Table 1 Eligibility criteria

Population

Health practitioners including, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health nurses, general practitioners, primary care nurses, and other mental health workers who treat people with BPD in healthcare settings such as outpatients, inpatients, and community-based settings; people with BPD; carers/families of people with BPD

Concept

Structural stigma specific to BPD and crises (suicidality)

Context

International peer-reviewed studies investigating health practitioners’ attitudes and practice in treating people with BPD in healthcare settings; consumers with BPD or carers/families of people with BPD accessing healthcare

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Articles were included if:

Articles were excluded if:

Evaluated health practitioners’ treating people with BPD in crisis in an outpatient, inpatient, and community-based setting; consumers with BPD or carers/families of people with BPD perspectives and experiences of healthcare

Evaluated health practitioners’ treating people with other mental illnesses; consumers with other mental illnesses; carers/families of people with other mental illness 

Evaluated structural stigma as an outcome in healthcare settings

Not reporting outcomes specific to borderline personality disorder and structural stigma

Original research including peer-reviewed publications on quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, and review designs

Conducted in non-clinical settings such as educational institutions

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Studies of low quality

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