[Caring relatives in General practice-General practitioners' perspectives and solution approaches].

ABSTRACT:

Background

General practitioners are usually responsible for the early detection of burden due to informal care and the coordination of adequate measures. Their individual perspectives and approaches for identifying and supporting caregiving relatives have hardly been examined yet.

Objective

The study therefore examined subjective perspectives of general practitioners regarding the identification and care of family caregivers in general practitioners' practices. The results will help to evaluate the needs for improvement and conditions for implementation of an instrument to identify informal carers.

Material and methods

To answer the question, we conducted 12 guideline-based expert interviews with general practitioners from Saxony-Anhalt. To evaluate the interviews, w

SUBMITTER: Marx Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9877090 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature