Table 3 Results of Cochran's Q and Mcnenar's Testing for questions about participants attitudes towards people who have a mental health problem or disorder.
|  | % of desired responses | Cochran's Q | McNemar's Test (α = 0.05) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Pre | Post | Follow-up | Significance (α = 0.05) | Pre – Post p value | Post – Follow-up p value | Pre – Follow-up p value |
Questions that the course is designed to promote agreement or strong agreement with. | |||||||
1 | Mental illness can happen to anybody | ||||||
| Â | 99 | 97 | 99 | 0.165 | - | - | - |
10 | As far as possible, mental health services should be provided through community based facilities | ||||||
| Â | 74 | 80 | 74 | 0.191 | - | - | - |
13 | People with schizophrenia can work in regular jobs | ||||||
| Â | 81 | 91 | 86 | 0.003 | 0.004 | 0.1430 | .077 |
14 | I could be friends with someone who has had schizophrenia | ||||||
| Â | 94 | 97 | 97 | 0.174 | - | - | - |
Questions that the course is designed to promote disagreement or strong disagreement with. | |||||||
2 | People who have a mental illness are more likely than other people to be dangerous | ||||||
| Â | 70 | 88 | 71 | 0.000 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.860 |
3 | There is something about people with mental illness that makes it easy to tell them from normal people | ||||||
| Â | 82 | 85 | 84 | 0.710 | - | - | - |
4 | Once a person has a mental illness they are always unwell | ||||||
| Â | 90 | 94 | 91 | 0.228 | - | - | - |
5 | People who have had mental illness are never going to contribute much to society | ||||||
| Â | 97 | 98 | 97 | 0.641 | - | - | - |
6 | Someone with a mental illness is more likely than other people to have poor personal hygiene | ||||||
| Â | 85 | 82 | 85 | 0.625 | - | - | - |
7 | If I got a mental illness I would feel I was to blame | ||||||
| Â | 78 | 79 | 78 | 0.947 | - | - | - |
8 | It is frightening to think of people with mental illness living in residential neighbourhoods | ||||||
| Â | 91 | 94 | 94 | 0.390 | - | - | - |
9 | I would not want to live next door to someone who has been mentally ill | ||||||
| Â | 95 | 92 | 93 | 0.549 | - | - | - |
11 | As soon as a person shows signs of a mental illness, he/she should be hospitalised | ||||||
| Â | 93 | 95 | 91 | 0.157 | - | - | - |
12 | I would feel uncomfortable talking to someone with a mental illness | ||||||
| Â | 93 | 91 | 93 | 0.676 | - | - | - |
15 | I would not want to have a colleague who had schizophrenia | ||||||
| Â | 88 | 88 | 93 | 0.102 | - | - | - |
16 | I would not want any of my children to get into a relationship with someone who had schizophrenia, even if the person had recovered | ||||||
| Â | 66 | 67 | 66 | 0.947 | - | - | - |