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Table 2 Pre and post-tests percentage of metal distress symptoms

From: Feasibility and acceptability of brief individual interpersonal psychotherapy among university students with mental distress in Ethiopia

Questions

Pre-test

Post-test

Not sure (%)

Several days (%)

Over half the days (%)

Nearly every day (%)

Never (%)

Several days (%)

Over half the days (%)

Nearly every day (%)

Never (%)

Felt sad, miserable, down or hopeless?

 

45.8

12.5

37.5

4.2

16.7

4.2

4.2

75

Felt little pleasure or interest in doing things?

4.2

54.2

8.3

25

8.3

16.7

4.2

8.3

70.8

Felt nervous/anxious?

 

66.7

25

 

8.3

12.5

8.3

4.2

75

Not enough energy, that everything is an effort?

4.2

50

20.8

 

4.2

8.3

8.3

4.2

79.2

Felt so restless it is hard to sit still?

8.3

25

25

29.2

12.5

4.2

4.2

 

91.7

Had trouble to concentrating on conversations/reading?

4.2

20.8

20.8

37.5

16.7

8.3

4.2

 

87.5

Felt really bad about yourself, that you are a failure or that you have let your family down?

12.5

33.3

12.5

20.8

20.8

4.2

4.2

 

91.7

Felt you could not stop or control worrying?

8.3

33.3

 

33.3

25

16.7

4.2

 

79.2

Had trouble sleeping?

8.3

12.5

20.8

41.7

16.7

4.2

4.2

 

87.5

Felt afraid as if something awful might happen without a reason?

16.7

45.8

 

20.8

16.7

20.8

4.2

 

75

How many days have you had more than 5 physical symptoms (e.g. aches and pains, palpitations, burning/numbness/crawling sensations)?

4.2

50

4.2

25

16.7

12.5

4.2

 

83.3