Title :
Technology Enhanced Learning in Addiction Mental Health: Developing a Virtual Knowledge Network: NIMHANS ECHO
Author :
Chand, Prabhat ; Murthy, Pratima ; Gupta, V. ; Kandasamy, Arun ; Jayarajan, Deepak ; Sethu, Lakshmanan ; Benegal, Vivek ; Varghese, Merin ; Komaromy, Miriam ; Arora, Samarth
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Mental Health & Neuro Sci., Bangalore, India
Abstract :
Addiction or Substance Use Disorders (SUD) is a growing public health problem in India. There are very few trained health professionals to provide evidence based care for these conditions. We initiated a weekly tele-ECHO clinic to train health professionals in the recognition and management of Alcohol and tobacco use disorders. The preliminary results points towards the feasibility as well as acceptability of the ECHO model of training in addiction mental health. There is a need for more involvement of the health care providers in future NIMHANS ECHO Programs.
Keywords :
computer based training; health care; medical disorders; medical information systems; psychology; Extension of Community Health care Outcome project; India; NIMHANS ECHO; SUD; addiction mental health; alcohol use disorder; health professionals training; public health problem; substance use disorder; technology enhanced learning; tele-ECHO clinic; tobacco use disorder; virtual knowledge network; Educational institutions; Knowledge engineering; Public healthcare; Sociology; Training; NIMHANS ECHO; Substance Use Disorders; Virtual Knowledge Network;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Clappana
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2014.14
