Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Speech Pathology in a Regional Australian Community

(1) Background: This study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and the perceptions of speech pathology held by a sample of regional mental health practitioners and to explore factors that facilitate understanding of the roles of speech pathologists in mental health. While mental health is reco...

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Autores principales:	Tina Janes, Tania Signal, Barbra Zupan
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	communication mental health awareness of speech pathology Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2f1d04fc82164390b26f5035bca8ef242021-11-25T17:44:38ZMental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Speech Pathology in a Regional Australian Community10.3390/healthcare91114852227-9032https://doaj.org/article/2f1d04fc82164390b26f5035bca8ef242021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/11/1485https://doaj.org/toc/2227-9032(1) Background: This study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and the perceptions of speech pathology held by a sample of regional mental health practitioners and to explore factors that facilitate understanding of the roles of speech pathologists in mental health. While mental health is recognised as an area of practice by Speech Pathology Australia, the inclusion of speech pathologists in mental health teams is limited. (2) Methods: An anonymous online survey was created using previously validated surveys and author generated questions and distributed to mental health practitioners in Central Queensland, Australia. (3) Results: Mental health practitioners had difficulty identifying speech pathology involvement when presented with case scenarios. Accuracy was poor for language-based cases, ranging from 28.81% to 37.29%. Participants who reported having worked with a speech pathologist were more likely to demonstrate higher scores on the areas of practice questions, [<i>r</i>(53) = 0.301, <i>p</i> = 0.028], and the language scenarios [<i>r</i>(58) = 0.506, <i>p</i> < 0.001]. They were also more likely to agree to statements regarding the connection between speech pathology and mental health, <i>r</i>(59) = 0.527, <i>p</i> < 0.001. (4) Conclusions: As found in this study, contact with speech pathologists is a strong predictor of mental health providers’ knowledge of the speech pathology profession. Thus, the challenge may be to increase this contact with mental health providers to promote inclusion of speech pathologists in the mental health domain.Tina JanesTania SignalBarbra ZupanMDPI AGarticlecommunicationmental healthawareness of speech pathologyMedicineRENHealthcare, Vol 9, Iss 1485, p 1485 (2021)
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description	(1) Background: This study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and the perceptions of speech pathology held by a sample of regional mental health practitioners and to explore factors that facilitate understanding of the roles of speech pathologists in mental health. While mental health is recognised as an area of practice by Speech Pathology Australia, the inclusion of speech pathologists in mental health teams is limited. (2) Methods: An anonymous online survey was created using previously validated surveys and author generated questions and distributed to mental health practitioners in Central Queensland, Australia. (3) Results: Mental health practitioners had difficulty identifying speech pathology involvement when presented with case scenarios. Accuracy was poor for language-based cases, ranging from 28.81% to 37.29%. Participants who reported having worked with a speech pathologist were more likely to demonstrate higher scores on the areas of practice questions, [<i>r</i>(53) = 0.301, <i>p</i> = 0.028], and the language scenarios [<i>r</i>(58) = 0.506, <i>p</i> < 0.001]. They were also more likely to agree to statements regarding the connection between speech pathology and mental health, <i>r</i>(59) = 0.527, <i>p</i> < 0.001. (4) Conclusions: As found in this study, contact with speech pathologists is a strong predictor of mental health providers’ knowledge of the speech pathology profession. Thus, the challenge may be to increase this contact with mental health providers to promote inclusion of speech pathologists in the mental health domain.
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title	Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Speech Pathology in a Regional Australian Community
title_short	Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Speech Pathology in a Regional Australian Community
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Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Speech Pathology in a Regional Australian Community

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