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Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training?
BACKGROUND: Studies have been conducted on the skills of physicians in general hospitals in identifying mental disorders,but there are no studies assessing the proficiency of internees in identifying mental disorders. AIM: To confirm the diagnosis of the cases identified by 40 internees in the commu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21431010 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.75562 |
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author | Bindu, Annigeri Rao, T. S. Sathyanarayana Ashok, N. C. Prabhakar, A. K. Manickam, L. S. S. |
author_facet | Bindu, Annigeri Rao, T. S. Sathyanarayana Ashok, N. C. Prabhakar, A. K. Manickam, L. S. S. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Studies have been conducted on the skills of physicians in general hospitals in identifying mental disorders,but there are no studies assessing the proficiency of internees in identifying mental disorders. AIM: To confirm the diagnosis of the cases identified by 40 internees in the community as ‘mentally disabled’. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Of 15,583 people,29 were identified in the community by the internees as ‘mentally disabled’. This was followed by home visits to the houses of these 29 individuals conducted by two qualified psychiatrists and one clinical psychologist, and these cases were screened for their psychiatric status using MINI Plus. RESULTS: Most of the cases identified by internees as having ‘mental disability’ were cases of mental retardation and the others were mood and psychotic disorders and epilepsy. Cases of mental retardation and mental disorders other than those identified by the internees could also be identified while visiting the respective geographical areas. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to hone the skills of the medical students during the course of their training in identifying cases of mental retardation, severe as well as minor psychiatric disorders, as a part of their training. There is also a need for the use of structured scales for the same. |
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spelling | pubmed-30561902011-03-22 Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? Bindu, Annigeri Rao, T. S. Sathyanarayana Ashok, N. C. Prabhakar, A. K. Manickam, L. S. S. Indian J Psychiatry Brief Research Communication BACKGROUND: Studies have been conducted on the skills of physicians in general hospitals in identifying mental disorders,but there are no studies assessing the proficiency of internees in identifying mental disorders. AIM: To confirm the diagnosis of the cases identified by 40 internees in the community as ‘mentally disabled’. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Of 15,583 people,29 were identified in the community by the internees as ‘mentally disabled’. This was followed by home visits to the houses of these 29 individuals conducted by two qualified psychiatrists and one clinical psychologist, and these cases were screened for their psychiatric status using MINI Plus. RESULTS: Most of the cases identified by internees as having ‘mental disability’ were cases of mental retardation and the others were mood and psychotic disorders and epilepsy. Cases of mental retardation and mental disorders other than those identified by the internees could also be identified while visiting the respective geographical areas. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to hone the skills of the medical students during the course of their training in identifying cases of mental retardation, severe as well as minor psychiatric disorders, as a part of their training. There is also a need for the use of structured scales for the same. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3056190/ /pubmed/21431010 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.75562 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Research Communication Bindu, Annigeri Rao, T. S. Sathyanarayana Ashok, N. C. Prabhakar, A. K. Manickam, L. S. S. Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? |
title | Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? |
title_full | Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? |
title_fullStr | Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? |
title_full_unstemmed | Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? |
title_short | Identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: How much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? |
title_sort | identifying the ‘mentally disabled’ in the community: how much more is to be imparted to the internees in training? |
topic | Brief Research Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21431010 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.75562 |
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