General practitioners’ views towards management of common mental health disorders: Τhe critical role of continuing medical education

Table 1 Self-reported Continuing Medical Education (CME) of GPs on mental disorders

	N = 353	At least twice per year	Once per year	Every two years	Every three years	Less than once in three years	Never	No response
Q₁	%	8.8	27.2	16.7	10.2	31.2	5.7	0.3
Q₂	%	5.9	19.5	12.7	12.7	34.3	14.7	0.0
		Once a week	Once a month	2–3 times per year	Once per year	Rarely	Never	No response
Q₃	%	11.3	25.5	38.2	8.2	15.0	1.7	0.0
Q₄	%	13.6	33.7	31.4	11.3	7.9	1.4	0.6

Q₁: I participate in psychiatric seminars/conferences for my continuous education on mental disorders
Q₂: I participate in clinical training psychiatric courses so as to practice my skills on mental disorders' management
Q₃: I study scientific articles, contemporary research, and psychiatric textbooks to keep pace with most common mental disorders I may need to manage
Q₄: I get informed on the treatment of most common mental disorders as far as therapeutic effects, pharmacokinetics and drugs' side effects are concerned

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