Var femte som besökte vårdcentral fick hjälp mot psykisk ohälsa. Men bara 7 procent fick psykiatrisk diagnos, visar databasstudie i Stockholm
Engelsk titel: One in five who visited a health center received help for mental illness. But only 7 percent were given a psychiatric diagnosis, as shown in a database study in Stockholm
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Författare:
Åsbring, Nina
;
Dal, Henrik
;
Ohrling, Mikael
;
Dalman, Christina
Email: nina.asbring@sll.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 16
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 14117452
Sammanfattning
Approximately 25-30% of those seeking care from a family physician have, in different studies, been estimated to have mental problems. However, a smaller portion of the
patients receive a psychiatric diagnosis. The present study is based on data from 2011 which originates from the VAL databases, Stockholm County Council’s databases for the
monitoring and analysis of health care. The results show that, on average, 7% of those who visited a family physician in 2011 received a psychiatric diagnosis, but as many as
20% of the patients received some form of help for mental problems. To a large degree this help consisted of prescribing psychotropic drugs. A small proportion received
psychosocial interventions from psychologists etc. Thus, psychiatric diagnoses from a family physician do not seem to be a reliable measure of how many patients are in
practice identified as suffering from mental ill-health.