Enhancing health‐care workers' understanding and thinking about people living with co‐occurring mental health and substance use issues through consumer‐led training

Stigma and judgemental assumptions by health workers have been identified as key barriers to accessing health care for people living with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues (dual diagnosis).To evaluate the effectiveness of consumer-led training by people with dual diagnosis in improving the knowledge, understanding and role adequacy of community health staff to work with this consumer group.A controlled before-and-after study...