Ramesh L Walpola, Romano A Fois, Andrew J McLachlan, Timothy F Chen
Evaluating the effectiveness of a peer-led education intervention to improve the patient safety attitudes of junior pharmacy students: a cross-sectional study using a latent growth curve modelling approach
BMJ open
present study designed validate english version mental health literacy scale persian iran statistical population consisted residents 22 municipal districts tehran iran 2018 multistage sampling methods used sample size 1026 participants filled mental health literacy scale 12item general health questionnaire multidimensional health locus control scale demographic checklist exploratory confirmatory factor analysis intraclass correlation coefficient used analysing data analyses run spss amos graphics version 18 exploratory factor analysis revealed five components 24 items explaining 2168 2024 897 648 536 variance respectively totally explained variance 6274 confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable goodnessoffit cmindf 319 gfi 0887 cfi 0893 ifi 0894 tli 0877 rmsea 0065 values cronbachs alpha showed satisfactory internal consistency two clinical correlates mental health literacy investigated structure mental health literacy scale extent different one oconnor et al study consistent definition mhl presented jorm et al first persian version mhl general population iran undoubtedly needs checked studies