Effectiveness of an intervention for reducing social stigma towards mental illness in adolescents

Table 1 Mean scores of the Community Attitudes towards Mental Illness subscales and comparison of the differences in the averages of the control and intervention groups

	Baseline		Post-intervention		Difference between baseline and post-intervention		T-students	P value
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
	Control	Intervention	Control	Intervention	Control	Intervention
Authoritarianism	26.61 (3.23)	27.26 (3.75)	26.79 (3.98)	25.32 (4.09)	-0.30 (2.83)	1.94 (4.03)	5.186	0.000
Benevolence	21.74 (4.00)	21.98 (4.08)	22.14 (4.28)	22.14 (4.13)	-0.27 (2.91)	-0.14 (3.55)	0.330	0.742
Social restrictiveness	20.89 (4.51)	20.07 (4.10)	22.14 (5.16)	20.34 (4.33)	-1.25 (3.79)	-0.20 (3.49)	2.355	0.019
Community mental health ideology	24.43 (5.20)	23.00 (5.22)	24.79 (5.60)	22.53 (5.52)	-0.37 (3.55)	0.40 (4.40)	1.572	0.117