Frontiers Friday #36. Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT; Part IV)
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
Frontiers Friday #36. Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT; Part IV)
In case you missed it, here are the previous newsletters that are filled with resources about FIT.
Onward to our final Part IV on resources about feedback-informed treatment. (See especially a hot-off-the-press reach on cost effectiveness of FIT used in the UK.)
From My Desk: To Get Useful Feedback, Seek Contrast
This has been one tip that continues to pay dividends, so long as I keep the graphs visible to both my client and I.
From the Same Desk: Value What We Measure Or Measure What We Value
It's much easier to simply compile with what we are asked to measured, then it is to think clearly about measuring what is of value.
Research: Cost Effectiveness of Feedback Informed Treatment
This is hot-off-the-press. A new study from the UK by Jamie Deligadillo and colleagues was just released about the economic evaluation of using a system like FIT to guide treatment.
Key grafs:
- Compared to usual care, FIT was associated with an increased probability of reliable symptomatic improvement by 8.09 percentage points (95% CI: 4.16% to 12.03%) which was statistically significant (as measured by patient-reported depression [PHQ-9] and anxiety [GAD-7] measures)
- The incremental cost of FIT was £15.17 (95% CI: -£6.95 to £37.29) per patient and was not statistically significant.
Research: Beyond Measures and Monitoring (Miller, Hubble Chow & Seidel, 2015)
Here's one article from our team that might be useful to you as we explored the potentials of integrating FIT into practice.
(This is available via ResearchGate)
Words Worth Contemplating:
“People are united by questions. It is the answers that divide them.”
~ Elie Wisel
REFLECTION:
An overemphasis on performance can impede learning (listen to this podcast episode)
Does the use of measure help you to perform or to learn?
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