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ISRCTN
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ISRCTN13249129
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ClinicalTrials.gov identifier
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Public title
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Mental Health First Aid Training in a Workplace Setting
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Scientific title
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Acronym
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N/A
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Serial number at source
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N/A
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Study hypothesis
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The Mental Health First Aid course was favorably evaluated in an uncontrolled trial published in 2002. This study evaluated the same course using a wait-list control group. The major hypothesis was that Mental Health First Aid training would improve mental health literacy and helping skills relative to a wait-list control. A secondary hypothesis was that it would benefit the participants' own mental health. The trial found a number of benefits from the training, including greater confidence in providing help to others, greater likelihood of advising people to seek professional help, improved concordance with health professionals about treatments, and decreased stigmatizing attitudes. There was also an improvement in participants' mental health.
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Lay summary
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Ethics approval
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Not provided at time of registration
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Study design
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Randomised controlled trial
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Countries of recruitment
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Australia
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Disease/condition/study domain
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Mental and Behavioural Disorders
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Participants - inclusion criteria
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Employees of two Australian government departments. The trial examines the ability of participants to provide initial help to people who have a mental disorder.
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Participants - exclusion criteria
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Not provided at time of registration
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Anticipated start date
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01/04/2003
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Anticipated end date
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30/11/2003
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Status of trial
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Completed |
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Patient information material
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Target number of participants
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301
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Interventions
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Participants are randomly assigned to receive either the Mental Health First Aid course or no intervention. (The control group receives the course once the trial is finished). The Mental Health First Aid course trains members of the public to provide initial help to people in mental health crisis situations and in the early stages of a mental disorder.
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Primary outcome measure(s)
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Recognition of mental disorders in vignettes, beliefs about treatments for the persons in the vignettes, social distance from people with mental disorders, amount of contact with people with mental disorders, confidence in providing help to others, amount and type of help provided to others, participant mental health.
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Secondary outcome measure(s)
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Not provided at time of registration
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Sources of funding
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National Health and Medical Research Council
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Trial website
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Publications
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Results on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15310395
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Contact name
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Prof
Anthony
Jorm
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Address
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Centre for Mental Health Research
Australian National University
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City/town
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Canberra
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Zip/Postcode
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0200
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Country
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Australia
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Tel
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+61 2 61258414
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Fax
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+61 2 61250733
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Email
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anthony.jorm@anu.edu.au
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Sponsor
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Australian Centre for Mental Health Research
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Address
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Australian National University
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City/town
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Canberra
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Zip/Postcode
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0200
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Country
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Australia
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Tel
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+61 2 61258414
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Fax
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+61 2 61250733
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Email
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anthony.jorm@anu.edu.au
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Date applied
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22/11/2003
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Last edited
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10/09/2007
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Date ISRCTN assigned
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01/12/2003
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