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Table 2 Change of the mean score on Link’s Devaluation-Discrimination Scale from pre-test to post-test

From: Characteristics linked to the reduction of stigma towards schizophrenia: a pre-and-post study of parents of adolescents attending an educational program

Mean scores of pre-link’s devaluation-discrimination scale

Mean scores of post-ink’s devaluation-discrimination scale

Total

 

Minimal (<2)

Low (2–2.5)

Moderate (2.5-3)

High (≥3)

 

Minimal (<2)

2 (10.0)*

10 (50.0)

7 (35.0)

1 (5.0)

20 (100.0)

Low (2–2.5)

15 (6.4)

41 (17.4)

168 (71.5)

11 (4.7)

235 (100.0)

Moderate (2.5-3)

2 (0.4)

121 (24.3)

241 (48.4)

134 (26.9)

498 (100.0)

High (≥3)

0 (0.0)

18 (5.9)

165 (54.1)

122 (40.0)

305 (100.0)

Total

19 (1.8)

190 (18.0)

581 (54.9)

268 (25.3)

1058 (100.0)

  1. Two-tailed P-value of 0.747 for Wilcoxon signed rank-test for four-level mean scores of pre- and post-test stigma.
  2. *The number of participants is presented in each cell, with the percent of the subtotal of each row in parentheses.