Use of self-chosen therapies by depressed people in primary care
โ Scribed by Frances Badger; Peter Nolan
- Book ID
- 108846757
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 483 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0962-1067
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Objectives. To examine general practitioners' (GP) awareness of depression in their elderly patients (aged over 65) and to identify characteristics of those patients least likely to be recognized and treated. Design. A cross-sectional study comparing the clinical opinion of the GP with assessment o
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