TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Counseling/methods
KW - Female
KW - Focus Groups
KW - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Patient Education as Topic/methods
KW - Physician-Patient Relations
KW - Primary Health Care/methods
KW - Social Support
KW - Somatoform Disorders/therapy
KW - Sweden
AU - T. Woivalin
AU - G. Krantz
AU - T. Mantyranta
AU - K. C. Ringsberg
A1 - 
AB - BACKGROUND: Patients presenting with multiple symptoms represent a substantial part of a GP's total work load. At the same time, these patients account for the majority of the people on long-term sick-leave in Sweden today. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore GPs' perceptions and ways of managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). METHODS: Five focus group discussions were conducted with a total of 27 GPs. In the collection and analysis of data, a phenomenographic approach was used. RESULTS: The GPs described how they used four different approaches to manage patients with MUS: a biomedical, a psychological, an educational and a psychosocial approach. Different approaches were used, depending on the patient and the situation, and the GPs even switched approach when working with the same patient. CONCLUSIONS: In their work with patients with MUS, GPs need support and further training to improve the way the biomedical frame of reference is integrated with the humanistic perspective.
BT - Family practice
C5 - Medically Unexplained Symptoms
CP - 2
CY - England
IS - 2
JF - Family practice
N2 - BACKGROUND: Patients presenting with multiple symptoms represent a substantial part of a GP's total work load. At the same time, these patients account for the majority of the people on long-term sick-leave in Sweden today. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore GPs' perceptions and ways of managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). METHODS: Five focus group discussions were conducted with a total of 27 GPs. In the collection and analysis of data, a phenomenographic approach was used. RESULTS: The GPs described how they used four different approaches to manage patients with MUS: a biomedical, a psychological, an educational and a psychosocial approach. Different approaches were used, depending on the patient and the situation, and the GPs even switched approach when working with the same patient. CONCLUSIONS: In their work with patients with MUS, GPs need support and further training to improve the way the biomedical frame of reference is integrated with the humanistic perspective.
PP - England
PY - 2004
SN - 0263-2136; 0263-2136
SP - 199
EP - 203
EP - 
T1 - Medically unexplained symptoms: perceptions of physicians in primary health care
T2 - Family practice
TI - Medically unexplained symptoms: perceptions of physicians in primary health care
U1 - Medically Unexplained Symptoms
U2 - 15020392
VL - 21
VO - 0263-2136; 0263-2136
Y1 - 2004
ER -