Initiation and cessation of mental healthcare after mental health screening in primary care: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health (MH) problems have considerable personal and societal implications. Systematic MH screening may raise general practitioners' (GP) awareness of the current need of treatment in their listed patients. The focus of MH screening has so far been on increasing diagnostic rates and treatment of mental disorders, whereas cessation of MH treatment after normal test results has rarely been studied. This study aims to examine the mental healthcare trajectories after MH screening combined with feedback on both positive and negative screening results to the GP.

Methods

This prospective cohort study is based on data from 11,714 randomly selected individuals aged 30-49 years, who were invited to a preventive health check in Denmark during 2012-2015. A total of 5970

SUBMITTER: Geyti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240182 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature