TY - JOUR
T1 - Recognition and treatment of depression in primary care settings in 6 different countries
T2 - A retrospective file analysis by WHO
AU - Munitz, Hanan
AU - Valevski, Avi
AU - Weizman, Abraham
AU - Prilipko, Leonid
AU - Baudis, Pavel
AU - Skoda, Citrad
AU - Boussaid, Farid
AU - Moussaoui, Driss
AU - Belyanchikova, Maria A.
AU - Bobrov, Alexei E.
AU - Tsirkin, Sergei
AU - Yifang, Gan
AU - Channabasavanna, S. M.
PY - 2000/4
Y1 - 2000/4
N2 - The rates of depression in patients with and without sufficient number of symptoms to diagnose depression were assessed in a multicultural study of primary health care records. The files of 1199 patients in 6 countries were examined in order to obtain information gathered in the prior three months to the file inspection. A category of 'diagnosable depression' was assigned when the sufficient number of symptoms according to ICD-10 criteria to diagnose depression were found in the file but the diagnosis of depression was not made. The low recognition rate by the primary care physicians replicated in this study appears to be a result of the lack of conceptualisation of depression by the physician and is not due to different clinical presentation. The diagnosable depression groups used health are resources to a higher degree when compared to the groups with no evidence for depression.
AB - The rates of depression in patients with and without sufficient number of symptoms to diagnose depression were assessed in a multicultural study of primary health care records. The files of 1199 patients in 6 countries were examined in order to obtain information gathered in the prior three months to the file inspection. A category of 'diagnosable depression' was assigned when the sufficient number of symptoms according to ICD-10 criteria to diagnose depression were found in the file but the diagnosis of depression was not made. The low recognition rate by the primary care physicians replicated in this study appears to be a result of the lack of conceptualisation of depression by the physician and is not due to different clinical presentation. The diagnosable depression groups used health are resources to a higher degree when compared to the groups with no evidence for depression.
KW - Depression
KW - Epidemiology of Depression
KW - Treatment of Depression
KW - WHO
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AN - SCOPUS:0033919769
SN - 0213-6163
VL - 14
SP - 85
EP - 93
JO - European Journal of Psychiatry
JF - European Journal of Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -