Improving responses to depression and related disorders: evaluation of a innovative, general, mental health care workers training program

Table 6 Comparing results on the confidence scale and social distance scale with those found in other studies

Confidence
Paper	Training received	Percentage of participants scoring >2		Range
		Prior to training	After training
[9]	Mental Health First aid training	62.2%	83.3%	21.1%
[28]	Mental health first aid training - workforce	54.5%	74.5%	20.0%
Current	Core MAP training	65.5%	93.0%	27.5%
		Mean score on the confidence measure
		Prior to training	After training	Range
[27]	Mental health first aid training - rural area	3.13	3.39	.27
Current	Core MAP training	2.83	3.49	.66
Social Distance
Paper	Subjects	Average score per question*		Range
		Pre	Post
[9]	Mental health first aid training participants	1.6	1.5	.1
[28]	Mental health first aid training participants- workplace Setting	1.7	1.5	.2
[27]	Mental health first aid training - rural area	1.6	1.5	.1
[29]	Mental health first aid training - in drought affected area	2.0	1.6	.4
[26]	Nationwide representative sample USA	2.25	-	-
[30]	Mental health first aid training - expatriate Chinese community	2.0	1.8	.2
Current	Participants in Map Training course	2.2**	2.0**	.2

*The higher the score the more social distance the trainee wanted from someone with a mental illness
**These scores have been reversed to facilitate comparison.

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