Response to mental illness questions in the vignettes
Participants were asked to read the two vignettes and
responded to the questions followed. Table 2 showed the
change in the recognition of symptom in the vignettes.
In the vignette of schizophrenia, prior to the training,
4% participants picked out all the psychotic symptoms
presented in the vignette; this number increased to 7.1%
after the training (x2 = 0.57, P = 0.453). With respect to
the bipolar disorder vignette, the proportion of people
who correctly recognized the psychotic symptoms
climbed from 11.1% at the baseline to 22.2% after the
training (x2 = 4, P = 0.043, Cramer Φ = 0.2).
Table 3 showed the Change in the recognition of diagnosis
in the vignettes. Before the training, 62.6% participants