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

fYear

2014

fDate

18-21 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

232

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology for Education (T4E), 2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Clappana

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/T4E.2014.14

Filename

7009578