Coping with outpatients who cannot cope : management of persistent complainers in an African country
| Autor: | Fikre Workneh, R Giel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Coping (psychology) Outpatient Clinics Hospital business.industry Mood Disorders media_common.quotation_subject Emotional disorder Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Developing country General Medicine Infectious Diseases medicine Humans Parasitology Ethiopia Psychiatry business Sophistication Competence (human resources) Health worker Developing Countries media_common Medical attention |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 74(4), 475-478. Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 0035-9203 |
| Popis: | Some 15 to 20% of patients visiting general outpatient services in developing countries suffer from some emotional disorder although they present mainly with somatic complaints. Their contact with the services is generally a frustrating experience for themselves and for the health worker, resulting in undue medical attention to their problem. A series of five consecutive steps, of increasing psychiatric sophistication, to assist in the management of these cases is described, permitting the health worker to stop at a level not exceeding his competence. |
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