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Annals of family medicine · Feb 2023
Behavioral Health Within Primary Care Postgraduate Dental Curricula: A Mixed Methods Study.
- Shenam Ticku, Tien Jiang, Hesham Alhazmi, Nora Alamer, Robin A Harvan, and Christine A Riedy.
- Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts shenam_ticku@hsdm.harvard.edu.
- Ann Fam Med. 2023 Feb 1; 21 (Suppl 2): S4S13S4-S13.
PurposeThis study evaluated the integration of behavioral health topics (anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, eating disorders, opioid use disorder, and intimate partner violence) into primary care postgraduate dental curricula.MethodsWe used a sequential mixed methods approach. We sent a 46-item online questionnaire to directors of 265 Advanced Education in Graduate Dentistry programs and General Practice Residency programs asking about inclusion of behavioral health content in their curriculum. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with inclusion of this content. We also interviewed 13 of the program directors, conducted content analysis, and identified themes pertaining to inclusion.ResultsA total of 111 program directors completed the survey (42% response rate). Less than 50% of programs taught their residents to identify anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, eating disorders, and intimate partner violence (86% taught identification of opioid use disorder). From the interviews, we identified 8 main themes: influences on the inclusion of behavioral health in the curriculum; training strategies; reasons for incorporating the training strategies; training outcomes (ie, ways in which residents were evaluated); training outputs (ie, ways in which a program's success was quantified); barriers to inclusion; solutions to barriers; and reflections on how the current program can be made better. Programs housed in settings with no to minimal integration were 91% less likely (odds ratio = 0.09; 95% CI, 0.02-0.47) to include identifying depressive disorder in their curriculum compared with programs in settings with close to full integration. Other influences for including behavioral health content were organizational/government standards and patient populations. Barriers to including behavioral health training included organizational culture and lack of time.ConclusionsAdvanced Education in General Dentistry and General Practice Residency programs need to make greater efforts to include in their curricula training on behavioral health conditions, particularly anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, eating disorders, and intimate partner violence.© 2023 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
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