ArticleActa psychiatrica Scandinavica2012
Primary care physicians' and psychiatrists' approaches to treating mild depression.
Article in Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Physicians' Approaches to Caring for Adult Adopted Patients.Annals of family medicine · 2025Article
- Association between prescriber practices and major depression treatment outcomes.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on electroconvulsive therapy practice across Canadian provinces during the first wave of the pandemic.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- The NERSH Questionnaire and Pool of Data from 12 Countries: Development and Description.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Perceived need and availability of psychosocial interventions across buprenorphine prescriber specialties.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- Physician race and treatment preferences for depression, anxiety, and medically unexplained symptoms.Ethnicity & health · 2015Article
- Religion and anxiety treatments in primary care patients.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2013Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo measure how primary care physicians (PCPs) and psychiatrists treat mild depression.
methodWe surveyed a national sample of US PCPs and psychiatrists using a vignette of a 52-year-old man with depressive symptoms not meeting Major Depressive Episode criteria. Physicians were asked how likely they were to recommend an antidepressant counseling, combined medication, and counseling or to make a psychiatric referral.
resultsResponse rate was 896/1427 PCPs and 312/487 for psychiatrists. Compared with PCPs, psychiatrists were more likely to recommend an antidepressant (70% vs. 56%), counseling (86% vs. 54%), or the combination of medication and counseling (61% vs. 30%). More psychiatrists (44%) than PCPs (15%) were 'very likely' to promote psychiatric referral. PCPs who frequently attended religious services were less likely (than infrequent attenders) to refer the patient to a psychiatrist (12% vs. 18%); and more likely to recommend increased involvement in meaningful relationships/activities (50% vs. 41%) and religious community (33% vs. 17%).
conclusionPsychiatrists treat mild depression more aggressively than PCPs. Both are inclined to use antidepressants for patients with mild depression.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.