Primary care clinicians' recognition and management of depression: a model of depression care in real-world primary care practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is prevalent in primary care (PC) practices and poses a considerable public health burden in the United States. Despite nearly four decades of efforts to improve depression care quality in PC practices, a gap remains between desired treatment outcomes and the reality of how depression care is delivered.

Objective

This article presents a real-world PC practice model of depression care, elucidating the processes and their influencing conditions.

Design

Grounded theory methodology was used for the data collection and analysis to develop a depression care model. Data were collected from 70 individual interviews (60 to 70 min each), three focus group interviews (n = 24, 2 h each), two surveys per clinician, and investigators' field notes on practice e

SUBMITTER: Baik SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3797334 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature