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Mental health first aid training in a workplace setting: A randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN13249129]

BACKGROUND: The Mental Health First Aid training course was favorably evaluated in an uncontrolled trial in 2002 showing improvements in participants' mental health literacy, including knowledge, stigmatizing attitudes, confidence and help provided to others. This article reports the first rand...

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Autores principales: Kitchener, Betty A, Jorm, Anthony F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC514553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15310395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-4-23
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description BACKGROUND: The Mental Health First Aid training course was favorably evaluated in an uncontrolled trial in 2002 showing improvements in participants' mental health literacy, including knowledge, stigmatizing attitudes, confidence and help provided to others. This article reports the first randomized controlled trial of this course. METHODS: Data are reported on 301 participants randomized to either participate immediately in a course or to be wait-listed for 5 months before undertaking the training. The participants were employees in two large government departments in Canberra, Australia, where the courses were conducted during participants' work time. Data were analyzed according to an intention-to-treat approach. RESULTS: The trial found a number of benefits from this training course, including greater confidence in providing help to others, greater likelihood of advising people to seek professional help, improved concordance with health professionals about treatments, and decreased stigmatizing attitudes. An additional unexpected but exciting finding was an improvement in the mental health of the participants themselves. CONCLUSIONS: The Mental Health First Aid training has shown itself to be not only an effective way to improve participants' mental health literacy but also to improve their own mental health. It is a course that has high applicability across the community.
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spelling pubmed-5145532004-08-27 Mental health first aid training in a workplace setting: A randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN13249129] Kitchener, Betty A Jorm, Anthony F BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: The Mental Health First Aid training course was favorably evaluated in an uncontrolled trial in 2002 showing improvements in participants' mental health literacy, including knowledge, stigmatizing attitudes, confidence and help provided to others. This article reports the first randomized controlled trial of this course. METHODS: Data are reported on 301 participants randomized to either participate immediately in a course or to be wait-listed for 5 months before undertaking the training. The participants were employees in two large government departments in Canberra, Australia, where the courses were conducted during participants' work time. Data were analyzed according to an intention-to-treat approach. RESULTS: The trial found a number of benefits from this training course, including greater confidence in providing help to others, greater likelihood of advising people to seek professional help, improved concordance with health professionals about treatments, and decreased stigmatizing attitudes. An additional unexpected but exciting finding was an improvement in the mental health of the participants themselves. CONCLUSIONS: The Mental Health First Aid training has shown itself to be not only an effective way to improve participants' mental health literacy but also to improve their own mental health. It is a course that has high applicability across the community. BioMed Central 2004-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC514553/ /pubmed/15310395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-4-23 Text en Copyright © 2004 Kitchener and Jorm; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Mental health first aid training in a workplace setting: A randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN13249129]
title_sort mental health first aid training in a workplace setting: a randomized controlled trial [isrctn13249129]
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC514553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15310395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-4-23
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