Trial reportBMC family practice2009
Somatisation in primary care: experiences of primary care physicians involved in a training program and in a randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC family practice, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00130988 (Efficacy of a Biopsychosocial Treatment for Somatizing Patients Carried Out by the General Practitioner), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Efficacy of a Biopsychosocial Treatment for Somatizing Patients Carried Out by the General Practitioner
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Behavioural modification interventions for medically unexplained symptoms in primary care: systematic reviews and economic evaluation.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Pooled it
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- Functional neurological disorder, physical activity and exercise: What we know and what we can learn from comorbid disorders.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2024Review
- Improving Patient Outcomes: Effectively Training Healthcare Staff in Psychological Practice Skills: A Mixed Systematic Literature Review.Europe's journal of psychology · 2015Review
- Initial responses of different health care professionals to various patients with headache: which are perceived as difficult?International journal of behavioral medicine · 2013Article
- The treatment of patients with medically unexplained symptoms in primary care: a review of the literature.Mental health in family medicine · 2010Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundA new intervention aimed at managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) based on a specific set of communication techniques was developed, and tested in a cluster randomised clinical trial. Due to the modest results obtained and in order to improve our intervention we need to know the GPs' attitudes towards patients with MUS, their experience, expectations and the utility of the communication techniques we proposed and the feasibility of implementing them. Physicians who took part in 2 different training programs and in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) for patients with MUS were questioned to ascertain the reasons for the doctors' participation in the trial and the attitudes, experiences and expectations of GPs about the intervention.
methodsA qualitative study based on four focus groups with GPs who took part in a RCT. A content analysis was carried out.
resultsFollowing the RCT patients are perceived as true suffering persons, and the relationship with them has improved in GPs of both groups. GPs mostly valued the fact that it is highly structured, that it made possible a more comfortable relationship and that it could be applied to a broad spectrum of patients with psychosocial problems. Nevertheless, all participants consider that change in patients is necessary; GPs in the intervention group remarked that that is extremely difficult to achieve.
conclusionGPs positively evaluate the communication techniques and the interventions that help in understanding patient suffering, and express the enormous difficulties in handling change in patients. These findings provide information on the direction in which efforts for improving intervention should be directed.
trial registrationUS ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00130988.
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