Table 1 Work packages within the Indigo Partnership research programme

WP1 Coordination

Overarching project management and coordination across all research activities

WP2 Culture

Conduct formative work to comprehend cultural knowledge and insights on manifestations, mechanisms and impacts of stigma, and local healthcare contexts, and to inform scale adaptation and the development of culturally customised anti-stigma interventions

WP3 Metrics

Develop culturally adapted research instruments to assess the processes and impact of anti-stigma interventions on key domains in community, primary care, and specialist settings. Evaluate the psychometric properties of these instruments, and make them available through an online database

WP4 Local

Conduct a proof-of-principle pilot study that involves delivering and evaluating a local area public awareness-raising intervention designed to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase referrals of people with mental illness for assessment and treatment

WP5 Primary

Conduct a small proof-of-principle intervention to reduce stigma among primary health care workers in order to improve the: (1) competency of primary healthcare workers delivering mental health services; (2) quality of mental health care delivered at primary health care; and (3) experience and satisfaction of mental health service users and caregivers in primary healthcare setting

WP6 READ

Conduct a proof-of-principle training intervention to accelerate the capacity of specialist mental health service staff to respond positively to stigma and discrimination affecting service users

WP7 Uptake

Carrying out knowledge exchange activities to increase the active engagement of stakeholders in the processes of the project and support achieving the optimum uptake of Indigo Partnership research findings