Can a short-term training course improve the primary-care physicians' attitudes toward mental health problems?

Objective: To measure changes in the attitude of Primary Health Care (PHC) physicians towards mental illnesses after a short-term training course. In addition, to ascertain if this change would persist 6 months after the training course.

Method: This is an intervention type study.

A computer program to fit a family and community medicine set-up.

A local Personal Computer (PC) network program has been designed to improve training and patient care in Family and Community Medicine set-up. The software was designed to cope with the different clinical, preventive, promotive and statistical programs of the teaching set-up. This system serves multiple levels of patient priority, assigning each patient to an individual health team staff.