Birmingham and Coventry University MHFA course evaluations summary

Coventry University and the University of Birmingham evaluated all the MHFA course feedback evaluations from October 2011 - December 2012 (11,502) and asked the questions: "Is improving the mental health literacy of the population contributing to a public health priority?" and "Is this achieved through MHFA?"

The study found that:

• Mean personal confidence of how to best support others with a mental health issue increased on average by 3.5 points (from 4.49- 7.99/10)
• Mean knowledge and understanding of how to best support others with a mental health issue increased on average by 3.78 points (from 4.42-8.2/10)
• Both pre- and post-course confidence in how to help someone were highly correlated with knowledge of how to support others (correlation of .89 and .8 respectively)
• 96.6% of delegates further rated the training as very good/good

The study concluded that MHFA training met public health priorities by increasing mental health literacy.

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Patterson, P. & Pearson, L. University of Birmingham & Coventry University. 2013: Mental Health First Aid England: is improving the mental health literacy of the population contributing to a public health priority? (Presented at Public Health England annual conference)