Child Psychiatry research wins first place at SOPNIA congress
7/11/2024Child Psychiatry research wins first place at SOPNIA congress
Last year, first place for research presented at the SOPNIA Congress was won by the study ‘Feasibility and effectiveness of a programme to facilitate networking in child and adolescent mental health’, which was part of a FONIS project led by Dr. Fanny Leyton, professor at the UV School of Medicine and researcher at CIESAL.
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For the second consecutive year, UV Paediatric Psychiatry residents’ research work wins first place at the SOPNIA congress.
On this occasion, the team included the participation of a resident from Georgetown University, as part of the exchange programme that both universities have been running in this area for more than a decade.
For the second consecutive year, a group of residents from the Paediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry programme of the Universidad de Valparaíso School of Medicine won first place for the presentation of research papers at the congress of the Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology (SOPNIA).
The 2024 edition of this annual meeting, which was recently held in Pucón, Araucanía Region, was attended by more than a hundred domestic and international specialists, health professionals, scholarship holders and undergraduate students from different higher education institutions, clinical centres and unions.
The UV team that won this category comprised residents Miguel Núñez, Macarena González, Francisca de la Barra (third year) and Danixa Venegas (fourth year), and the resident from Georgetown University (United States), Ruthzaine López, as well as psychologist and independent researcher Dominique Roig, who were supervised by doctors, professors and researchers from the aforementioned universities, Fanny Leyton and Corey Williams, respectively.
Their work was entitled ‘Cultural humility in adult and child and adolescent psychiatry residents: a binational and mixed study’ and arose as a result of the exchange programme in this field that has existed between both academic institutions for more than a decade, which has contributed to promoting knowledge and the exchange of experiences between students and teachers of Paediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Universidad de Valparaíso and Georgetown University.
A new model
According to Miguel Núñez, the proposal presented by the UV team at this year’s congress addresses the fact that different schools of psychiatry around the world have sought to integrate the ‘cultural competence’ model into their curricula, which places the professional as expert and emphasises the acquisition of a limited amount of knowledge. Such a model has allowed for some adaptation to local contexts, but due to its heterogeneity, it has become difficult to standardise.
‘In response to the above, the model of “cultural humility” has emerged, in which the professional frees himself from the position of expert and emphasises the development of attitudes throughout life, such as the ability to adopt an attitude of curiosity and respect towards the culture of the other, self-reflection and criticism, self-awareness about one’s own strengths, limitations and beliefs that might impact on the other, and to achieve positive supportive interactions that allow power differences to diminish,’ Núñez said.
In effect, the aim of the study was to evaluate the perspectives of barriers and facilitators in the development of cultural humility and their level of trust, which was self-assessed at UV and Georgetown University, respectively, through a scale and the application of semi-structured interviews.
According to Miguel Núñez, the results were quite interesting and allow us to understand the perspective of both centres and to gather positive characteristics of the groups involved, as well as to understand which areas should be strengthened.
‘An interesting result, for example, is that in general there is a high self-perceived level of cultural humility, which could be due to the overlap with the psychiatrist’s soft skills. However, the facilitating factors were mostly due to the attitudes of the residents, which leads us to reflect on the importance of incorporating the institution and our supervisors in this process for further development on these issues. We hope that these results will allow more dialogue on this matter and allow us to develop a strategy for implementation, both in our speciality and in other specialities or even undergraduate programmes,’ said the Paediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry programme resident at the Universidad de Valparaíso School of Medicine.
Last year, first place in the research presented at the SOPNIA Congress was awarded to the work entitled ‘Feasibility and effectiveness of a programme to facilitate networking in child and adolescent mental health’, which was part of a FONIS project led by Dr. Fanny Leyton. This meeting was attended by residents Miguel Núñez, Macarena González and Francisca de la Barra, who were joined by the students and teachers of the aforementioned project Marcelo Briceño, Carolina Godoy, Karla Álvarez, Eva Madrid and Ximena Velasco.
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