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Table 3 Predictors of teachers’ 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

0.105

1.562

0.120

−0.004

0.033

 Sex (male coded 1, female 0)

0.105

1.584

0.114

−0.073

0.672

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

0.001

0.002

0.998

−0.362

0.363

 Knowledge (pre-scores)

0.100

0.1434

1.434

0.153

0.037

 Constant

4.477

7.142

0.000

3.242

5.712

Model 2 (dependent variable: post-attitude)

 Age

−0.032

−0.491

0.624

−0.018

0.011

 Sex (male coded 1, female coded 0)

0.017

0.260

0.795

−0.261

0.341

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

0.234

1.573

0.117

−0.059

0.527

 Attitude (pre-scores)

0.220

3.490

0.001

0.096

0.345

 Constant

2.174

5.031

0.000

1.323

3.025

Model 3 (dependent variable: post-confidence)

 Age

0.091

1.382

0.168

−0.099

0.052

 Sex (male coded 1)

0.478

1.498

0.135

−0.151

1.107

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

0.111

0.036

0.971

−0.599

0.621

 Confidence (pre-scores)

0.131

1.961

0.051

−0.001

0.263

 Constant

5.187

5.569

0.000

3.352

7.022

  1. Model 1: R2  0.050, F 4.05, p 0.003
  2. Model 2: R2 = 0.20, F = 2.20, p = 0.069
  3. Model 3: R2 = 0.34, F = 3.17, p = 0.085
  4. β standardized co-efficient, t student T-test