Table 3 Post-workshop survey findings with school students

1. Skills and understandings

1.1 Learn about confidentiality at the doctors

66

8.70

1.525

1.2 Learn how to talk with doctors about sensitive issues

66

7.95

1.659

1.3 Talk with friends when they have problems with sex, drugs or mental health

66

6.86

2.190

1.4 Understand the doctor’s job in helping teenage patients with problems to do with sex, drugs or mental health

66

8.15

1.666

1.5 Develop your own confidence to talk about personal health problems

66

7.88

2.004

1.6 Feel more confident to talk to a doctor if needed

65

8.03

1.912

1.7 Feel more confident to help a friend to go to a doctor for advice on personal things like sex, drugs or mental health

66

7.56

2.120

1.8 Get a better understanding of problems or worries you have experience in the past

66

6.92

2.303

1.9 Get a better understanding of how to handle problems if they come up in the future

66

8.17

1.845

2. Activities useful for learning

2.1Discussing the issues in the preparation workshops

66

7.38

1.795

2.2 Role-playing scenarios in the preparation workshops

66

7.91

1.795

2.3 Acting in the role-plays with the doctors

66

8.32

1.580

2.4 Watching the role-plays done with the doctors

65

7.85

2.188

2.5 The coaching and replay in fishbowl activity conducted by facilitator

66

8.03

1.839

2.6 Giving feedback and advice to the doctors

66

8.23

1.863

2.7 Listening to the comments and feedback from class mates

66

7.92

2.129

2.8 Listening to the comments from tutors and teachers

66

7.85

1.906

2.9 The Hidden Thoughts technique to unpack what people might be thinking

65

7.86

2.022

2.10 Discussion with the doctors

66

8.35

1.814

3. Workshop outcomes overall

3.1 Increase your confidence in your own abilities to talk with adults

63

7.70

2.061

3.2 Increase your confidence that doctors may be useful when young people have personal health problems

63

8.13

1.782

3.3 Understand better how you might cope in the future if you get a doctor who is not good at talking with teenage patients

63

7.76

1.915

3.4 Increase your intention to encourage a friend to go to a doctor if they have a problem with sex, drugs or mental health

63

7.46

1.908

3.5 Make you more likely to go to a doctor if in the future you have a problem with sex, drugs or mental health

63

7.65

2.194