How ‘mental health smart’ are you? Analysis of responses to an Australian Broadcasting Corporation News website Quiz

Abstract

Background: In Australia, 7.3 million people aged between 16 and 85 years of age will have a mental disorder during their lifetime and mental health knowledge can improve their long-term outcomes. Objective: This research examines the knowledge that the Australian public has about mental health and its associations with mental health training, personal experience, age and gender. Method: Data analyses were conducted on 16,783 (64% female) completed ‘How “mental health smart” are you?’ questionnaires from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation News website. Descriptive analyses were conducted, including examination of proportions of correct responses and multivariate logistic regression. Res..