@article{ref1,
title="Medical Students' Acquisition of Adolescent Interview Skills after Coached Role Play",
journal="Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology",
year="2018",
author="Kaul, Paritosh and Fisher, Jennifer H. and Hanson, Janice L.",
volume="31",
number="2",
pages="102-106",
abstract="STUDY OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate an educational activity designed to teach the adolescent Home, Education and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Sexuality, Suicide/depression, and Safety (HEADS) examination. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, INTERVENTIONS, AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Participants were third-year medical students in their pediatric clerkships. Students received an article on the HEADS interview and attended an adolescent medicine educational session. The session included individualized goal-setting and coached role play. Students' skills in doing a HEADS interview were evaluated through a standardized patient encounter (SPE) with a checklist and a retrospective pre- and post-test survey. The SPE checklist was used to assess whether the students included questions in 6 key areas of a HEADS interview. RESULTS: One hundred fifty-two students participated. During the SPE, 90% of students queried the adolescent's home life, 91% education, 82% activities, 84% drug/substance abuse, 95% sexual history, and 61% symptoms of depression. Pre- and postintervention data were compared using the Kruskal-Wallis Test and showed a statistically significant difference in the students' ability to list key topic areas of the HEADS exam (P < .001) and to use the skills needed for an adolescent interview using the HEADS exam (P < .001). CONCLUSION: After an introduction to the HEADS examination, most students covered almost all of the topic areas of this screening interview during a SPE. Only three-fifths of the students, however, included questions about symptoms of depression. Coached role play with goal-setting facilitated effective learning of this approach to adolescent interviewing.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1083-3188",
doi="10.1016/j.jpag.2017.11.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2017.11.003"
}