before	82 (73.2%)	75 (67%)	0.307
After	59 (52.7%)	76 (67.9%)	0.02*
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999
Maintain friendship with patient with mental illness
Before	57 (50.9%)	58 (51.8%)	0.894
After	74 (66.1%)	59 (52.7%)	0.041*
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999
Study/work with a patient with a mental illness
Before	75 (67%)	76 (67.9%)	0.887
After	89 (79.5%)	75 (67%)	0.035*
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999
Marry a patient with a mental illness
Before	55 (49.1%)	61 (54.5%)	0.422
After	68 (60.7%)	61 (54.5%)	0.344
P^MCN	<0.001**	>0.999
Be ashamed
Before	63 (56.3%)	76 (67.9%)	0.073
After	59 (52.7%)	76 (67.9%)	0.02*
P^MCN	0.481	>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