WHO ICD-11 Study on Diagnostic Specifiers for Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder: Invitation to participate.

We are pleased to invite you to participate in an Internet-Based Field Study for ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders.  This particular study will focus on Diagnostic Specifiers for Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder.

You are receiving this message because you are registered as a member of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Clinical Practice Network (GCPN), an international community of mental health and primary care professionals committed to furthering research and practice in global mental health.  These studies will allow practicing health professionals to influence the development of the ICD-11 to help make it more clinically useful in global mental health and primary care settings.

We are inviting you to participate in this study in English based on the responses you have provided about the languages you use in your professional life and in which you are proficient.

If you are willing to participate in this study, please follow your individualized survey link below to read the informed consent statement and participate.  Note that this link is unique to you and that it will expire after it is used, so please do not forward it to anyone else.  You have been invited to participate in this study because you represent a part of the global community of mental health practitioners.  Therefore, we ask that you participate in the study even if you do not feel that you have specific expertise in the topic of the study.

We expect that this study will take approximately 20 minutes on average, but please allow up to 40 minutes so you have time to complete the study.  In addition, it is recommended that you do not attempt to participate in this study using a smartphone given the extent of the study material.

For the purposes of these studies, it is important to keep our GCPN member data as up-to-date as possible.  If your contact information, institutional affiliations, or professional duties have changed since you initially registered for the GCPN, please contact me at gcpn@who.int to update your information.

Thank you for your continued contributions to this important endeavor.

Kind regards,

Tahilia

Tahilia Rebello, PhD
Project Coordinator
Global Clinical Practice Network
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
World Health Organization

We hope that you will participate in this study even if you do not feel that you have specific expertise in the topic. Your participation is important because the ICD-11 classification must be useful for both experts and non-experts in any particular area. However, if you would not like to participate in this study, but want to continue to participate in the GCPN and to receive invitations for studies on other topics, please click here.

If you have any questions or comments about the ICD-11 development process, if you have received this message by mistake, or if you want to be removed from the GCPN, please contact me at gcpn@who.int.