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Joint training linked to higher behavioural emergency confidence
Interprofessional continuing education for prehospital behavioral emergency response: a city-wide pre-post study in Taiwan
BMC Medical Education · 2026-10-19 · Added 21 October 2026
City-wide single-group pre-post evaluation of a 4-hour interprofessional behavioural-emergency course in Taiwan: self-efficacy rose from 3.16 to 3.54 (dz 0.76) and cognition rose in the 395 paired attendees, but stigma scores did not improve; the authors note these are pre-post associations, not causal evidence.
- Study type
- Cohort
- Design
- Single-group pre-post study
- Participants
- 750 attendees, 395 in the paired analysis
- Main finding
- Self-efficacy rose from 3.16 to 3.54 (mean difference 0.39, 95% CI 0.34–0.44, dz 0.76) and cognition from 3.81 to 3.95; behavioural-emergency stigma rose slightly and substance-use stigma was unchanged
- Caveat
- Uncontrolled single-group design with anonymous demographic linkage and immediate self-reported outcomes only
- Bottom line
- Context only
Why it matters in Australia (Medium relevance). Training paramedics alongside police, fire and mental health clinicians speaks directly to Australian co-response and joint-training debates, though this ran in a different EMS system with no control group.
Learning goal
Strengthen my interprofessional collaboration when managing behavioural emergencies alongside mental health clinicians.
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- Topic: Education & training
- Daily scan: 21 October 2026
- Podcast: Paramedic Papers Daily, 21 October 2026
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