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Table 2 Predictors of students’ post-intervention knowledge of, attitude towards, and confidence about handling depression

From: Towards school-based mental health programs in Nigeria: the immediate impact of a depression-literacy program among school-going adolescents and their teachers

Independent variables

β

t

sig

Confidence interval

Lower bound

Upper bound

Model 1 (dependent variable: post-knowledge)

 Age

−0.017

−0.987

0.324

−0.042

0.014

 Sex (male coded 1, female 0)

−0.002

−0.111

0.912

−0.099

0.089

 School type (public coded 1 vs. private coded 0)

−0.059

−1.289

0.198

−0.149

0.031

 Knowledge (pre-scores)

0.183

10.342

<0.001

0.140

0.206

 Constant

2.896

19.884

0.000

4.607

5.614

Model 2 (dependent variable: post-attitude)

 Age

0.002

−0.168

0.866

−0.027

−0.023

 Sex (male coded 1, female coded 1)

0.010

0.231

0.818

−0.074

0.094

 School type (public coded 1 vs. private coded 0)

−0.256

−6.230

<0.001

−0.336

−0.175

 Attitude (pre-scores)

0.170

9.437

<0.001

0.336

−0.175

 Constant

2.383

10.85

0.000

1.952

2.183

Model 3 (dependent variable: post-confidence)

 Age

0.083

4.859

<0.001

0.075

0.177

 Sex (male coded 1)

−0.460

−5.204

<0.001

−0.653

−0.277

 School type (public coded 1 vs. private coded 0)

−0.287

−3.173

0.002

−0.433

−0.102

 Confidence (pre-scores)

0.286

16.695

<0.001

0.260

0.330

 Constant

3.092

6.966

0.000

2.221

3.962

  1. Model 1; R2 = .035, F = 27.98, p < 0.001
  2. Model 2; R2 = .042, F = 34.55, p < 0.001
  3. Model 3; R2 = .10, F = 87.00, p < 0.001
  4. β standardized co-efficient; t student T-test