ArticleEvidence-based medicine2017
Mental health literacy in primary care: Canadian Research and Education for the Advancement of Child Health (CanREACH).
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- The Economic Impact of Providing Evidence-Based Pediatric Mental Health Literacy Training to Primary Care Physicians.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
- Impact of Central Intake Development and System Change on Per Capita Child and Adolescent Mental Health Discharges from 2002 to 2017: Implications for Optimizing System Design by Shaping Demand.The Permanente journal · 2019Article
- Tips for permanent education in mental health in primary care guided by the Institutional Socio-clinic.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2019Article
- Improving youth mental health supports in Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2018Article
- Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experience Survey Items and Psychiatric Disorders.The Permanente journal · 2018Article
- Improving the Capacity of Non-Physician Primary Care Providers to Address Child and Youth Mental Health Through Mental Health Literacy Approaches.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
The effectiveness of a continuing education programme in paediatric psychopharmacology designed for primary healthcare providers was objectively measured based on the assumption that training would lead to measurable changes in referral patterns and established clinical measures of referred patients. Using established, valid and reliable measures of clinical urgency embedded in to a regional healthcare system since 2002, the referrals to child and adolescent psychiatric services of physicians who participated in the training (n=99) were compared pretraining and post-training, and to non-participating/untrained referring physicians (n=7753) making referrals over the same time period. Referrals were analysed for evidence of change based on frequencies and measures of clinical urgency. Participants of the training programme also completed standardised baseline and outcome self-evaluations. Congruent with participants self-reported evaluative reports of improved knowledge and practice, analysis of referral frequency and the clinical urgency of referrals to paediatric psychiatric services over the study period indicated that trained physicians made more appropriate referrals (clinically more severe) and reduced referrals to emergency services. Quantitative clinical differences as completed by intake clinicians blind to referrals from the study group designations were observed within the trained physician group pretraining and post-training, and between the trained physician group and the unexposed physician group. The results illustrate a novel model for objectively measuring change among physicians based on training in paediatric mental health management.
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