Recognition of anxiety disorders in children: a cross-sectional vignette-based survey among general practitioners.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify general practitioners' (GPs) sensitivity to anxiety disorders (ADs) when confronted with the range of symptoms common to children with ADs. Also, to explore GPs' conscious preferences and implicit tendencies for referral of children with ADs to mental healthcare.

Design and setting

In a cross-sectional vignette-based survey, all attendees of a Dutch continuing medical education conference for primary care physicians were presented with subtitled audio fragments of five vignettes that we constructed to mimic symptom presentation of children with ADs in general practice. We asked attendees to select per vignette the most plausible diagnoses and most adequate referral option, and for their general referral preferences when they suspect each of the most com

SUBMITTER: Aydin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200042 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature