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Article

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Texas Psychologist

Abstract

Due to the high prevalence of trauma and secondary trauma and the associated potential adverse health outcomes for both patients and providers, it is imperative that medical and allied professionals receive training in trauma as a constitutive element of their professional development. Despite the growing recognition of the importance of TIC, Ditcher and colleagues (2018) found in a survey of 263 family medicine residency programs that only 27.0% had TIC in the curriculum. Following a review of the literature and discussions with healthcare providers offering TIC in an integrated pediatric primary care setting, a brief, 45-minute online TIC training adapted for medical and allied healthcare students was developed. The current study tested the effectiveness of this training, which sought to expose students and trainees in healthcare fields to the concept of trauma and its effects on patients and providers. The training was also designed to offer practical guidance on providing TIC. Researchers hypothesized that study participants would experience gains in knowledge and perceived efficacy, as evidenced by pre- and post-training survey responses. Additionally, researchers posited that gains would be maintained over time, as demonstrated by scores on a 3-month follow-up survey.

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Publication Date

2022

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