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A hub and spokes approach to building community capacity for eating disorders in rural Western Australia
Julie McCormack1, Hunna J Watson, Chris Harris
1Eating Disorders Program, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Objective:
To determine whether an outreach community-based training program on eating disorders enhances perceived capacity of rural health and education professionals to respond to and manage eating disorders.
Design:
Survey conducted upon completion of outreach training.
Setting:
Rural Western Australia.
Participants:
Health and education professionals working in rural Western Australia.
Main Outcome Measures:
Questionnaire responses analysed via descriptive statistics and inferential tests.
Results:
There was a significant increase in perceived ability to identify, support and/or treat people with eating disorders among health and education professionals.
Conclusions:
Outreach training up-skilled rural gatekeepers and introduced systemic health system benefits of increased consultation and liaison, a fine-tuning of referral processes, a reduction in hospital admissions and better uptake of local services by patients discharged from hospital.
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