General practitioners' perspectives on barriers to depression care: development and validation of a questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

General practitioners (GPs) regularly feel challenged by the care of depressed patients and may encounter several barriers in providing best management. GPs' perspectives on barriers to depression care are a subject of growing interest but there is a lack of validated assessment tools. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing barriers to depression care (BDC-Q) encountered by GPs in France and the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Methods

The BDC-Q was constructed in five steps: Item development, content validation, pretesting, testing phase and test-retest reliability. The questionnaire items were generated through a literature search. An expert panel of GPs (n = 16) and psychiatrists (n = 3) validated the content and 20 GPs

SUBMITTER: Senchyna A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7395981 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature