Mechanisms of action for stigma reduction among primary care providers following social contact with service users and aspirational figures in nepal: an explanatory qualitative design

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Stigma is associated with reduced care-seeking by people with mental illness, and it contributes to healthcare providers not delivering mental healthcare or providing low quality care for both physical and mental illnesses. Negative attitudes about people with mental illness are widespread among care providers in low- and middleincome countries (LMICs), including perceptions that they are violent, morally to blame, can only be treated by specialists, and that providing treatment puts providers at risk of developing mental illness. When medical trainees do encounter people with mental illness, it is often those patients who are . . .

 



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