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| Managing depressed and suicidal geriatric patients: differences among primary care physicians | | Author(s) | Mark S Kaplan, Margaret E Adamek, Alvin Calderon |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 4, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 417-425 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Suicide ; Diagnosis ; Therapeutics ; General practitioners ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although there is a high rate of suicide and depression among older people, they are more likely than younger people to seek mental health care from primary care physicians than from mental health specialists. This study examined differences by specialty of primary care physicians in managing suicidal and depressed geriatric patients. A probability sample of 300 Illinois physicians drawn from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile was surveyed. Significant differences were found between the specialties in estimates of the prevalence of psychiatric disorders; use of assessment procedures, treatment approaches, and referrals; perceptions of obstacles to providing mental health care; and confidence in diagnosing and treating depression and suicidality. The study concluded that meeting the mental health needs of the rapidly growing older population will require a greater emphasis on geriatric mental health and consistency across primary care specialties. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000118228 A |
| Classmark | ENR: EV: LK7: LL: QT6: 7T |
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