Trial reportBMC health services research2011
A multidisciplinary primary care team consultation in a socio-economically deprived community: an exploratory randomised controlled trial.
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- Can integrated care interventions strengthen primary care and improve outcomes for patients with chronic diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Health research policy and systems · 2025Pooled it
- Interprofessional collaboration in primary care: what effect on patient health? A systematic literature review.BMC primary care · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions to increase or decrease the length of primary care physicians' consultation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Collaboration between local health and local government agencies for health improvement.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and Perception of Risk in Croatian Patients with Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV-A Cross-Sectional Study.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Do primary care professionals agree about progress with implementation of primary care teams: results from a cross sectional study.BMC family practice · 2016Article
- The impact of primary healthcare reform on equity of utilization of services in the province of Quebec: a 2003-2010 follow-up.International journal for equity in health · 2015Article
- Primary care teams in Ireland: a qualitative mapping review of Irish grey and published literature.Irish journal of medical science · 2015Review
- The common characteristics and outcomes of multidisciplinary collaboration in primary health care: a systematic literature review.International journal of integrated careArticle
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundPsychosocial problems in socioeconomically deprived communities are not always amenable to traditional medical approaches. Mothers living in these areas are a particularly vulnerable group. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a lengthened multi-disciplinary team consultation in primary care in reducing anxiety and depression in mothers.
methodsThis was a prospective randomised controlled trial of a multidisciplinary team consultation against normal care. 94 mothers were recruited from three general practices from an area of extreme socio-economic deprivation. Mothers randomised into the intervention group attended a multidisciplinary consultation with up to four case-specific health care professionals. Consultations addressed medical, psychological and social problems and lasted up to one hour. Conventional primary care continued to be available to the intervention families. Control group families received normal primary care services. The outcomes measured were anxiety and depression as using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), health status using SF36v2, and quality of life using the abbreviated Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL-DW) at baseline, 6 months and 12 months.
resultsOrdered logistic regression was used to analyse the data. There was no significant difference found between intervention and control groups after 6 months and 12 months in all of the measured outcomes.
conclusionsThe new lengthened multi-disciplinary team consultation did not have any impact on the mental health, general health, and quality of life of mothers after 6 and 12 months. Other methods of primary health care delivery in socio-economically deprived communities need to be evaluated.
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