Assessing general hospital doctors' attitudes toward psychiatric care in multicultural settings.
Attitudes
Culture
Hospital doctors
Mental illness
Psychiatric care
Journal
BMC research notes
ISSN: 1756-0500
Titre abrégé: BMC Res Notes
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101462768
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 May 2024
02 May 2024
Historique:
received:
12
10
2023
accepted:
25
04
2024
medline:
3
5
2024
pubmed:
3
5
2024
entrez:
2
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Psychiatric care in general hospitals depends on collaboration with non-psychiatrist doctors. The Doctors' Attitudes toward Collaborative Care for Mental Health (DACC-MH) is a two-factor scale designed to address this issue and validated in the UK in 2010. However, its applicability in contemporary, culturally diverse settings is unknown and therefore this study was aimed at determining its validity and consistency using data from our 2021 international study. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were used, comparing results from our 2021 study (n = 889) with those from the 2010 UK study (n = 225). The DACC-MH consultation subscale, but not the management subscale, aligned with data from our larger, international study. The 2-factor model failed the Chi-square goodness of fit test (χ
Identifiants
pubmed: 38698409
doi: 10.1186/s13104-024-06788-7
pii: 10.1186/s13104-024-06788-7
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
125Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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