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4.38 THE ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS OF PAKISTANI MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ABOUT DEPRESSION: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN LAHORE

Waqas, Ahmed, MBBS ; Haddad, Mark, PhD

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2016-10, Vol.55 (10), p.S175-S175 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Baltimore: Elsevier Inc

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  • Título:
    4.38 THE ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS OF PAKISTANI MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ABOUT DEPRESSION: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN LAHORE
  • Autor: Waqas, Ahmed, MBBS ; Haddad, Mark, PhD
  • Assuntos: Aging ; Antidepressants ; Attitude surveys ; Beliefs ; Biopsychosocial aspects ; Causes ; Child & adolescent psychiatry ; Demography ; Depression ; Depression (Psychology) ; Efficacy ; Medical personnel ; Mental depression ; Mental disorders ; Optimism ; Pediatrics ; Physicians ; Positive thought ; Professional attitudes ; Psychiatrists ; Psychiatry ; Quantitative psychology ; Questionnaires ; Rejection ; Rural communities
  • É parte de: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2016-10, Vol.55 (10), p.S175-S175
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  • Descrição: Objectives: Mental disorders, such as depression, are common and rank as major contributors to the global burden of the disease. Condition recognition and subsequent management of depression are variables and are influenced by the attitudes and beliefs of clinicians and those of patients. Most studies examining health professionals' attitudes have been conducted in Western nations; this study explores beliefs and attitudes about depression among doctors working in Lahore, Pakistan. Methods: A cross-sectional survey conducted in 2015 used a questionnaire concerning demographics, education in psychiatry, beliefs about depression causes, and attitudes about depression using the Revised Depression Attitude Questionnaire (R-DAQ). Results: The doctors (N = 601; 86 percent) were approached and consented to participate; almost all respondents (99 percent) endorsed one of various biopsychosocial causes of depression (38-79 percent for particular causes), and 37 percent (between 13 and 19 percent for particular causes) noted that supernatural forces could be responsible. Supernatural causes were more commonly held by female doctors, those working in rural settings, and those with a high level of education of a psychiatry specialist. Attitudes toward depression were mostly less confident or optimistic and less inclined to a generalist's perspective than those of clinicians in the United Kingdom or European nations, and deterministic perspectives of depression as a natural part of aging or the result of personal failings were particularly common. However, there was substantial confidence in the efficacy of antidepressants and psychological therapy. More confident and therapeutically optimistic views and a more generalist perspective about depression management were associated with a rejection of supernatural explanations of the origin of depression. Conclusions: Nonpsychiatrist medical practitioners in Pakistan hold a range of views about the cause of depression, with supernatural explanations held by more than a third. Attitudes toward depression seem less positive than those among UK and European clinicians, with the notion that depression is attributed to a lack of stamina and willpower and a commonly held belief that it is a natural part of growing old; more positive attitudes seem to be associated with a rejection of supernatural explanatory models of depression.
  • Editor: Baltimore: Elsevier Inc
  • Idioma: Inglês
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