Olayinka Atilola|Olatunde Ayinde|Felix-Kingsley Obialo|Sunday Oladotun Adeyemo|Dapo Adebowale Adegbaju|Robert G. Anthony
Towards school-based mental health programs in Nigeria: the immediate impact of a depression-literacy program among school-going adolescents and their teachers
Lagos State University|University of Ibadan|University of Ibadan|Olabisi Onabanjo University|Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital
depressionliteracy foundational requirement symptom recognition positive attitude helpseeking poor among adolescents nigeria study therefore aims determine impact schoolbased training program depressionliteracy among cohort highschool students teachers southwest nigeriaan adapted version break free depression 4module depression awareness curriculum staff students implemented among students teachers pairedsample ttest used assess domainspecific knowledge attitude confidence impact training comparing baseline immediate within week training postscoresa total 3098 students 294 teachers 21 schools across three states southwest nigeria successfully completed training significant positive difference p 005 posttest knowledge attitude confidence among students observed among teachers except attitude positive change reach significant level p 006 statistically significant calculated effect size eta squared highest knowledge students 007 p 0001 teachers 008 p 0000 least attitude students 0003 p 0002 teachers 0085 p 006 multiple regression analyses result showed level prescores predicted magnitude change domains depressionliteracy p 005 controlling age gender type school among students teachersschoolbased depressionliteracy programs lead significant positive change knowledge attitude confidence students teachers