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Training on the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Improves Cultural Competence in General Psychiatry Residents: A Multi-site Study

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Abstract

Objective

The authors assessed whether a 1-h didactic session on the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) improves cultural competence of general psychiatry residents.

Methods

Psychiatry residents at six residency programs completed demographics and pre-intervention questionnaires, were exposed to a 1-h session on the CFI, and completed a post-intervention questionnaire. Repeated measures ANCOVA compared pre- to post-intervention change. Linear regression assessed whether previous cultural experience predicted post-intervention scores.

Results

Mean scores on the questionnaire significantly changed from pre- to post-intervention (p < 0.001). Previous cultural experience did not predict post-intervention scores.

Conclusions

Psychiatry residents’ cultural competence scores improved with a 1-h session on the CFI but with notable limitations.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program administration and resident physicians of LAC + USC Medical Center, USD, Dalhousie University, UCD, MUSC, VA Tech Carilion; Jennifer Perillo, PhD; the APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program of 2014/2015.

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  1. Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Stacia Mills

  2. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Kate Wolitzky-Taylor & Anna Q. Xiao

  3. Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Marie Claire Bourque

  4. University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA

    Sandra M. Peynado Rojas & Debanjana Bhattacharya

  5. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    Annabelle K. Simpson

  6. University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Aleea Maye, Pachida Lo, Russell Lim & Francis G. Lu

  7. Virginia Tech, Carilion, Roanoke, VA, USA

    Aaron Clark

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Russell Lim, MD, MEd is the editor of The Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry, 1st ed., APPI, 2006 and The Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry, 2nd ed., APPI, 2015. The remaining authors have nothing to disclose.

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Mills, S., Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Xiao, A.Q. et al. Training on the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Improves Cultural Competence in General Psychiatry Residents: A Multi-site Study. Acad Psychiatry 40, 829–834 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0551-x

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