Primary care professionals’ perceptions of depression in older people: a qualitative study
✍ Scribed by Joanna Murray; Sube Banerjee; Richard Byng; Andre Tylee; Dinesh Bhugra; Alastair Macdonald
- Book ID
- 113906806
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
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This study assessed the feasibility and efficacy of an intervention focusing on primary care professionals' attitudes to, problem-solving in and practice relating to depression in old age before and after a nurse-implemented educational intervention. One hundred and twenty-one practices were approac
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