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    Fine-tuning Postgraduate Psychiatry Training in South Asia
    (SAGE Publications, 2024) Williams, S.S.
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    International collaboration to address the inevitable mental health burden in Sri Lanka in the context of the economic crisis
    (Elsevier, 2022) Shoib, S.; Rathnayake, L.; Badawy, M.M.; Swed, S.; Saeed, F.; Chandradasa, M.
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    Telepsychiatry for conflict-affected settings: Feasibility, ethics, barriers and prospects
    (Elsevier, 2022) Shoib, S.; Armiya'u, A.Y.; Roza, T.H.; Saeed, F.; Swed, S.; Arif, N.; Park, C.; Chandradasa, M.
    Telehealth is being broadly developed in all fields of medicine, and online visits seem a particularly suitable alternative to in-person visits in outpatient psychiatry especially in conflict setting. Telepsychiatry has numerous advantages over in-person visits.
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    A new paradigm in psychiatry: International research and clinical collaborations of early-career psychiatrists
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2022) Shoib, S.; Roza, T.H.; Lai, C.L.E.; Armiya'u, A.Y.; Saeed, F.; Kafle, B.; Chandradasa, M.
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    Revisiting the ATP 30: The factor structure of a scale measuring medical students' attitudes towards Psychiatry
    (Springer, 2021) Baminiwatta, A.; Chandradasa, M.; Dias, S.; Ediriweera, D.
    OBJECTIVE: Among the scales developed for assessing medical students' attitudes regarding psychiatry, "attitude towards psychiatry-30" (ATP-30) is probably the most widely used. Although this scale was originally deemed to form a unitary dimension without any meaningful subscales, the authors sought to re-examine its factor structure and the viability of subscales. METHOD: Secondary data from a survey of 743 final-year medical students from nine medical schools in Sri Lanka were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with promax rotation and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), to assess the underlying factor structure of ATP-30. Parallel analysis was used in determining the number of factors to retain. Items conceptually external to the emerging factors were discarded. RESULTS: Three models based on literature (one-, five-, and eight-factor) were disproved by CFA. A six-factor solution encompassing 18 items was supported by EFA and CFA and was gender-invariant. These factors were, namely, the image of psychiatrists, psychiatric patients and mental illness, the efficacy of treatment, psychiatric teaching, career choice, and psychiatry as an evidence-based discipline. While "the image of psychiatrists" formed the most consistent subscale (ω = 0.71), the internal consistencies of the other subscales were modest (ω = 0.55-0.67). The overall 18-item scale showed good internal consistency (ω = 0.78). CONCLUSION: The findings provide evidence of a multi-dimensional structure in medical students' attitudes towards psychiatry, endorsing six meaningful subscales of the ATP-30. Future researchers and educators can utilize these subscales in identifying specific areas where students' attitudes are more stigmatized, to be intervened during undergraduate training. KEYWORDS: ATP-30; Medical students; Psychiatry; Undergraduate education.
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    Telepsychiatry' in the time of COVID-19: Overcoming the challenges
    (Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020) Perera, S.R.; Gambheera, H.; Williams, S.
    ABSTRACT: Telepsychiatry, the application of telemedicine in the field of psychiatry is defined as the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide or support clinical psychiatric care at a distance. COVID 19 and its implications related to physical distancing for patients and service providers has made tele-psychiatry and e-consultations an attractive option. Psychiatry, more than any other field in medicine stands to benefit through tele-psychiatry as a physical examination may not be always necessary to arrive at a diagnosis. Some have gone on to suggest that tele psychiatry is likely to replace in person psychiatric assessments pertaining to certain clinical situations. The article reviews the existing evidence for tele-psychiatry and addresses the challenges and pitfalls in the South Asian context. © 2020 Indian Journal of Psychiatry Published by Wolters Kluwer-Medknow.
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    Psychiatry in Sri Lanka
    (Vikas Medical Publishers, Mumbai, 2005) Kuruppu, L.
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    Recruitment and retention of psychiatrists in low-income countries
    (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2008) Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.
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    Psychaitry in Sri Lanka
    (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1999) Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.; Rajakaruna, R.R.
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