Psychosocial characteristics and affective symptomatology associated with patient self-initiated consultations in Spanish general practice.

Health & Social Care in the Community
Montserrat Gomà-I-FreixanetMariona Portell

Abstract

We aimed to determine the sociodemographic and psychosocial profile, and the associated subclinical affective symptomatology of users above the 95th percentile in the distribution of patient self-initiated, face-to-face consultations. Additionally, we sought to determine the contribution of subclinical symptomatology in differentiating between the groups above or below this cut-off point. A total of 16,803 users who self-initiated at least one face-to-face consultation with a GP at any of 13 PHC practices over 1 year, were eligible. After discarding those fulfilling exclusion criteria, 129 cases and 109 controls, matched by gender and age, answered the Family APGAR, the Duke-UNC and the Goldberg Anxiety-Depression scale. Both groups did not differ significantly on any of the sociodemographic and psychosocial variables recorded showing a similar percentage distribution. However, users with high self-initiated consultation rates obtained lower scores on the affective social support subscale from the Duke-UNC. Regarding Goldberg scale, the two groups differed significantly on the likelihood of displaying depression and/or anxiety symptoms. Users with a high probability of suffering from depression and/or anxiety were more prevalen...Continue Reading

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