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Development of case vignettes to assess the mental health training of primary care medical officers
Author(s) -
Sriram T. G.,
Chandrashekar C. R.,
Isaac M. K.,
Murthy R. Srinivasa,
Kumar K. V. Kishore,
Moily S.,
Shanmugham V.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1990.tb01377.x
Subject(s) - mental health , primary care , set (abstract data type) , medicine , psychology , mental health care , psychiatry , family medicine , computer science , programming language
This article reports the development of case vignettes as a method of assessing the short‐term in‐service training of primary care medical officers in mental health care. A pool of 18 case vignettes representing common psychiatric problems and a standard response sheet were written first. This was mailed to 45 psychiatrists for their comments. Based on the comments received from 21 psychiatrists, 2 sets of questionnaires with 7 vignettes in each set were developed. When administered to a group of 32 medical officers, this method of assessment was found to be sensitive in detecting gain in knowledge and skills following training. Further, performance on case vignettes was found to correlate positively with clinical skills when actual cases were given for assessment.