Clinicians’ perceptions and practices of diagnostic assessment in psychiatric services

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 Kruskal-Wallis Tests and Pairwise Comparisons of Differences Between Professions of the Extended Assessment

	Kruskal-Wallis test			Physicians-psychologists		Physicians-nurses		Psychologists-nurses
	H	df	p	p	r	p	r	p	r
Assessment fulfills its purpose	1.25	2	0.534
Number of assessments involved in	8.41	2	0.015	0.357	0.15	0.019	0.33	0.164	0.25
Number of assessments conducted on their own	17.17	2	< 0.001	< 0.001	-0.37	1.00	0.04	0.060	0.31
I am competent in conducting assessment	7.86	2	0.020	0.016	-0.27	1.00	-0.05	0.919	0.13
I need education in assessment	1.83	2	0.400
I can determine which diagnosis should be the target of treatment^a	1.94	2	0.380
Importance of consulting other clinicians’ assessments	0.37	2	0.832

^a“If I have conducted the assessment on my own or substantial parts of it together with others”.

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