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Support for Medical Students with Mental Health Problems: a Conceptual Model

Andrew Grant, Rix Andrew, Winter Peter, Karen Mattick, Debbie jones

Academic Psychiatry, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 16 - 21

Swansea University Author: Andrew Grant

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s40596-014-0154-3.

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ObjectiveMedical students experience higher prevalence of mental illness than age-matched controls and are less likely to access appropriate help when this happens. The aim of this study was to determine the range of strategies deployed by medical schools to support medical students with mental heal...

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Published: 2015
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description ObjectiveMedical students experience higher prevalence of mental illness than age-matched controls and are less likely to access appropriate help when this happens. The aim of this study was to determine the range of strategies deployed by medical schools to support medical students with mental health concerns and to use this to identify distinct categories.MethodsWebsites and documents relating to all 32 UK medical schools were looked at, as were reports for quality assurance visits carried out by the General Medical Council (UK). A structured telephone interview was carried out with medical schools. Support services were examined by tracing the path that might be taken by a hypothetical student with mental health concerns of varying severity, seeing what was required and what was available at each stage. ResultsA range of support strategies is available to most medical students both from their medical school and from generic services in the university. Medical students will usually first contact a personal tutor or a senior member of faculty or be contacted by them as a result of concerns raised either via performance issue or by another student While individual support interventions are mostly based on evidence of effectiveness there is no unifying theory in terms of what constitutes effective support. To enable analysis of support interventions and comparison across providers, a six-stage conceptual model of prevention was developed, The six stages are; prevention, identification, referral, escalation, treatment and reintegration.ConclusionsThe staged model, derived from analysis of existing interventions, provides a framework for evaluation of current provision and comparison of different methods of delivery. Moreover, it provides a framework for future research.
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