Dr. Aggarwal, Mr. Lam, Mr. Jiménez-Solomon, Dr. Desilva, Dr. Margolies, Ms. Cleary, and Ms. Cain are with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York. Dr. Aggarwal, Dr. Desilva, and Dr. Margolies are also with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Dr. Dixon and Dr. Lewis-Fernández are with the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York. Dr. Lewis-Fernández is editor of this column.
Psychiatr Serv. 2018 Nov 1;69(11):1135-1137. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201800119. Epub 2018 Jul 25.
Professional organizations and government guidelines recommend cultural competence training for providers, but the lack of a standardized cultural assessment has hindered research. Studies with the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) suggest that active learning during training improves perceptions of the CFI's usefulness as a cultural competence tool. This column reports demographic characteristics and evaluation scores among 423 providers who completed an online CFI training module developed through the New York State Office of Mental Health. Both the module, which uses the principle of active learning, and the CFI were associated with strong favorability ratings.
专业组织和政府指南建议为提供者提供文化能力培训，但缺乏标准化的文化评估阻碍了研究。使用 DSM-5 文化表述访谈 (CFI) 的研究表明，培训期间的主动学习可以提高对 CFI 作为文化能力工具的有用性的认识。本专栏报告了在纽约州心理健康办公室开发的在线 CFI 培训模块中完成的 423 名提供者的人口统计学特征和评估分数。使用主动学习原则的模块和 CFI 都与强烈的好评率相关。
