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Innovative Training with Virtual Patients in Transcultural Psychiatry: The Impact on Resident Psychiatrists’ Confidence

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  • Ioannis Pantziaras
  • Uno Fors
  • Solvig Ekblad

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Background: Virtual patients are now widely accepted as efficient and safe training tools in medical education, but very little is known about their implementation in psychiatry, especially in transcultural clinical care of traumatized refugee patients. Objective: This study aimed at assessing the impact of training with a virtual patient on confidence in providing clinical care for traumatized refugee patients. Methods: The authors developed an educational tool based on virtual patient methodology portraying the case of “Mrs. K”, a traumatized refugee woman with symptoms of PTSD and depression. A group (N=32) of resident psychiatrists tested the system and their confidence in different aspects of providing clinical care for this patient group was evaluated pre- and post-test by using a validated confidence questionnaire. Cronbach’s α was calculated for all clusters. Changes between pre- and post-test were compared by using the matched-pair t-test, binomial distribution for exact significance test and a calculation of effect sizes (Cohen’s d). Results: A statistically significant improvement was exhibited in overall confidence (mean Δ: 0.34; p

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  • Ioannis Pantziaras & Uno Fors & Solvig Ekblad, 2015. "Innovative Training with Virtual Patients in Transcultural Psychiatry: The Impact on Resident Psychiatrists’ Confidence," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-10, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0119754
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119754
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