TY - JOUR
KW - Anxiety Disorders/ethnology
KW - Arabs/ethnology/statistics & numerical data
KW - Cost of Illness
KW - Cultural Characteristics
KW - Depressive Disorder/ethnology
KW - Diagnostic Errors
KW - Education, Medical, Continuing/organization & administration
KW - Health Services Needs and Demand
KW - Humans
KW - Inservice Training/organization & administration
KW - Mass Screening/organization & administration
KW - Mental Disorders/diagnosis/ethnology/therapy
KW - Morbidity
KW - Physicians, Family/education/organization & administration
KW - Predictive Value of Tests
KW - Prevalence
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Psychiatry/organization & administration
KW - Quality of Health Care
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Somatoform Disorders/ethnology
KW - United Arab Emirates/epidemiology
AU - O. E. El-Rufaie
A1 - 
AB - There is substantive evidence of significant psychiatric morbidity among primary care patients, mainly in the form of anxiety and depressive disorders. A careful critical approach is essential for ensuring the cultural relevance, validity and reliability of the psychiatric screening instruments used to identify such morbidity. Most psychiatric morbidity among primary care patients passes undetected by the primary care practitioners. This will inevitably lead to unnecessary investigation and medication and the continuation of suffering for patients. Comorbidity and physical presentation in most instances contribute significantly to failure to detect psychiatric disorders. To deal with this problem of hidden psychiatric morbidity, carefully designed educational and training programmes need to be tailored to address the particular weaknesses and needs of primary care doctors.
BT - Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit
C5 - Education & Workforce; Medically Unexplained Symptoms
CP - 3
CY - Egypt
IS - 3
JF - Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit
N2 - There is substantive evidence of significant psychiatric morbidity among primary care patients, mainly in the form of anxiety and depressive disorders. A careful critical approach is essential for ensuring the cultural relevance, validity and reliability of the psychiatric screening instruments used to identify such morbidity. Most psychiatric morbidity among primary care patients passes undetected by the primary care practitioners. This will inevitably lead to unnecessary investigation and medication and the continuation of suffering for patients. Comorbidity and physical presentation in most instances contribute significantly to failure to detect psychiatric disorders. To deal with this problem of hidden psychiatric morbidity, carefully designed educational and training programmes need to be tailored to address the particular weaknesses and needs of primary care doctors.
PP - Egypt
PY - 2005
SN - 1020-3397; 1020-3397
SP - 449
EP - 458
EP - 
T1 - Primary care psychiatry: Pertinent Arabian perspectives
T2 - Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit
TI - Primary care psychiatry: Pertinent Arabian perspectives
U1 - Education & Workforce; Medically Unexplained Symptoms
U2 - 16602466
VL - 11
VO - 1020-3397; 1020-3397
Y1 - 2005
ER -