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      ¿Sería útil la depuración de los trastornos mentales comunes en pacientes hiperfrecuentadores de servicios de salud en cuidado primario? Translated title: Would the Screening of Common Mental Disorders in Primary-Care Health Services Hyper-Frequent Patients Be Useful?

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          La hiperfrecuentación de servicios de salud constituye un problema para los pacientes, la familia y las instituciones. Este trabajo busca determinar la frecuencia y las características de los trastornos mentales comunes en pacientes hiperfrecuentadores de servicios que acudieron con síntomas y signos imprecisos a una institución prestadora de servicios de cuidado primario en la ciudad de Cali (Colombia) en 2007. Método: Estudio descriptivo transversal. Mediante una encuesta telefónica, que incluyó varios módulos del instrumento PRIME MD, se detectaron los trastornos mentales más frecuentes en pacientes hiperfrecuentadores. Resultado: Los hiperfrecuentadores de servicios son, en general, mujeres laboralmente activas, con edad promedio de 38,7 años. Acuden fundamentalmente por cefalea, pero tienen una alta prevalencia de trastornos mentales comunes (somatización, depresión y ansiedad), que no son fácilmente diagnosticados por los médicos en cuidado primario. Los valores monetarios de las actividades adicionales en salud que generan estos pacientes se atribuyen fundamentalmente a las consultas médicas y a los procedimientos que se les realizan. Conclusión: Considerar a los hiperfrecuentadores de servicios de salud como un grupo de riesgo para trastornos mentales comunes plantea su tamización como una estrategia eficiente para evitar el abuso de servicios y mejorar la satisfacción con la atención recibida.

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          Hyper-frequentation in health services is a problem for patients, their families and the institutions. This study is aimed at deter-mining the frequency and characteristics of common mental disorders in hyper-frequent patients showing vague symptoms and signs at a primary healthcare service during the year 2007 in the city of Cali (Colombia). Methodology: Cross sectional. The most frequent mental disorders in hyper-frequent patients were detected through a telephone interview which included several modules of the PRIME MD instrument. Results: In general, healthcare service hyper-frequenters are working women, 38,7-year old in average. Basically, the consultation is due to cephalalgia but they also exhibit a high prevalence of common mental disorders (somatization, depression and anxiety) not easily diagnosed by physicians in primary care. Expenses for additional health activities generated by these patients are attributed basically to medical consultation and required procedures. Conclusion: Considering hyper-frequenters in health care services as a risk group in terms of common mental disorders involves screening as an efficient strategy to prevent abuse in service use and to improve satisfaction with the attention received.

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          Depression and frequent attendance in elderly primary care patients.

          The aim of this study is to investigate the association between depression and frequent attendance in elderly primary care patients. Moreover, we compare the prevalence and clinical characteristics of frequent attenders (FAs) in the elderly and the nonelderly patients. This nationwide, cross-sectional, two-phase epidemiological study involved 191 primary care physicians (PCPs) and 1896 patients aged 14 and over. We consider FAs those subjects attending PCP practice more than once a month in the last 6 months. Screening for psychiatric disorders was conducted by using the General Health Questionnaire-12. Subsequently, probable cases were assessed by the PCPs with the WHO ICD-10 Checklist for Depression. Prevalence value of frequent attendance was 22.4% in the elderly. Depression was associated with frequent attendance in the elderly even after controlling for physical illness and unexplained somatic complaints. The risk for being an FA was more than twofold in the elderly than in the nonelderly (cOR=2.58; 95% confidence interval, 1.97-3.37). Considering subjects without medical illness, depression increased the risk of being an FA fivefold among the elderly and threefold among the nonelderly. Frequent attendance in primary care is associated with depressive disorder in the elderly. Depression seems to play a more important role in determining frequent attendance in the elderly patients in respect to the nonelderly.
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            Influence of watchful waiting on satisfaction and anxiety among patients seeking care for unexplained complaints.

            We undertook a study to determine whether test-ordering strategy and other consultation-related factors influence satisfaction with and anxiety after a consultation among patients seeking care for unexplained complaints. A cluster-randomized clinical trial was conducted in family medicine practices in the Netherlands. Participants were 498 patients with unexplained complaints seen by 63 primary care physicians. Physicians either immediately ordered a blood test for patients or followed a 4-week watchful waiting approach. Physicians and patients completed questionnaires asking about their characteristics, satisfaction with care, and anxiety, and aspects of the consultation. The main outcomes were patient satisfaction and anxiety. Data were analyzed by multilevel logistic regression analysis. Patients were generally satisfied with their consultation and had moderately low anxiety afterward (mean scores on 11-point scales, 7.3 and 3.1, respectively), with no difference between the immediate testing and watchful waiting groups (chi(2) = 2.4 and 0.3, respectively). The factors associated with higher odds of satisfaction were mainly related to physician-patient communication: patients' satisfaction with their physician generally, feeling taken seriously, and knowing the seriousness of complaints afterward; physicians' discussing testing and not considering complaints bearable; and older physician age. The same was true for factors associated with higher odds of anxiety: patients expecting testing or referral, patients not knowing the seriousness of their complaints afterward, and physicians not seeing a cause for alarm. Test-ordering strategy does not influence patients' satisfaction with and anxiety after a consultation. Instead, specific aspects of physician-patient communication are important. Apparently, primary care physicians underestimate how much they can contribute to the well-being of their patients by discussing their worries.
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                Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría
                rev.colomb.psiquiatr.
                Asociacion Colombiana de Psiquiatria. (Bogotá )
                0034-7450
                October 2012
                : 41
                : 4
                : 853-866
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Profesor Universidades ICESI Colombia
                [2 ] Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Colombia
                [3 ] Instituto Albert Ellis de Colombia Colombia
                [4 ] Universidad del Valle Colombia
                [5 ] Comfandi Salud IPS Colombia
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                S0034-74502012000400010
                10.1016/S0034-7450(14)60051-2
                4e10272b-85b2-4dd8-bfe6-2c3f2dc6d514

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Health services misuse,primary health,depression,anxiety,somatoform disorders,Mal uso de servicios de salud,atención primaria de salud,depresión,ansiedad,trastornos somatoformes,tamizaje

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