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The problem
Intervention: Interactive 60-75 minute teaching session covering ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, emerging emotionally unstable personality disorder, bipolar affective disorder, and schizophrenia, with time for questions
Who it was tested with: Allied health professionals from a youth drug and alcohol service and two regional social services in Staffordshire.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"A 21 question quiz, 3 questions on each topic, was taken at the start and end of each session." The study used a straightforward before-and-after measurement design without a comparison group to evaluate whether a single teaching session improved allied health professionals' knowledge of child and adolescent mental health conditions.
Small sample size; no comparison or control group; no follow-up assessment of retention; unclear whether quiz improvement translates to improved clinical practice; two topics (autism and bipolar disorder) showed limited improvement suggesting the intervention may need adaptation for these complex conditions.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
