Stan Kutcher|Heather Gilberds|Catherine Morgan|Robin Greene|Kenneth Hamwaka|Kevin Perkins
Improving Malawian teachers' mental health knowledge and attitudes: an integrated school mental health literacy approach
Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre|Dalhousie University|Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre|Dalhousie University|Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre|Dalhousie University
mental health literacy foundational mental health promotion prevention stigma reduction care integrated school mental health literacy interventions may offer effective sustainable approach enhancing mental health literacy educators students globallythrough grand challenges canada funded initiative called integrated approach addressing issue youth depression malawi tanzania culturally adapted previously demonstrated effective canadian school mental health curriculum resource guide use malawi african guide malawi version agmv evaluated impact enhancing mental health literacy educators teachers youth club leaders 35 schools 15 outofschool youth clubs central region malawi pre posttest study designs used assess mental health literacy knowledge attitudes 218 educators immediately following completion 3day training programme use agmvresults demonstrated highly significant substantial improvement knowledge p 00001 116 attitudes p 00001 079 pertaining mental health literacy study participants significant differences outcomes related sex locationthese positive results suggest approach integrates mental health literacy existing school curriculum may effective significant sustainable method enhancing mental health literacy educators malawi results found sustained time demonstrated effective extended students model may useful widely applicable method improving mental health literacy among educators students across africa