Quotes highlighting participants’ feedback on the intervention
| Positive elements | |
| Intergroup contact | ‘The talk with Camilla was the most helpful thing because it was like, you probably like, you probably weren't ever going to talk to a mental um person like someone who's actually been there, done that kind of thing. So you probably won't get the chance and like if like it was good cos then you knew what people go through’. ‘A stereotype of a crazy person, um someone with a mental illness is someone who's crazy, speaks nonsense, but she looked really normal. So that just goes to show that people with mental illnesses are normal, but in their own way’. |
| Presenters | ‘They were very like straight to the point and they didn't over exaggerate it either’. ‘They were chatty, they didn't just read off the board, they spoke to you like not in a boring way just didn't waffle’. ‘They didn't scare you but they made you understand’. |
| Interactive elements | ‘I liked the videos because they were effective and they actually showed you what people can do’. ‘I liked the true and false one where you had to see where, cos you were still learning then, but like without having to just sit there. it gets you more interactive so you feel like you're actually taking part in that’. ‘I liked the drama as well because it was like um it was almost like, cos we were doing stress and I think Mika, cos I was Mika in one of them, Mika was stressed, so you kind of like, you learnt what stress is actually like’. |
| Areas for improvement | |
| Language and explanations | ‘In the end, they kind of kept saying what is normal and I couldn't really put my finger on it—is everyone normal? Is no-one normal? And it really like made my brain fuzzy, it's really hard to think straight. I did find it useful, it was just really difficult’. ‘I didn't find it, the drama bit boring because it was really funny watching it, like everyone in the class watching, but the bit afterwards because it, it used words that I didn't understand like ‘bodily language’’. |
| Time for discussion and questions | ‘I found that we just got loaded on with information more than discussed it’. |
| Help-seeking | ‘More on what you could do if you like did have mental illness because you could see a doctor or you could er go on this website to get help but they didn't really tell us anything else that we could do’. |
| Violence | ‘What triggers them to be dangerous?’ |