Can General Practitioners manage mental disorders in primary care? A partially randomised, pragmatic, cluster trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For a decade, experts have suggested integrating mental health care into primary care to help bridge mental health Treatment Gap. General Practitioners (GPs) are the first port-of-call for many patients with mental ill-health. In Indonesia, the WHO mhGAP is being systematically introduced to its network of 10,000 primary care clinics as an add-on mental health training for pairs of GPs and Nurses, since the end of 2015. In one of 34 provinces, there exists an integrated care model: the co-location of clinical psychologists in primary care clinics. This trial evaluates patient outcomes among those provided mental health care by GPs with those treated by clinical psychologists in primary care.

Methods

In this partially-randomised, pragmatic, two-arm cluster non-infe

SUBMITTER: Anjara SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6837310 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature