Correcting biases in psychiatric diagnostic practice in Northwest Russia: Comparing the impact of a general educational program and a specific diagnostic training program

Table 2 Correct responses (%) and sumscores for the primary psychiatric diagnosis before (T1) and after (T2) a specific educational program in diagnostic coding (intervention group) compared with responses by psychiatrists before (T1) and after (T2) a general educational program (control group)

Case	Intervention group N = 45		Control group N = 39
	Before (%)	After (%)	Before (%)	After (%)	¹p-value	²p-value	³p-value
Dementia in Alzheimers disease (F 00.0)	67	93	49	80
Alcohol withdrawal state with delirium (F 10.4)	73	96	74	72	**	**
Acute polymorph psychotic disorder without symptoms of schizophrenia (F 23.0)	7	36	5	18		**
Schizoaffective disorder (F 25.2)	29	89	21	36	***	***
Bipolar affective disorder, manic with psychotic symptoms (F 31.2)	16	73	33	41	**	***
Moderate depressive episode (F 32.1)	36	44	41	41
Agoraphobia, with panic disorder (F 40.0)	4	60	3	13	***	***
Social phobia (F 40.1)	56	82	39	56	*	*
Obsessive – compulsive disorder (F 42.1)	7	33	8	13		**
Post – traumatic stress disorder (F 43.1)	82	87	87	87
Schizoid personality disorder (F 60.1)	84	98	85	97
Emotionally unstable personality disorder. Borderline (F 60.3)	47	87	56	62	*	***
Sumscore	5.11 ± 2.0	8.69 ± 2.3	5.05 ± 1.8	6.15 ± 1.9	***	***	**

¹p-value when intervention group is compared with control group at T 2 (chi-square test (Pearson) for individual cases, Mann -Whitney Test when comparing sumscores)
² p-value when test results at T 1 are compared with T 2 in the intervention group (chi-square test (Pearson) for individual cases, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test when comparing sumscores)
³ p-value when test results at T 1 are compared with T 2 in the control group (chi-square test (Pearson) for individual cases, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test when comparing sum scores)
*P < .05, **P < .01 ***P < .001.

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