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Table 6 Emerging themes from respondents’ answers to what they did not like about the information they received

From: Effect of a mental health training programme on Nigerian school pupils’ perceptions of mental illness

Generated themes and examples of students’ responses

n

%

Lecture methods

 “I don’t like how they acted the drama”

4

16.7

 “I didn’t like the group discussion”

  

Negative emotions

 “When I was taught about the symptoms of mental illness, I was scared”

5

20.8

Symptoms of/behaviour towards persons with mental illness

 “I did not like the symptoms”

  

 “what I did not like is about the nightmares”

13

54.2

 “about the situation of people with mental illness”

  

 “it is not good for someone to have mental illness”

  

Others

 “…have not seen someone with mental illness”

  

 “…that mental illness is sometimes transmitted through stress”

2

8.3

  1. n > 24 because of multiple responses