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Mental Health Literacy among First Year College Students of Universitas Indonesia
摘要
Background: Research around mental health literacy is still limited, especially among college students in Indonesia. Objective: We aimed to adapt the Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) and pilot test the measure to college students in Indonesia. Method: The original MHLS has 35 items, each of them was rated for knowledge (15 items, 4-point Likert scale), information seeking (4 items, 5-point Likert scale), attitude (9 items, 5-point Likert scale) and willingness (7 items, 5-point Likert scale). We adapted the 35-item in MHLS through expert translation, cognitive interviews, and content validity check. The adapted instrument then included in an online survey to collect data from 373 purposively sampled first year college students of Universitas Indonesia. Data were analyzed for inter-item reliability, criterion validity, as well as descriptive statistic. Results: Of the 35 items, we deleted 10 items due to incompatibility with Indonesia context. The 25 items were categorized into four domains: Knowledge of mental disorders and treatments (11 items); Information seeking about mental illness (3 items); Attitude towards mental illness (7 items); Willingness to socialize or live with people with mental illness (4 items). This short, adapted version of MHLS has a good inter-item reliability (Cronbach's Alpha=0.77) and has a positive association with Health Literacy Scale (HLS) as expected (r=0.27, p＜0.001). Total score is produced by summing all items where questions with a 4-point scale were rated 1 to 4, while those with a 5-point scale were rated 1 to 5. The lowest possible score is 25, while the highest was 114. Students from the college of health sciences had the highest mental health literacy score (M=87.49, SD=7.99), followed by those from the college of social and humanity (M=86.94, SD=7.99), and those from the college of science and technology (M=84.47, SD=8.24). Conclusion: The adapted short version of MHLS was found to be reliable and valid to assess mental health literacy among first year college students in Indonesia. While the average score of mental health literacy among our samples seems adequate, intervention is still needed to improve mental health literacy among students from the college of science and technology.