Preconsult interactive computer-assisted client assessment survey for common mental disorders in a community health centre: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access disparities for mental health care exist for vulnerable ethnocultural and immigrant groups. Community health centres that serve these groups could be supported further by interactive, computer-based, self-assessments.

Methods

An interactive computer-assisted client assessment survey (iCCAS) tool was developed for preconsult assessment of common mental disorders (using the Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9], Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item [GAD-7] scale, Primary Care Post-traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD-PC] screen and CAGE [concern/cut-down, anger, guilt and eye-opener] questionnaire), with point-of-care reports. The pilot randomized controlled trial recruited adult patients, fluent in English or Spanish, who were seeing a physician or nurse practition

SUBMITTER: Ahmad F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378520 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature