Trial reportThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2010
Prodromal schizophrenia in primary care: a randomised sensitisation study.
Trial report in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Identifying individuals at risk of developing psychosis: A systematic review of the literature in primary care services.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- What is the effectiveness of printed educational materials on primary care physician knowledge, behaviour, and patient outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analyses.Implementation science : IS · 2015Pooled it
- Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of tailored intensive liaison between primary and secondary care to identify individuals at risk of a first psychotic illness (the LEGs study): a cluster-randomised controlled trial.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2015Trial
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- Evaluation of the performance of general practitioners in a collaborative care program by employing simulated patients.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Article
- Evaluation of GPs diagnostic knowledge and treatment practice in detection and treatment of early schizophrenia: a French postal survey in Brittany.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundGPs are often the first point of contact for patients with prodromal schizophrenia. Early intervention, and therefore early detection, of schizophrenia is pivotal for the further disease course. However, recent studies have revealed that, due to its low prevalence in general practice and its insidious features, prodromal schizophrenia often remains unnoticed.
aimTo test whether a repeated sensitisation method using clinical vignettes can improve diagnostic knowledge of GPs. DESIGN OF STUDY: Postal survey using anonymous questionnaires. Repeated sensitisation model using clinical vignettes.
settingGPs in three distinct regions in Switzerland covering a general population of 1.43 million.
methodThe study was conducted between September 2008 and October 2009. Questionnaires were sent to 1138 GPs at baseline, and at 6 and 12 months. After randomisation, 591 GPs were sensitised at 1, 3, and 5 months, while no sensitisation was carried out in the remaining 547 GPs.
resultsThe overall response rate was 66% (750 GPs). Sensitised GPs demonstrated a highly significant increase in diagnostic knowledge at 6 and at 12 months when compared to their own baseline knowledge scores and also to non-sensitised GPs (P<0.001). In particular, awareness of insidious features, such as functional decline and social withdrawal as signs of prodromal schizophrenia, accounted for this effect.
conclusionTheoretical knowledge of prodromal schizophrenia among GPs can successfully be increased by repeated sensitisation models using clinical vignettes.
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