Bella-Awusah Tolulope, Adedokun Babatunde, Dogra Nisha, Omigbodun Olayinka
a Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine , University of Ibadan, University College Hospital , Ibadan , 200212 Nigeria.
J Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2014;26(3):207-15. doi: 10.2989/17280583.2014.922090.
Available evidence suggests that children hold negative views about mental illness. Studies show that it is possible for schools and mental health services to jointly undertake child and adolescent mental health promotion. This study aimed to assess the impact of a school based mental health awareness programme aimed at increasing mental health literacy and reducing negative views about persons with mental illness.
A total of 154 secondary school students in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria, were allocated into an intervention and a control group. Students in the intervention group received a three-hour mental health awareness session. All students completed a pre-, immediate post, and six month post-intervention questionnaire on their views about mental health and illness.
There was a significant difference in the mean knowledge scores between the intervention and the control group post-intervention, but no significant differences in attitude and social distance scores.
Brief training workshops appear able to produce small but positive changes in the mental health knowledge of young Nigerians.
现有证据表明儿童对精神疾病持有负面看法。研究表明学校和心理健康服务机构有可能共同开展儿童和青少年心理健康促进工作。本研究旨在评估一项以学校为基础的心理健康意识项目的影响，该项目旨在提高心理健康素养并减少对精神疾病患者的负面看法。
尼日利亚西南部伊巴丹的154名中学生被分为干预组和对照组。干预组的学生参加了一场为时三小时的心理健康意识课程。所有学生在干预前、干预后即刻以及干预后六个月完成了一份关于他们对心理健康和疾病看法的问卷。
干预后，干预组和对照组的平均知识得分存在显著差异，但态度和社会距离得分无显著差异。
简短的培训工作坊似乎能够在尼日利亚年轻人的心理健康知识方面产生虽小但积极的变化。
