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

Table 7 Comparing results on the community mental health ideology scale with those found in other studies

Paper	Subjects	Means available for	Average score per question	Range
[25]	Toronto residents	Male	2.6*	.1
		Female	2.7*
		Married	2.6*	.2
		Widowed	2.6*
		Divorced	2.8*
		Separated	2.8*
[31]	Undergraduate students at large midwestern American University	Family member mental illness	3.4	.7
		Work with those with mental illness	3.8
		Shown -classes	3.5
		Shown -electronic media	3.1
		Shown- print media	3.7
[24]	Undergraduate students from introductory psychology classes	Stigma - given fact orientated mental illness articles	3.3	.8
		Control - given two general health articles	2.5
		Given an article that addressed misconceptions about	2.4
		mental illness and correct information on mental illness	2.6
		Given an article that discussed media distortions of mental illness and target article
[32]	Undergraduate students at a large midwestern American University	Males	3.4	.2
		Females	3.6
[33]	Canadian police offices	Police offices	2.6	-
Current	Victorian(Australian) Mental health workers attending training course	Pre-test	3.8	.2
		Post-test	4.0

* This measure was originally scored in the opposite direction; it has been reverse scored here to facilitate comparisons.

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