Abstract
Objective: To identify attitudes related to mental health in community health agents before/after an educational update intervention. Methods: Quasi-experimental study, pre-post type with a quantitative approach, using the Scale of Attitudes Related to Mental Health. Results: After an educational update intervention, of the nine items on the scale, considered to have negative attitudes towards mental health (items 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13), five items showed a reduction in their agreement by the participants (56%). On the other hand, of the six items of the scale, considered with positive attitudes of the scale towards mental health (items 1, 3, 6, 9, 14 and 15), five items showed an increase in their agreement by the participants (83%), in other words, of the fifteen total items of the scale, ten items achieved a change in mental health attitudes (67%). Conclusion: There was an improvement in the knowledge of community health agents after an educational update intervention on attitudes related to mental health.