Kitchener Betty A, Jorm Anthony F
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
BMC Psychiatry. 2002 Oct 1;2:10. doi: 10.1186/1471-244x-2-10.
Many members of the public have poor mental health literacy. A Mental Health First Aid training course was developed in order to improve this. This paper describes the training course and reports an evaluation study looking at changes in knowledge, stigmatizing attitudes and help provided to others.
Data are reported on the first 210 participants in public courses. Evaluation questionnaires were given at the beginning of courses, at the end and at 6 months follow-up. Data were analyzed using an intention-to-treat approach.
The course improved participants' ability to recognize a mental disorder in a vignette, changed beliefs about treatment to be more like those of health professionals, decreased social distance from people with mental disorders, increased confidence in providing help to someone with a mental disorder, and increased the amount of help provided to others.
Mental Health First Aid training appears to be an effective method of improving mental health literacy which can be widely applied.
许多公众的心理健康素养较低。为此开发了一门心理健康急救培训课程。本文介绍了该培训课程，并报告了一项评估研究，该研究着眼于知识、污名化态度的变化以及向他人提供的帮助。
报告了公共课程中首批210名参与者的数据。在课程开始时、结束时和6个月随访时发放评估问卷。采用意向性分析方法对数据进行分析。
该课程提高了参与者在案例中识别精神障碍的能力，使对治疗的看法更接近健康专业人员的看法，减少了与精神障碍患者的社会距离，增强了向精神障碍患者提供帮助的信心，并增加了向他人提供的帮助量。
心理健康急救培训似乎是一种提高心理健康素养的有效方法，可广泛应用。
