Background
Methods
Study design and participants
Vignettes
Measurement
Knowledge of mental health symptoms
Help seeking attitude on common mental health disorders
Potential confounders
Statistical analysis
Results
Sample characteristics
Sociodemographic variables | Overall (N = 4033) | |
---|---|---|
Mean | SD | |
Age | 46.1 | 17.3 |
12–17 (%) | 3.7 | – |
18–44 (%) | 38.5 | – |
45–64 (%) | 40.4 | – |
65–75 (%) | 17.4 | – |
Female (%) | 58 | – |
Education attainment | ||
Primary level or below | 10.3 | – |
Secondary level | 41.9 | – |
Tertiary level | 47.9 | – |
Marital status | ||
Single (%) | 31.5 | – |
Married (%) | 59.3 | – |
Divorced (%) | 4.9 | – |
Widowed (%) | 4.3 | – |
Employment status | ||
Working (%) | 55.3 | – |
Not working (%) | 27 | – |
Retired (%) | 17.7 | – |
K6 score (Range 0–28) | 5.6 | 4.0 |
≥ 13 (%) | 5.9 | – |
SWEMWBS score (Range 0–35) | 18.8 | 4.4 |
Personal experience of mental health problems (%) | 10.4 | – |
Knowing someone with mental health problems (%) | 56.9 | – |
Public knowledge of mental health disorders
Socio-demographic correlates of poor mental health knowledge
Variable | Knowledge score | T-test/ANOVA | |
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Mean | SD | p-value | |
Gender | |||
Male | 3.6 | 1.5 | < .001 |
Female | 3.8 | 1.4 | |
Age | |||
12–17 | 3.4 | 1.2 | |
18–44 | 3.6 | 1.3 | |
45–64 | 3.8 | 1.5 | < .001 |
65–75 | 3.9 | 1.6 | |
Education | |||
Primary or below | 4.0 | 1.5 | < .001 |
Secondary | 3.8 | 1.5 | |
Tertiary or above | 3.6 | 1.4 | |
Marital status | |||
Married | 3.7 | 1.5 | 1.74 |
Not married | 3.7 | 1.3 | |
Employment status | |||
Working | 3.7 | 1.4 | .037 |
Not working | 3.8 | 1.4 |