Pilot Study: Continuing Education Increases Mental Health Clinicians’ Knowledge and Potential Capacity for Providing Refugee and Survivor of Torture Services
Conference Year
2023
Abstract
This study aimed to assess if a 9-hour Continuing Education training resulted in increased knowledge and impacted the participants’ perspectives of future clinical work with refugees and Survivors of Torture (SOTs). A pre-post test was administered and a paired t-test was conducted (N =10, t = -5.54, p-value = .0004). The results indicated that participants increased their knowledge of trauma-informed care for refugees. Moreover, 75% indicated that they will (15%), want to (30%), or already are (30%) working with refugees. Overall, the study showed that CE trainings can increase clinician knowledge and has the potential to increase the capacity of services.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Karen Fondacaro
Status
Undergraduate
Student College
College of Arts and Sciences
Program/Major
Accelerated RN-BS-MS
Second Program/Major
Global Studies
Primary Research Category
Social Science
Pilot Study: Continuing Education Increases Mental Health Clinicians’ Knowledge and Potential Capacity for Providing Refugee and Survivor of Torture Services
This study aimed to assess if a 9-hour Continuing Education training resulted in increased knowledge and impacted the participants’ perspectives of future clinical work with refugees and Survivors of Torture (SOTs). A pre-post test was administered and a paired t-test was conducted (N =10, t = -5.54, p-value = .0004). The results indicated that participants increased their knowledge of trauma-informed care for refugees. Moreover, 75% indicated that they will (15%), want to (30%), or already are (30%) working with refugees. Overall, the study showed that CE trainings can increase clinician knowledge and has the potential to increase the capacity of services.