Psykisk ohälsa stort problem hos primärvårdens patienter. Enkät besvarad av över 2 000 patienter
Sammanfattning
A survey comprising more than 2000 patients visiting primary care units during a 2-week period in November 2008 was carried out in the county of Västernorrland, Sweden. The results show that approximately 18.5 % of the patients came on account of psychological ill health, either as sole reason (1.5%) or in combination with other cause(s). Roughly 14.7 % (309) of these scored higher or equivalent to clinically meaningful cut off scores on scales measuring anxiety, depression and exhaustion (burnout). An additional 322 of the remaining sample (27 % of the females and 16 % of the males) had high scores on scales measuring psychological ill health.