Evaluating Puerto Rican Clinical Psychologists' Interest to Obtain Prescription Privileges
Keywords:
Prescription privileges, Psychopharmacology, Psychotropic medicationsAbstract
Would Puerto Rican clinical psychologists be interested to obtain prescription privileges? One hundred clinical psychologists completed an exploratory survey. An instrument was created to evaluate prescriptive privileges (Alpha Cronbach .98). Four qualitative questions were answered indicating that 60% of psychologists would qualify for a postdoctoral degree to prescribe psychotropic, 62% consider appropriate to request authorization to prescribe, 35% totally agree and 19% totally disagree that psychologists must obtain a license to prescribe medications. Overall, Puerto Rican clinical psychologists expressed positive opinions regarding having authorization to prescribe psychotropics or to have psychologists with license to prescribe.
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