Measuring mental health professionals' trauma care competencies: psychometric properties of the novel readiness to work with trauma-exposed patients scale

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Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Measuring mental health professionals' trauma care competencies: psychometric properties of the novel readiness to work with trauma-exposed patients scale
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In the Journal:
Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy. 2023, 15 (Suppl 2), p. 427-435
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LT
Psichologija / Psychology; Profesinis ugdymas / Vocational education.
Summary / Abstract:

ENObjective: A lack of training in PTSD assessment and treatment can cause nonrecognition, misdiagnosis, or mistreatment of trauma-exposed patients in clinical practice. To fill the gap of the measures of trauma care-related competencies, the current study aimed to test psychometric properties of the novel Readiness to Work with Trauma-Exposed Patients Scale (RTEPS) in a sample of clinicians. Method: The study sample comprised 279 Lithuanian mental health professionals (91% psychologists and 9% psychiatrists). The mean age of study participants was 41.09 (SD = 10.68), 93.9% were female. Almost half of the participants (49.1%) had more than 10 years of work experience in the field of mental health, and 61.3% of clinicians reported routinely seeing trauma-exposed patients in their clinical practice. Results: Exploratory structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis revealed that a three-factor, first-order model of the 10-item self-report RTEPS comprising competencies of assessment, treatment, and affect tolerance showed the best fit for the data. Additionally, previous trauma-focused training experience but not work experience was significantly associated with perceived readiness to work with trauma-exposed patients while controlling for the rates of depression and anxiety of mental health professionals. Conclusions: The findings of the study provide evidence of the RTEPS validity based on test content, internal structure, relations to other variables as well as internal consistency. The RTEPS scale is a brief and easily administered instrument that could be used in the context of training or clinical setting to evaluate the trauma care competencies among professionals. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1037/tra0001231
ISSN:
1942-9681; 1942-969X
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2024-08-07 14:36:05
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