Table 5 Emerging themes from respondents’ answers on what they liked about the information they received
Generated themes and examples of students’ responses | n | % |
|---|---|---|
Increased awareness about mental illness | ||
“It makes you know more about the mental illness” | 33 | 41.8 |
“To know the symptoms” | ||
“It educates me more about mental illness” | ||
“The information enlightened me on the issue of people with mental illness” | ||
Increased ability to recognize someone with mental illness | ||
“I would be able to identify a person with mental illness” | ||
“It makes me know the people with mental illness” | 4 | 5.4 |
“It teaches us how to know people with mental illness” | ||
Empathy | ||
“It makes me understand the condition or the state of people with mental illness and how to relate with them” | ||
“The programme makes me understand my junior brother very well” | 6 | 7.6 |
“I take pity on those who have mental illness” | ||
Perceived change in belief or behaviour | ||
“It makes me know that people with mental illness can be treated” | 15 | 19.0 |
“that people with mental illness should not be tied down and flogged instead they should be taken to hospital” | ||
“I like the teaching about psychosis and mental illness because I thought that it was caused by a spiritual attack before” | ||
Others | 21 | 26.6 |
Structure/presentation/content of the lecture | ||
“…I liked the way she classified the people disturbed with mental illness” | 17 | 81.0 |
“The lecture was very interesting” | ||
“I liked the way they acted and demonstrated it” | ||
Manner of relating | ||
“I love how she speaks and demonstrates” | ||
“I like the lecturer’s teaching” | 4 | 19.0 |
“She is good at explaining” | ||