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Communication in general practice: recognition and treatment of mental illness.
Patient Education and Counseling 1998 Februrary
From previous studies there is a lot of evidence that in primary care settings, many patients tend to express their mental problems in terms of physical symptoms. Therefore, the general practitioner (GP) needs to recognize mental problems at an early stage. Early recognition allows for adequate treatment that might speed up recovery. The present article reports on a study exploring the GP's ability to recognize mental illness, the communication style that is supposed to support this ability, the subsequent treatment of mental problems, and the patient's recovery. Two databases were used. First, an observation study, involving 351 videotaped consultations held by 15 GPs, yielded information on communication style and recognition abilities. Patients in this study were selected randomly. The second database obtained treatment data and measures of patient recovery from a 1-year follow-up study dealing with the treatment and course of mental illness. Patients in this study were selected because their GPs considered their problems "mainly psychosocial by nature". Half of them were categorized within psychological and social diagnostic categories of the International Classification for Primary Care (ICPC), the other half were categorized within physical disease categories, with an assessment by the GP that the complaints were mainly psychosocial. Results showed no significant relationships between the recognition of mental illness and nine communication features supposed to induce these abilities. There was a tendency however, for a positive association between recommended communicative behaviour of the GP and his or her tendency to give frequently psychosocial evaluations of the patient's complaints. Also, there was a negative tendency between this recommended behaviour and the degree of agreement between the GP's evaluation and the score on a psychiatric screening questionnaire. This agreement is called "accuracy". Frequent psychosocial evaluations were related to exploring behaviour and mental health referral in case of psychosocial complaints. Further, relationships between the GPs' recognition ability and various measures of patients' recovery did not prove univocal. Both positive, negative and absent relationships were found.
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