INDIGO-READ MH:
Training for mental health professionals in responding to mental health-related discrimination
Leads: Prof Claire Henderson, Prof Uta Ouali
This study assesses the feasibility, potential effectiveness and costs of Responding to Experienced and Anticipated Discrimination training for health professionals working in mental health care (READ-MH) through an uncontrolled pre-post mixed methods feasibility study of READ-MH training.
Outcome measures: Knowledge based on course content, attitudes to working to address the impact of stigma on service users and skills in responding constructively to service users’ reports of discrimination.
The training draws upon the evidence bases for stigma reduction, health advocacy and medical education and is tailored to sites through situational analyses. Its content, delivery methods and intensity were agreed upon through a consensus exercise with site research teams. READ-MH will be delivered to health professionals working in mental health care immediately after baseline data collection; outcome measures will be collected post-training and 3 months post-baseline, followed by qualitative data collection analysed using a combined deductive and inductive approach. Fidelity was rated during the delivery of READ-MH, and data on training costs were collected. Quantitative data were assessed using generalised linear mixed models. Qualitative data was evaluated by thematic analysis to identify feedback about the training methods and content, including the implementability of the knowledge and skills learned.
Full protocol: Henderson, C., Ouali, U., Bakolis, I., Berbeche, N., Bhattarai, K., Brohan, E., Cherian, A., Girma, E., Gronholm, P. C., Gurung, D., Hanlon, C., Kallakuri, S., Kaur, A., Ketema, B., Lempp, H., Li, J., Loganathan, S., Maulik, P. K., Mendon, G., … Thornicroft, G. (2022). Training for mental health professionals in responding to experienced and anticipated mental health-related discrimination (READ-MH): protocol for an international multisite feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1186/S40814-022-01208-8
Select intervention materials for Indigo READ are available in the Measures and Other Resources section.
Evaluation results will be added to the Publications section.