Improving the capacity of community-based workers in Australia to provide initial assistance to Iraqi refugees with mental health problems: an uncontrolled evaluation of a Mental Health Literacy Course

Table 2 Variables measured across time points

Variable measured	Pre-training	Post-training	6-month
Demographics	✓
Recognition of PTSD	✓	✓	✓
Recognition of depression	✓	✓	✓
Knowledge of helpfulness of interventions for PTSD and depression	✓	✓	✓
Social distance towards PTSD and depression	✓	✓	✓
Stigma towards PSTD and depression
1. Weak-not-sick subscale	✓	✓	✓
2. Dangerous/unpredictable subscale	✓	✓	✓
Offer help to a person with PTSD and depression related problems	✓	✓	✓
Confidence helping a person with PTSD and depression related problems	✓	✓	✓
Helping intentions	✓	✓	✓
General mental health knowledge	✓	✓	✓
Helping behaviours	✓		✓

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