2.1. Study design
REGRESSION
A prospective, controlled, non-randomized, pseudonymized interventional study was carried out at the HHU Medical Faculty to test these hypotheses. A positive ethics vote was given by the Medical Faculty’s Ethics Commission (study no.: 2019-466).As part of the study, the change in medical students’ stigmatization of the mentally ill was compared between the IG and CG. To do this, the level stigmatization was measured in both groups using the MICA-4 scale (see section 2.3) and compared for potential changes during the week-long period and between the IG and CG. A mixed ANOVA (between-within) was applied as the statistical design.The potential predictors of age, sex, presence of mental illness in the family or circle of friends and acquaintances (Multiple linear regression and moderator analysis were carried out to analyze the degree of the influence exerted on the stigmatization.