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BACKGROUND:The study is based on the hypothesis that in any catchment area there are patients with chronic mental illness who are unknown to a comprehensive psychiatric/psychosocial care system. METHOD:A standardized questionnaire was sent to all general practitioners in a circumscribed catchment area in southwestern Germany in an attempt to identify such a group, to ascertain what the practitioners considered to be the needs of these patients, and to find out why the patients were not receiving specialized psychiatric care. RESULTS:Of 97 general practitioners contacted, 62 returned the questionnaire. Within a study period of 3 months, 89 patients were identified as having a significant psychiatric disorder, of whom 53% were older than 60 years and 15% were schizophrenic. General practitioners most frequently said that provision of specialized psychiatric care was the most pressing need of these patients, followed by a need for psychosocial services. They also said that the major reason patients did not participate in the mental health system was patient refusal of such services. CONCLUSIONS:Having identified the existence of a group of chronic psychiatric patients who are not receiving specialized psychiatric care, further in-depth field studies to pursue some of the issues raised in this pilot study will be necessary to determine whether further efforts to reach psychiatric patients without defined psychiatric care would be worthwhile. These issues include estimates of the prevalence of such patients in a defined population, patients' more specific reasons for refusal of psychiatric care, and the quality of psychiatric care they receive from general practitioners in comparison with patients who receive more conventional psychiatric care.
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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemioljournal_title
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiologyauthors
Längle G,Welte W,Rösger U,Günthner A,U'Ren Rdoi
10.1007/s001270050264subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-10-01 00:00:00pages
457-62issue
10eissn
0933-7954issn
1433-9285journal_volume
35pub_type
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