Pilar Lusilla-Palacios (Spain)
Vall d'Hebron University Hospital-VHIR Autonomous University of Barcelona
Department of Psychiatry
She is specialist on Psychiatry and works currently as Associate Clinical Professor at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) and since 2009 is a statutory member of the Psychiatry Department at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (VHUH). She is currently senior consultant of psychiatry to the Traumatology área and the Rehabilitation Department in HUVH. She worked as head of the in-patient Unit of the “Integral Care Program for Sick Physicians -which is a special program for physicians with mental and/or addictive disorders, managed by Galatea Foundation. She joined the Liaison Psychiatry team of HUVH. Dr Lusilla has also an extensive experience in clinical research focused on wellbeing of health professionals with epidemiologic, clinical studies, burnout prevention and implementation of Guidelines for the management of impaired physicians. She is also member of the board of Motivational Interviewing International Networking of Trainers and she has co- founded GETEM (Grupo Español de Trabajo en Entrevista Motivacional, www.getem). Additionally, she has a large teaching experience in motivational interviewing, holding more than ten consecutive years experience providing training for health professionals working in different settings.

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Webinar - EPA Course 07: Brief Motivational Interventions in the Emergency Room: How to Engage Quickly Patients with Addictive Disorders

Session Type
EPA Course
Date
Sat, 04.06.2022
Session Time
16:00 - 18:00
Room
Hall D
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Session Description
Organised by the EPA Section on Addictive Behaviours. Motivational interviewing is defined as a patient-centered and collaborative approach that guides people to initiate and maintain a strategy of behaviour change through the resolution of their ambivalence. This approach has become in the last decades the golden standard to manage addictions as opposed to classic confrontational models. Different meta-analysis, have demonstrated its moderate but robust effect in improving both adherence to treatment and addictive behaviours. Brief interventions have proven its efficacy in primary health settings, to help patients reduce their drug use, specially concerning alcohol and tobacco. Motivational adaptations of those brief counselling interventions have been developed and tested in recent years. In this course, attendees will receive training on how to use brief motivational interventions (BMI) with patients suffering addictive disorders in the Emergency Room. The course will address the following topics: • How to identify which clinical situations are, and are not, suitable for a brief intervention • Key elements of a successful brief motivational intervention • Barriers (and how to overcome them) to deliver BMI in the Emergency Room • Elements that influence adherence to treatment and successful referral • Review of the existing scientific evidence
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Brief Motivational Interventions in the Emergency Room: How to Engage Quickly Patients with Addictive Disorders

Session Name
0360 - Webinar - EPA Course 07: Brief Motivational Interventions in the Emergency Room: How to Engage Quickly Patients with Addictive Disorders (ID 110)
Session Type
EPA Course
Date
Sat, 04.06.2022
Session Time
16:00 - 18:00
Room
Hall D
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Fully Live, Ticketed
Presenter
Lecture Time
16:00 - 18:00

Mental Health Sequelae in Health Professionals in Spain during the COVID Pandemic.

Session Name
0210 - On Demand - Symposium 18: Mental Health and Substance Use Problems in Medical Doctors (in times of COVID-19) (ID 104)
Session Type
Clinical/Therapeutic
Date
Sat, 04.06.2022
Session Time
11:00 - 12:30
Room
On Demand 2
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On Demand, Section
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Lecture Time
11:40 - 12:00

Abstract

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The COVID-19 pandemic has raised several concerns regarding its mental health effect on patients and professionals. In the beginning, the absence of knowledge about the disease transmission or effective therapies, the quick spread among the population collapsing hospitals in combination with the lack of protection measures put healthcare professionals working in the frontline in a high stressful situation.

The professionals had to face several unprecedented challenges: improvised hospitals, living in hotels to avoid infecting the family, deciding, as in wartime, which patients could be intubated and which could not, doubling shifts, and above all, the uncertainty about the disease, the high severity and the contagiousness that isolated the patients from their family, leaving the health professional with the responsibility of being a caregiver in the broad sense of the word.

With this picture several studies have reported a high prevalence of mental disorders. A survey of 9138 Spanish professionals conducted during the first wave of the pandemic showed that 45.7% had a mental disorder (depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder and SUD), 14.5% had any disabling current mental disorder and 8.4% had suicidal thoughts.

In Spain, managed by the Galatea Foundation, there is a special programme of confidential care for doctors with a mental illness or addiction. During the pandemic, a 30% increase of requests for help were registered, 70% of which came from primary health care professionals.

The presentation provides also qualitative data with testimonies of professionals and anti-stress protection measures implemented by some health institutions.

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