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Mental health
Educational interventions for healthcare professionals can reduce stigma towards mental illness
  1. Pierre Chue1,
  2. Moriah Tate2
  1. 1Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  2. 2Nursing, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Professor Pierre Chue; pchue{at}ualberta.ca

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104052

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    Commentary on: Effectiveness of educational interventions in reducing stigma of healthcare professionals and healthcare students towards mental illness: A systematic review and meta- analysis—Wong et al.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Training programmes for all healthcare professionals should incorporate appropriate and early education on mental illness and its common societal implications to ensure that care is inclusive and non-judgmental.

    • Education must be tailored, multimodal (in-person/online; contact-no-contact) and repeated.

    • Further research looking at why, when and how stigma develops is necessary.

    Context

    Stigma exists in society towards mental health and is also demonstrated by healthcare professionals. It develops early on in careers and impacts the delivery of care which further stigmatises this already disadvantaged population. Up to 75% of individuals with mental illness refuse treatment because of stigma …

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    Footnotes

    • Competing interests PC and MT have no conflicts or disclosures to report.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.