Detection of somatization and depression in primary care in Saudi Arabia
โ Scribed by Susan M. Becker
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-9285
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Out of 208 primary health care centres (PHCCs) in the Asir region, southwestern Saudi Arabia, a stratiยฎed random sample of 23 PHCCs was randomly chosen. Data regarding all the medical consultations (66,438) provided by all PHCCs physicians (49) and their prescriptions were collected to study prescri
Two self-rated questionnaires, SELFCARE (D) and Hospital Anxiety Depression (HAD) Scale, were compared in relation to their ecacy in detecting depression in 72 elderly patients attending general practitioners at a health centre in Liverpool, England. The sensitivity, speciยฎcity and overall misclassi