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Impact of training in autism for primary care providers: a pilot study
Daniela Bordini1, Rosane Lowenthal1, Ary Gadelha2
1Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit (UPIA), Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Objective:
To evaluate the impact of a training program on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) identification offered to Brazilian health professionals.
Methods:
Twenty-two primary care providers participated in five 3-hour weekly training sessions.
Results:
The trained providers significantly improved their ASD knowledge after training in comparison with pre-training (mean score, 6.73 vs. 9.18, p < 0.01). Clinical practice also changed: 4 months after the training program, the providers had referred six times as many suspected cases of ASD to a specialized mental health service in comparison with the previous 4 months.
Conclusion:
This pilot training model seems a promising, feasible, and inexpensive way to improve early identification of ASD in the primary care system.
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