Desirable Objects of Evaluation for Measuring Person-Centered Medicine: Conceptual Considerations Drawing on African Insights

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Published: Feb 12, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v3i3.422
Keywords:
Validity reliability consultation satisfaction health systems story making African-inspired concepts and procedures.

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Werdie van Staden
University of Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

Developing instruments for measuring person-centered medicine (PCM) is faced with the challenge to formulate items or criteria by which the various aspects of person-centeredness may be identified and evaluated. In addition, consideration has to be given to the kinds of objects on which these items and criteria may be applied. This paper compares kinds of objects desirable for applying criteria of person-centeredness, including clinical consultations, health systems and Indaba shared story making. Informed by African insights, it favours the latter by reason of the validity and reliability Indaba shared story making seems to afford for measuring person-centeredness.

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Issue
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2013)
Section
Regular Articles
Author Biography

Werdie van Staden, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Werdie (C.W.) van Staden is Professor of philosophy and psychiatry and head of the Division of Philosophy & Ethics of Mental Health at the University of Pretoria. He has been the first appointee of this kind outside Europe. He directs an MPhil-degree programme and supervises doctoral research in this field. His clinical attachment is as honorary consultant psychiatrist at Weskoppies Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa.            Following his training as physician and specialisation in psychiatry at the University of Pretoria, he continued his clinical training and his study in philosophy in the United Kingdom where the University of Warwick awarded him a doctorate of medicine in philosophy. He is a fellow of the College of Psychiatrists of the South African Colleges of Medicine, and also holds qualifications in music at master’s degree level from the University of London (UK) and the University of South Africa.He published several papers and chapters in medical and philosophy journals and books. His core interests are in respectively values in health, incapacity, the philosophy of Gottlob Frege, and the symptomatology of schizophrenia. He considers his most profound philosophical work, captured in the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology under the title “Linguistic markers of recovery: theoretical underpinnings of first person pronoun usage and semantic positions of patients”.He is the editor of the South African Journal of Psychiatry, serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals, including Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology and is managing editor of Philosophy, Ethics & Humanities in Medicine. He serves on the Steering Committee of the International Network for Philosophy & Psychiatry consisting of more than 40 national associations.He has served on several scientific committees of international and national conferences, and chaired the organising and scientific committees of the 10th International Conference for Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology held in 2007 in South Africa. In 2006, he convened the national Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP). He is the founder and chair of the Philosophy of Psychiatry Special Interest Group of SASOP, and serves on the National Advisory Board of SASOP.He is member of various executive committees of the University of Pretoria including being the Chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee (IRB) of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and several management and policy committees of the School of Medicine. He directs the health ethics training in the School of Medicine; chairs the postgraduate training committee of the department of psychiatry; provides clinical training and supervision in general adult psychiatry for medical students and registrars in psychiatry; leads the clinical and theoretical training programme in psychotherapy for registrars in psychiatry; chairs a major module of 2nd year medical and dental students; and leads an inter-disciplinary clinical team at Weskoppies Hospital.

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