2.7. Outcome Measures
mental illness, Depression, psychiatric illness, DSS, schizophrenia
DISEASES, DISORDERS
Knowledge was measured by assessing participants’ ability to identify a mental health problem and answer questions based on the content of the MHFA/ensa course. The questionnaire contained a short vignette presenting schizophrenia based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) (APA, 2000) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) (WHO, 2016) [Attitude was measured by assessing (a) stigmatizing attitudes based on the first part of the Depression Stigma Scale (DSS) on personal stigma, developed by Griffiths et al. [Behavior was measured by assessing participants’ confidence to help (5-point Likert scale), participants’ intention to help someone with mental illness (5-point Likert scale), and participants’ “first aid” actions helping someone with a psychiatric illness [These outcomes, drawn from the original surveys conducted in Australia, were translated from their original English version to French, following Wild et al.’s process of well-principled translation [Inter-rater reliability had significant to strong intra-class correlations for the six MHFA components (all Participants’ mental health status was assessed by measuring their symptoms of quality of life with the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12) [Demographic questions included 14 items designed by the project leader and investigator that asked about subjects’ date of birth, gender, nationality, marital status, spoken languages, employment status (e.g., if they have a student/part-time job), housing situation, parental levels of education, and if they had already attended training on any mental health topics.