Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Do general practitioners and psychiatrists agree about defining cure from depression? The DEsCRIBE™ survey | Demyttenaere et al. BMC Psychiatry 2011 11 169 http 1471-244X 11 169 BMC Psychiatry RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Do general practitioners and psychiatrists agree about defining cure from depression The describe survey Koen Demyttenaere1 Marc Ansseau2 Eric Constant3 Adelin Albert4 Geert Van Gassen5 and Kees van Heeringen6 Abstract Background This study aimed to document the outcome dimensions that physicians see as important in defining cure from depression. The study also aimed to analyse physicians attitudes about depression and to find out whether they affect their prescribing practices and or the outcome dimensions that they view as important in defining cure. Methods A 51-item questionnaire based on six validated scales was used to rate the importance of several depression outcome dimensions. Physicians attitudes about depression were also assessed using the Depression Attitude Scale. Overall 369 Belgian physicians 264 general practitioners GPs 105 psychiatrists participated in the describe survey. Results GPs and psychiatrists strongly agreed that functioning and depressive symptomatology were most important in defining cure anxious and somatic symptomatology was least important. GPs and psychiatrists differed in their attitudes about depression p . Logistic regression revealed that the attitudes of GPs - but not psychiatrists - were significantly associated with their rates of antidepressant prescription p and that certain attitudes predicted which outcome dimensions were seen as important in defining cure. Conclusions Belgian GPs and psychiatrists strongly agreed on which criteria were important in defining cure from depression but differed in their attitudes about depression. The outcome dimensions that were considered important in defining cure were influenced by physicians attitudes - this was more pronounced in GPs than in psychiatrists. Background In 2006 the US National Institute of Mental Health published an article .
