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PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE
Volume 27, Issue 7, Pages 601-605Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31822255a1
Keywords
educations; suicide; youth
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- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) [K23MH064517]
- [2R42MH073197-02]
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Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine whether a 5-module self-paced computerized educational program improves residents' skills in assessing and managing youth presenting to the emergency department in acute psychiatric distress. Methods: The evaluation used a quasi-experimental posttest-only design assessing both knowledge of the educational context of the program and self-rated pretest knowledge of program content with 32 residents recruited from 1 medical center in Cleveland, Ohio. Results: About half of the respondents were female (48%); almost two thirds were white (65%), and few were trained in psychiatric assessment of children/adolescents. On average, residents had significantly higher scores on the posttest compared with the self-rated pretest (6.4 +/- 1.1 vs 3.8 +/- 2.3; P < 0.001), an effect size of 1.32. Residents responded positively to the modules and rated them highly on educational content (4.2 +/- 0.5 on a 5-point scale) and satisfaction with clinical applicability (8.2 +/- 1.2 on a 10-point scale) and found the program easy to navigate (8.5 +/- 1.9 on a 10-point scale). Conclusions: A brief, self-administered, Web-based training program shows promise for improving residents' knowledge about suicidal behaviors in youth.
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