Table 1.

Key ingredients of anti-stigma programmes for healthcare providers

Anti-stigma ingredient

Social contact in the form of a personal testimony from a trained speaker who has lived experience of mental illness

Multiple forms or points of social contact (for example, a presentation from a live speaker and a video presentation, multiple first-voice speakers, multiple points of social contact between program participants, and people with lived experience of mental illness)

Focus on behaviour change by teaching skills that help health care providers know what to say and what to do

Engage in myth-busting

Enthusiastic facilitator or instructor who models a person-centred approach (that is, a person-first perspective as opposed to a pathology-first perspective) to set the tone and guide programme messaging

Emphasise and demonstrate recovery as a key part of its messaging

Based on findings reported on p. S21–22 in [42]