Training general practitioners in the treatment of functional somatic symptoms: Effects on patient health in a cluster-randomised controlled trial (the Functional Illness in Primary Care Study)

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 227-237

  Toft, Tomas ^a   Rosendal, Marianne ^b   Ørnbøl, Eva ^a   Olesen, Frede ^b   Frostholm, Lisbeth ^a   Fink, Per ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disability evaluation; Family practice; Medically unexplained symptoms; Mental disorders; Primary health care; Questionnaires; Randomised controlled trials; Somatoform disorders; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHEDULES OF CLINICAL ASSESSMENT IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY; SHORT FORM 36; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TRAINING; WHITELEY 7; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 77951232882     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313691     Document Type: Article

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