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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Workforce: A Critical Shortage and National Challenge

Abstract: Despite the decades-long projection of an increasing utilization of child and adolescent psychiatry services and an undersupply of child and adolescent psychiatrists, the actual growth and supply of child and adolescent psychiatrists have been very slow. Inadequate support in academic institutions, decreasing graduate medical education (GME) funding, decreasing clinical revenues in the managed care environment, and a devalued image of the profession have made academic child and adolescent psychiatry programs struggle for recruitment of both residents and faculty, although child and adolescent psychiatry has made impressive progress in its scientific knowledge base through research, especially in neuroscience and developmental science. While millions of young people suffer from severe mental illnesses, there are only about 6,300 child and adolescent psychiatrists practicing in the United States. There is also a severe maldistribution of child and adolescent psychiatrists, especially in rural and poor, urban areas where access is significantly reduced. By any method of workforce analysis, it is evident that there will continue to be a shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists well into the future. Medical/psychiatric educators have a mission to encourage medical students and general psychiatry residents to enter child and adolescent psychiatry and provide crucial mental health care and health care advocacy for our country’s youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This article stems from the work of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Task Force on Work Force Needs, which led to its 10-year recruitment initiative. (Academic Psychiatry 2003; 27:277–282)

Therapeutic Alliance as a Measurable Psychotherapy Skill

Abstract: Out of the Babel of psychotherapy models, concepts, and techniques, the therapeutic alliance stands out as a measurable phenomenon that has been shown to have a robust effect on treatment outcome. The therapeutic alliance may be a “holy grail” of psychotherapy competency because it is a validated concept that is predictive of outcome, more powerfully predictive than alternative indices, clearly defined, easily measured, and may have educational and training value. This communication reviews the concept of therapeutic alliance, the methods for measuring it, and its relationship with outcome. We also summarize the literature on how trainees acquire the ability to develop a therapeutic alliance, and evaluate the pedagogical techniques for improving trainees’ skills in this area. Finally, we present recommendations for the use of therapeutic alliance measurement in residency training for competency assessment purposes, and for pedagogical approaches for improving residents’ therapeutic alliance building skills.

How to Do Research With Self-Administered Surveys

Abstract: Given the absence of brief "how to do it" articles on self-administered survey research, the author presents suggestions for conducting and publishing questionnaire research successfully. The article covers choosing a topic, framing a core research question that can be tested scientifically with survey data, respecting the study subjects' time and pride, keeping the survey materials succinct, being persistent, and guaranteeing study subjects' anonymity or confidentiality.

Encountering Suicide: The Experience of Psychiatric Residents

Abstract: Objective: The authors sought to determine how often psychiatric residents encountered completed suicide, how it affected them, and what supports were available and most useful to them. Methods: Psychiatric residents completed questionnaires about their encounters with completed suicide during residency. Questionnaire items asked about the resident’s relationship to the deceased, the impact of the suicide on the resident, what supports were available and useful to residents, and whether residents had received education about suicide. Postgraduate education directors were similarly surveyed about their programs. Results: Of 197 respondents, 61.4% had encountered one or more completed suicides during their residency. Of the suicides, 61% were by patients and 16.5% by a colleague, friend, or relative; 22.3% of the residents had encountered both. The most common context was suicide by a patient the resident had seen on call or in consultation; next was suicide by a fellow physician. The greatest impact on residents was on their emotional health, followed by how they assess patients and their medicolegal view of psychiatry. Friends and fellow residents were identified as significant supports. Residents were reluctant to use employee assistance programs, citing confidentiality and insurance issues. Only one-third of residents received education on the impact of suicide on trainees. Postgraduate education directors’ responses closely reflected those of residents. Only one-third of postgraduate education directors reported having a policy in place in the event of suicide. Conclusions: Suicide is a commonly encountered, stressful event for trainees. Additional supports, education, and policies should be implemented to address this issue.

Factors affecting medical student career choice of psychiatry from 1999 to 2001.

Abstract: Objective: The proportion of students matching into psychiatry (PMP) at each medical school results from a complex interplay between extrinsic (e.g., national trends, geographic region) and intrinsic factors (e.g., the quality of psychiatric education). The goal of the study was to learn the extent to which regional and local extrinsic factors (and one intrinsic factor) influenced PMP at medical schools in the U.S. from 1999 to 2001. Methods: The authors obtained data about these factors from deans of student affairs, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), American Medical Association (AMA), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), American Psychiatric Association (APA), and Harvard University’s HealthSystem Consortium. Results: The best predictor of a school’s PMP is the PMP of the prior year for that particular school. Local and regional extrinsic factors were not significantly associated with PMP. There was a modest inverse correlation between PMP and the proportion of international medical graduates (IMGs) in psychiatry residency. Conclusions: The authors infer that intrinsic factors are most important for recruitment, and they make recommendations for addressing these factors.

Psychotherapy Competencies: Development and Implementation

Abstract: New requirements by the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education maintain that residents must be competent in five specified psychotherapies. This shift toward evidence-based education and assessment high-lights psychotherapy as an integral part of a psychiatrist’s training and identity, while introducing accountability of training programs, faculty, and individual residents. Training directors must now find the resources in faculty, patients, and residency teaching time to teach, supervise and assess residents so they graduate with competency. The American Association of Directors of Residency Training (AADPRT) appointed a Task Force on Competency to assist training directors with the new requirements. The Task Force, through the establishment of five workgroups, has written sample competencies for each required psychotherapy: brief, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, supportive and combined psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. In this article, the authors describe the historical context of the new requirements, and the goals, process and issues that arose in the development of the sample competencies.

Complications Associated With Surveying Medical Student Depression The Importance of Anonymity

Abstract: Objective: To evaluate students’ attitudes and concerns regarding potential repercussions of completing the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Methods: A survey based on focus group data was developed and distributed. Results: One hundred and ninety-one of 400 surveys (48%) were returned. Of 160 students who remembered completing the BDI, 31 (19%) admitted to concerns about the research, and nearly 10% admitted to recording dishonest answers. Conclusions: These findings emphasize the importance of conducting anonymous assessments of medical students, particularly when assessing sensitive psychological states.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Blueprint for Attaining and Assessing Psychiatry Resident Competency

Abstract: Background: The Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Psychiatry of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) now requires that all psychiatric residency programs demonstrate competency for all psychiatric residents in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Objective: To increase awareness about specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to perform competent CBT, optimal teaching methods available to insure competency, and valid assessment tools and resources available to training programs. Methods: Literature review and discussion of common features of successful training programs. Results and Conclusions: Training programs have resources and standardized methods of training, supervision, and assessment available to help residents meet the ACGME mandated competency requirements in CBT.

Recruitment of U.S. medical graduates into psychiatry: reasons for optimism, sources of concern.

Abstract: The authors explain the importance of recruiting U.S. medical graduates into psychiatry, give reasons for optimism about future recruitment, express concerns about problems that could hinder it, and recommend ways to address these concerns. Reasons for optimism include: features of the specialty, such as its focus on the doctor/patient relationship;its increasing job availability and incomes; its scientific achievements; the peaking and possible fading of the National Generalist Initiative; and a 5-year upward recruitment trend. Concerns are: low “overt” interest in psychiatry among entering medical students; clerkship directors’ perceptions of a negative educational impact of managed care; graduating seniors’ suboptimal satisfaction with their psychiatry clerkships; and what is likely to be a small impact of New Mexico legislation on prescribing privileges for psychologists. The authors make recommendations for addressing these concerns.

Selected Characteristics and Data of Psychiatrists in the United States, 2001–2002

Abstract: Objective: To provide basic data about the physician workforce as a whole and the relative place of psychiatrists in the total workforce. To provide data on characteristics of psychiatrists’ work activities in routine psychiatric practice. Method: Data were obtained from the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the United States, 2002–2003 and the 2002 National Survey of Psychiatric Practice, a nationally representative survey of 2,000 randomly selected psychiatrists in the United States. Results: Psychiatry is the fourth largest specialty in the United States. Since 1970, psychiatry has grown 86.7%, while child psychiatry has grown 194.6%. However, psychiatrists are distributed unequally across the country, are working fewer hours than in the past, and less of their time is spent in direct patient care activities. Conclusions: Psychiatry is a growing and significant part of the U.S. physician workforce. However, if trends that show the psychiatric workforce is aging and working fewer hours continue, it is unclear if its current rate of growth will be able to keep pace with the demand for psychiatric services.

How Competent Are We to Assess Psychotherapeutic Competence in Psychiatric Residents

Abstract: Background: The Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Psychiatry has mandated that training programs “must demonstrate that residents have achieved competency in at least the following forms of treatment: brief therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, combined psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, psychodynamic therapy, and supportive therapy.” Aim: To analyze the extent to which programs can realistically demonstrate that residents have achieved summative competency in these modalities. Method: We briefly review methods from other fields for assuring procedural competence, review methods available to psychiatric educators for assuring competencies in psychotherapy, and assess these methods for their adequacy. Results: Available and foreseeable assessment methods are incapable of demonstrating that residents achieve summative competency in the five specified psychotherapies or of definitively distinguishing potentially dangerous practitioners from safe practitioners. At best, educators may be able to assure formative competencies, including mastery of core knowledge of the psychotherapies, actual undertaking of these psychotherapies, and adequate performance in selected elements of these psychotherapies. Conclusions: Since it is unrealistic to assume that training programs will ever be able to confirm summative competencies in these psychotherapies, we advise programs to define precisely the levels of formative competence they expect, and design curriculum and measures accordingly. Further, we urge the RRC to revise their requirements to address expectations more honestly, and to re-state the expected competencies more modestly. We believe that the RRC can expect programs to show that all residents can demonstrate knowledge about the evidence base, theories and rules of practice supporting at least the following forms of treatment: brief therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, combined psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, psychodynamic therapy, and supportive therapy. We also believe that programs might be asked to demonstrate by means of patient logs and other forms of documentation that all residents have at least conducted such types of psychotherapy under qualified supervision.

Evaluating competence in psychotherapy.

Abstract: Background: The Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Psychiatry has recently charged psychiatry training programs with developing methods to demonstrate competence of trainees in five areas of psychotherapy. Each program must decide what specific skills are essential for competence in each of the five listed psychotherapies. This requires determining whether those skills that are necessary are also sufficient for effective psychotherapy and whether additional specific skills are required for each one. Method: Two lists of general skills for psychotherapy are compared, one from the perspective of specific “schools” of psychotherapy and one from a more eclectic “integrative” approach. The issue of measuring competence is addressed by placing ratings of “competent” midway on a continuum from “novice” to “expert.” Thirteen methods for measuring competence from the Accreditation Council for Graduate medical Education (ACGME) “tool-box” are described and reviewed with respect to applicability to psychotherapy. Examples of toolbox implementation are described based on a functioning psychotherapy evaluation program at the University of Missouri. Results and Conclusions: The authors found both theoretical as well as practical problems in measuring competence in psychotherapy. We propose that global rather than highly specific assessment methods may be more practical in these early stages of development, and we offer specific suggestions for assessment components that can currently be implemented.

Incorporating pain management training into the psychiatry residency curriculum.

Abstract: Pain management has received increased attention from the medical community, influenced by societal demands for more effective and comprehensive treatment. In fact, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations requires that physicians consider pain as "the fifth vital sign." It requires that pain severity be documented by using a standardized pain scale. Unfortunately, the assessment and management of pain is difficult. Pain is more than a sensation; it is influenced by emotional, cognitive, and psychosocial factors. The role of the psychiatrist in managing patients with pain has received increasing attention. The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology now offers a subspecialty certification in Pain Management. While certification is warranted for those who practice extensively in this area, the general psychiatrist should also have familiarity with those issues that are likely to arise in treating patients with pain. Toward this end, the following guidelines are proposed for pain management training to be incorporated into the residency training curriculum.

Beyond a beautiful mind: film choices for teaching schizophrenia.

Abstract: For psychiatric educators interested in using film to teach professional and lay audiences about schizophrenia, the 2001 release of A Beautiful Mind has made the process much easier. The movie shows a range of symptoms and complications, and it gives viewers-especially patients and families-hope for recovery. However, many other commercial films depict various aspects of the illness, and the choice of which one to use is determined by the audience, the pedagogical focus, and the time available. Clean, Shaven (1995), for instance, may be more challenging for professional audiences. Psychiatric educators should familiarize themselves with the variety of film options when teaching about schizophrenia.

Spirituality in Medicine: A Comparison of Medical Students’ Attitudes and Clinical Performance

Abstract: Objective: The authors sought to examine attitudes about spirituality in medicine among medical students in psychiatric clerkships and determine whether instruction on concepts of spirituality in medicine had an effect on students’ clinical performance in related tasks. Methods: A total of 192 students entering psychiatric clerkships were randomly assigned to one of two groups; both groups received identical didactic instruction on spirituality in medicine. One group worked on a problem-based learning case that featured spirituality as a prominent theme, whereas the other group worked on problem- based learning cases that made no mention of it. Students completed pre- and posttest questionnaires, and their examination at the end of rotation included a standardized patient encounter requiring them to elicit a spiritual history. Results: Among the 131 students who completed and returned both questionnaires, a significant difference (p = 0.001) was noted between groups on students’ self-reported knowledge of taking a spiritual history. However, students in the two groups received identical scores on the component of the examination requiring them to write a spiritual history. Conclusions: Although students who were exposed to material on spirituality in medicine reported greater understanding of the issue, no difference in clinical performance was observed.

Recent Trends in Psychiatry Residency Workforce With Special Reference to International Medical Graduates

Abstract: Objective: This study examines trends in the supply, distribution, and demographics of psychiatry residents during the 1990s. It evaluates the extent to which the predicted downsizing of psychiatry residency training programs actually occurred and how it affected training programs of different sizes and locations. Method: Data for this study were obtained from the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Annual Survey of Graduate Medical Education (GME) Programs, the AMA GME directory, and the APA Graduate Medical Census. The study compares the roles played by international medical graduates (IMGs) in contrast to U.S. medical graduates (USMGs) in these trends. Results: There was a significant decline in the number of residents during the years studied. The median training program size also decreased. International medical graduates found broad acceptance in training programs of all locations and sizes, including medical school based programs. Implications of the findings are discussed regarding the impact of current graduate medical education (GME) and immigration policies on future workforce patterns. Conclusion: The field will have to decide whether it can afford anymore residency downsizing in light of emerging evidence of a shortage of psychiatrists.

OD's and DT's: using movies to teach intoxication and withdrawal syndromes to medical students.

Abstract: Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether second-year medical students believed that the use of movies helped them to learn about intoxication and withdrawal syndromes. Methods: A videotape was made by transferring clips of various commercially available films as well as clips from several television news shows and a training film displaying intoxication and withdrawal syndromes. Students attending the lecture were asked to complete a brief, anonymous questionnaire following the lecture. Results: More than 90% of the 89 respondents believed that the clips helped them to recognize these syndromes and appreciate their potential severity. All students believed that the movie clips would help them remember the syndromes, with greater than 90% reporting that it would help very much. Conclusions: The use of movie clips appears to be a useful tool in teaching medical students about intoxication and withdrawal syndromes seen with various substances of abuse.

Current factors affecting the choice of psychiatry as a specialty: an Italian study.

Abstract: Objective: This study examined the differential impact of factors hypothesized to affect the choice of psychiatry as a specialty in Italy. Method: A 38-item Likert-type questionnaire about factors that potentially affect the choice of a career in psychiatry was administered to 97 Italian medical school graduates sitting for an admission examination to psychiatric residencies and to 82 colleagues sitting for an admission examination to an internal medicine residency. The two groups’ ratings on the questionnaire items were compared. Results: Response rates were 49.5% and 45.1%, respectively, for the psychiatry and the internal medicine groups. Future psychiatrists did not differ from future internists in sociodemographic characteristics. They rated 13 factors on the questionnaire more positively than did their colleagues who were pursuing internal medicine, and many had chosen psychiatry very early (40% had done so before medical school). Some of the more positively rated factors were experience with mental illness either personally or by a relative or close friend, efficacy of psychiatric treatments, the degree to which psychiatric practice is perceived to be evidence based, research opportunities, and curiosity about the topic of “madness.” Conclusions: Findings confirm earlier work in North American samples showing a substantial cross-cultural consistency in motives for choosing psychiatry as a discipline. A strong, early interest and curiosity among these students, often present in the premedical and preclerkship years, suggests some benefit in targeting this group for recruitment.

Teaching normal development using stimulus videotapes in psychiatric education.

Abstract: This article examines the educational principles supporting the use of stimulus videotapes. General principles of using videotape in teaching are discussed, followed by a specific review of the literature regarding the uses of videotape in psychiatric education. The literature on the use of stimulus videotape in psychiatric education is reviewed, with particular attention to its use in teaching normal development.

Competency Assessment in the McMaster Psychotherapy Program

Abstract: In January 2001 the Residency Review Committee (RRC) mandated that all psychiatric training programs must demonstrate competency in five forms of psychotherapy. Assessing competency in psychotherapy is a complex and difficult task, with many conceptual and practical issues needing consideration before programs are implemented. Existing competency-based programs can offer some assistance to institutions struggling with this issue. This paper discusses competency assessment in the McMaster Psychotherapy Program, paying special attention to instruments used in the evaluation process. Preliminary results with respect to resident satisfaction with the Program and resident competency in certain therapies are also discussed.

Bridging the gap: recruitment of African-American women into mental health research studies.

Abstract: Objective To develop a strategy for recruiting African-American women into a research study for pregnant women. Methods With few exceptions, NIH-funded investigators must include women and minorities in clinical research. The authors used the recommendations provided in the Outreach Notebook for the NIH Guidelines on Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research as a guide to help them reach out to African-American women in the community. Results and conclusions The outreach experience led to a conference for African-American women about mental health. On the basis of this experience, the authors formulated a five-pronged approach for recruitment of African-American women into their study. The NIH guidelines were useful for this purpose.

Use of the mechanistic case diagramming technique to teach the biopsychosocial-cultural formulation to psychiatric clerks.

Abstract: Objective: Biopsychosocial-cultural formulation is an essential skill for medical students to become familiar with during their psychiatry clerkship. The authors describe their use of mechanistic case diagramming to demonstrate to students, in a single teaching session, how to construct a biopsychosocial-cultural formulation, and they present results of an evaluation of the session’s effect on students. Methods: Questionnaires exploring students’ views and understanding of biopsychosocial-cultural formulation were administered to 16 students before and after teaching sessions. Results: Significant increases were observed after the teaching sessions in self-reported understanding of and comfort with presenting a biopsychosocial-cultural formulation and in ratings of the importance of showing linkages between biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Conclusions: The technique of mechanistic case diagramming may be a useful approach for teaching biopsychosocial-cultural formulation.

A Sociological Calendar of Transitional Stages During Psychiatry Residency Training

Abstract: Objective: In 1975, Donald Light, Jr., presented a “sociological calendar” as a paradigm for describing the important dimensions and stages of social and professional development in psychiatric residency training. The authors sought to develop an updated calendar and to determine if the calendar is consistent with attitudes of residents in various stages of their training. Methods: A new sociological calendar was developed after conducting a focus group with chief residents. The Osgood Semantic Differential Survey (OSD) was used to measure residents’ attitudes, and the results were compared with the modified calendar. Results: The updated calendar differs considerably from Light’s original calendar. Findings from the OSD were generally consistent with the updated calendar. Conclusions: A modern sociological calendar illustrates the relatively predictable transitions that residents go through over the course of their training. By better understanding these stages of development, supervisors and residency directors may become more effective in their teaching and support efforts.

Assessing Psychotherapy Competence: A Beginning

Abstract: The recent requirement by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education’s Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Psychiatry that programs “must demonstrate that residents have achieved competency” in at least five forms of psychotherapy, including brief therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, combined psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, psychodynamic therapy, and supportive therapy, certainly got the field’s attention. The requirements come as the result of several historical trends, including rising interest in medicine to increase public accountability through demonstrations of practitioner competence (1,2), ongoing efforts over past decades to improve the quality of psychiatric training, as exemplified by several national conferences and activities of the American Association of Directors of Residency Training (AADPRT) (3,4), and specific interests within the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and other organizations to ensure that psychotherapy training remains a high priority for the profession (5,6). Just when forces such as managed care and the strong ascendance of biological psychiatry threatened to decrease the relevance of psychotherapy for psychiatric practice, the juggernaut defining specialty-specific competencies in graduate medical education presented those in organized psychiatry who value psychotherapy a unique opportunity to require strengthening of psychotherapy training in residency programs. Along with mandates for the six general competencies required of all medical specialties, the only new specific competencies enacted by psychiatry’s RRC focus on psychotherapies. These developments carry a range of implications. The good news is that increased attention and resources will have to be devoted to psychotherapy training, shifting from very nonspecific expectations in order to concentrate on specific goals, quality and quantity of teaching, skill acquisition and accountability. The well-intended result should be to strengthen psychotherapy training in all programs, some of which have, historically, offered little psychotherapy training of any sort. Difficulties that must be reckoned with include already overloaded training directors and departments now having to contend with several intended and unintended challenging consequences stemming from these requirements. First, mandating competencies means that resources will have to be devoted not only to providing all the specific types of psychotherapy training (not readily available in many departments) but also to assessing residents’ competencies. The bureaucratic headaches may be considerable. Second, it becomes quickly obvious that definitions of competence are not self-evident, and agreements as to how such competencies can be meaningfully assessed are not universally shared. One important cautionary comment concerning competence assessment was recently offered by Michael Whitcomb, the editor of Academic Medicine (7), who suggests that graduate medical education programs should not be required to develop and im

Implications of a needs-based approach to estimating psychiatric workforce requirements.

Abstract: The author reviews a needs-based approach to estimating psychiatric workforce requirements that entails five determinations: (1) number of people with mental health problems, (2) number of people needing mental health treatment, (3) number of people needing psychiatric treatment, (4) amount of psychiatric time required to meet patient needs, and (5) amount of time psychiatrists have available to provide direct patient care. Questions, issues, and strategies raised by the needs-based approach are outlined. The author suggests that only a coordinated, carefully orchestrated effort among national psychiatric organizations will ensure that the future psychiatric workforce is adequate to meet the needs of the mentally ill.

Assessing residents' competence in psychotherapy.

Abstract: Objective: This paper describes the development of a method for assessing resident competence in the five forms of psychotherapy specified in the program requirements for residency training in psychiatry. Method: Concomitant with the rise of evidence-based medicine. There has been a movement toward evidence-based training from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). In the year 2000, the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for psychiatry issued specific requirements for the assessment of residency competence competence in five forms of psychotherapy. This paper describes how a system of assessment was developed using “brainstorming” and the Delphi method to meet these requirements and gives examples of the assessment tools that were utilized. Conclusion: A simple system that does not overly tax limited faculty resources can be developed to meet the new RRC requirements.

Assessing Sexual Health Behaviors of Resident Physicians and Graduate Students

Abstract: Objective: To compare the sexual practices of 44 resident physicians with those of 88 nonmedical graduate students, including law students and master’s-level social work students, by using the Safe Sex Behavioral Questionnaire (SSBQ). Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, the SSBQ, used to assess the sexual practices of these two groups, was distributed to participants at a state university via their campus mailboxes, along with a return address envelope, to help ensure anonymity. Results: The educational cohorts did not differ. Overall, participants reported engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors. Women with multiple partners were more likely to engage in increased risky behaviors, whereas men with multiple partners were more likely to use condoms. Conclusions: Physicians, although educated about healthy sexual behaviors, are still engaging in unsafe safe. The reasons for the discrepancy between knowledge and practice need to be explored.