Does the attention General Practitioners pay to their patients' mental health problems add to their workload? A cross sectional national survey

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zantinge, Else M ^a   Verhaak, Peter F M ^a   De Bakker, Dinny H ^a   Van Der Meer, Klaas ^b   Bensing, Jozien M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; WORKLOAD; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME; TIME MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; TIME FACTORS; TIME MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33845507833     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-71     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. Scott A, Wordsworth S: The effects of shifts in the balance of care on general practice workload. Fam Pract 1999, 16(1):12-17.
2. Visscher A, Laurant M, Schattenberg G, Grol R: De rol van de huisarts inzake geestelijke gezondheidszorg (GP's role in mental health care) Nijmegen, Centre for quality of care research, University Medical Centre St Radboud; 2002.
3. Morrison I, Smith R: Hamster health care. BMJ 2000, 321(7276):1541-1542.
4. Deveugele M, Derese A, Brink-Muinen A, van den Bensing J, de Maeseneer J: Consultation length in general practice: cross sectional study in six European countries. BMJ 2002, 325(7362):472-473.
5. Zantinge EM, Verhaak PFM, Bensing JM: The workload of General Practitioners: Patients with psychological and somatic problems compared. Fam Pract 2005, 22:293-297.
6. Sturmberg JP: General practice-specific care categories: a method to examine the impact of morbidity on general practice workload. Fam Pract 2002, 19(1):85-92.
7. Zantinge EM, Verhaak PFM, Kerssens JJ, Bensing JM: The workload of General Practitioners: Consultations of patients with psychological or somatic problems compared. Br J Gen Pract 2005, 55:609-614.
8. Bruijnzeels MA, de Hoop T, Swart W, Voorham AJJ: Etnische herkomst van patiënten en de werkbelasting van de huisarts (Ethnic background of patients and the burden of GPs). Huisarts en Wetenschap 1999, 46:254-258.
9. Marinus AMF: Inter-doktervariatie in de huisartspraktijk (Inter-doctor variation in general practice) Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam; 1993.
10. Kaplan MS, Adamek ME, Calderon A: Managing depressed and suicidal geriatric patients: Differences among primary care physicians. Gerontologist 1999, 39:417-425.
11. Ross S, Moffat K, McConnachie A, Gordon J, Wilson P: Sex and attitude: a randomized vignette study of the management of depression by general practitioners. Br J Gen Pract 1999, 49(438):17-21.
12. Howie JG, Hopton JL, Heaney DJ, Porter AM: Attitudes to medical care, the organization of work, and stress among general practitioners. Br J Gen Pract 1992, 42(358):181-185.
13. Groenewegen PP, Hutten JBF, van der Velden K: List size, composition of practice and general practitioners' workload in The Netherlands. Soc Sci Med 1992, 34(3):263-270.
14. Bensing JM, van den Brink-Muinen A, de Bakker DH: Gender differences in practice style: a Dutch study of general practitioners. Med Care 1993, 31(3):219-229.
15. Verhaak PFM, van den Brink-Muinen A, Bensing JM, Gask L: Demand and supply for psychological help in general practice in different European countries: access to primary mental health care in six European countries. Eur J Pub Health 2004, 14(2):134-140.
16. Groenewegen PP, Hutten JBF: The influence of supply-related characteristics on general practitioners' workload. Soc Sci Med 1995, 40(3):349-358.
17. van den Berg MJ, Kolthof ED, de Bakker DH, van der Zee J: De werkbelasting van huisartsen (The workload of general practitioners) Utrecht: NIVEL; 2004.
18. Whynes D, Baines D: Predicting activity and workload in general practice from the demographic structure of the practice population. J Health Serv Res Policy 1996, 1:128-134.
19. Westert GP, Schellevis FG, de Bakker DH, Groenewegen PP, Bensing JM, van der Zee J: Monitoring health inequalities through General Practice: the Second Dutch National Survey of General Practice. Eur J Pub Health 2005, 15(1):59-65.
20. Lamberts H, Wood M: International Classification of Primary Care Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1987.
21. McCranie E, Hornsby J, Calvert J: Practice and career satisfaction among residency trained family physicians; a national survey. J Fam Pract 1982, 14(6):1107-1114.
22. Schaufeli W, van Dierendonck D: UBOS (Utrechtse Burnout Schaal) [Utrecht Burnout Scale] Handleiding. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger; 2000.
23. Maslach C, Jackson S, Leiter M: Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual. Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologists Press; 1996.
24. Grol R: Preventie van somatische fixatie en de attitude van de huisarts (Prevention of somatic fixation and the attitude of the general practitioner) Nijmegen, Nijmeegs Universitair Huisartsen Instituut; 1983.
25. Boerma WGW, Verhaak PFM: The general practitioner as the first contacted health professional by patients with psychosocial problems: a European study. Psycholog Med 1999, 29(3):689-696.
26. Howie J: Comment: do minutes count for quality in the general practice consultation? J Health Serv Res Policy 1998, 3(4):213-214.
27. Bushnell J, The MaGPIe Research Group: Frequency of consultations and general practitioner recognition of psychological symptoms. Br J Gen Pract 2004, 54:838-842.
28. Armstrong D, Earnshaw G: What constructs do GPs use when diagnosing psychological problems? Br J Gen Pract 2004, 54:580-583.
29. Verhaak PFM: Mental disorder in the community and in general practice: doctors' views and patients' demands Avebury: Aldershot; 1995.
30. Roter DL, Hall JA, Kern DE, Randol Barker L, Cole KA, Roca RP: Improving Physicians' Interviewing Skills and Reducing Patients' Emotional Distress. A randomized Clinical Trial. Arch Intern Med 1995, 155:1877-84.