Implementation and Evaluation of Two Educational Strategies to Improve Screening for Eating Disorders in Pediatric Primary Care
| Autor: | Sara F. Forman, Currie Touloumtzis, Louis Vernacchio, Elizabeth Cheever, Holly C. Gooding, Jonathan Hatoun, Farah Jooma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Adolescent education Primary care 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Pediatrics Statistics Nonparametric Feeding and Eating Disorders 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Documentation Intervention (counseling) medicine Humans Mass Screening 030212 general & internal medicine Disordered eating Psychiatry Child Routine screening Primary Health Care business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Problem-Based Learning medicine.disease Quality Improvement United States Test (assessment) Psychiatry and Mental health Eating disorders Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Self Report Educational interventions business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. 60(5) |
| ISSN: | 1879-1972 |
| Popis: | Purpose Routine screening for disordered eating or body image concerns is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. We evaluated the ability of two educational interventions to increase screening for eating disorders in pediatric primary care practice, predicting that the "active-learning" group would have an increase in documented screening after intervention. Methods We studied 303 practitioners in a large independent practice association located in the northeastern United States. We used a quasi-experimental design to test the effect of printed educational materials ("print-learning" group, n = 280 participants) compared with in-person shared learning followed by on-line spaced education ("active-learning" group, n = 23 participants) on documented screening of adolescents for eating disorder symptoms during preventive care visits. A subset of 88 participants completed additional surveys regarding knowledge of eating disorders, comfort screening for, diagnosing, and treating eating disorders, and satisfaction with their training regarding eating disorders. Results During the preintervention period, 4.5% of patients seen by practitioners in both the print-learning and active-learning groups had chart documentation of screening for eating disorder symptoms or body image concerns. This increased to 22% in the active-learning group and 5.7% in the print-learning group in the postintervention period, a statistically significant result. Compared with print-learning participants, active-learning group participants had greater eating disorder knowledge scores, increases in comfort diagnosing eating disorders, and satisfaction with their training in this area. Conclusions In-person shared learning followed by on-line spaced education is more effective than print educational materials for increasing provider documentation of screening for eating disorders in primary care. |
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