Table 1 ICAMO glossary

Intervention (I)

Characteristics of the mental health education interventions such as modality, duration, activity type, and whether it is a core or elective intervention.

Context (C)

The conditions required for mechanisms to activate or not. These are the circumstances that can facilitate or restrain mechanisms which include, societal, structural and health profession attitudes about mental health or active ingredients evident in interventions such as direct or indirect contact, positive learning environment, or cultural context of the intervention and whether the module is core or elective.

Actors (A)

The type of health profession the student is learning to become (pharmacy, medicine, nursing, paramedicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy). The stage of learning the student is at (junior, intermediate, senior). This also includes any learner characteristics of students such as age, gender, cultural background, previous or personal experiences.

Mechanism (M)

The choices, perceptions and reasoning that result from the resources of the intervention

Resources: time, authenticity, connection, contact, trust, dialogue, repetition, collaboration.

Responses: understanding, empathy, reflection, confidence, greater awareness

Outcomes (O)

Consequences of the intervention (empathy, confidence, skills development, mental health literacy)