Evaluating the Effect of a Telepsychiatry Educational Program on the Awareness, Knowledge, Attitude, and Skills of Telepsychiatry Among Spanish Psychiatrists during COVID-19 Pandemic
Por:
de las Cuevas, C, Gutierrez-Rojas, L, Alvarez-Mon, M, Andreu-Bernabeu, A, Capitan, L, Gomez, J, Grande, I, Hidalgo-Mazzei, D, Mateos, R, Moreno-Gea, P, De Vicente-Munoz, T and Ferre, F
Publicada:
1 ene 2023
Ahead of Print:
1 may 2022
Resumen:
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed the interest in telepsychiatry as a way to help psychiatrists care for their patients, but mental health providers' unfamiliarity and concerns may impede implementation of such services. This study aimed to determine the effect of an online educational intervention on awareness, knowledge, attitude, and skills (AKAS) of telepsychiatry among psychiatrists.Methods: The study used a pre-post-test design to compare AKAS of telepsychiatry among psychiatrists participating in an online course of practical telepsychiatry. The telemedicine AKAS questionnaire adapted to telepsychiatry was applied before and after the educational intervention, during the months of October to December 2020.Results: Responses from 213 participants were analyzed before the educational intervention and from 152 after it. The knowledge showed by Spanish psychiatrists before the educational intervention was good in 61% of participants, fair in 37%, and inadequate in 2%. With respect to attitudes toward telepsychiatry, 62% self-reported a high attitude, 33% moderate, and 5% low. With regard self-reported skills, 57% of the participating psychiatrists were highly skilled or experts, 22% moderately skilled, and 9% unskilled in handling telepsychiatry equipment. Despite the high baseline values, the educational intervention significantly improved psychiatrists' awareness, knowledge and attitudes toward telepsychiatry although not their skills.Conclusions: Online course of practical telepsychiatry was effective although future editions need to improve its focus on skills. This educational intervention represents an effort to promote the implementation of telepsychiatry as a health care alternative.
Filiaciones:
de las Cuevas, C:
Univ Laguna, Dermatol & Psychiatryand Inst Univ Neurociencia I, Dept Internal Med, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Gutierrez-Rojas, L:
Hosp Univ San Cecilio, Dept Psychiat, Granada, Spain
Univ Granada, Dept Psychiat, Granada, Spain
Hosp Gen Univ Gregorio Maranon, Inst Psychiat & Mental Hlth, Madrid, Spain
Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, Tower A,9 floor, E-18071 Granada, Spain
Alvarez-Mon, M:
Hosp Univ Infanta Leonor, Dept Psychiat & Mental Hlth, Madrid, Spain
Andreu-Bernabeu, A:
Hosp Gen Univ Gregorio Maranon, Inst Psychiat & Mental Hlth, Sch Med, Dept Child & Adolescent Psychiat, Madrid, Spain
Capitan, L:
Hosp Univ Virgen delRocio, Dept Psychiat, Seville, Spain
Gomez, J:
Shionogi&Co, Global Head Med Sci, London, England
Grande, I:
Univ Barcelona, Hosp Clin, Inst Neurosci, Bipolar & Depress Disorders Unit, Barcelona, Spain
Hidalgo-Mazzei, D:
Univ Barcelona, Hosp Clin, Inst Neurosci, Bipolar & Depress Disorders Unit, Barcelona, Spain
Mateos, R:
Univ Santiago de Compostela, CHUS Univ Hosp, Dept Psychiat, Psychogeriatr Unit, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Hosp Univ Ribera, Dept Psychiat, Valencia, Spain
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