MULTIMEDIA TRAINING DISC--DEPRESSION

描述：（改编自申请人的摘要） 抑郁症造成的个人、经济和社会代价， 抑郁症的诊断和治疗严重不足。 初级 护理医生，最有可能观察到症状的人 临床抑郁症和启动治疗，错过更多的情况下，比他们 认识。 由于情绪障碍的耻辱感， 通常不愿意遵守治疗方案。 事实上， 诊断的缺失/延迟和耻辱感联合收割机 这种疾病在美国人口中的严重程度和发病率。 教育是迫切需要的。 认识到教育的必要性 关于抑郁症，特别是初级保健医生， 患者，AHCPR致力于生成临床实践 1993年4月，抑郁症指南作为其最早的努力之一。 申请人表示，本指导原则中的数据是合理的， 开发人员是非常合格的;但该指南的影响 不是由这些因素决定的，而是由它在多大程度上决定的。 被雇用。 很少有医生能够花时间阅读 大型抑郁症指南报告;有些人可能会通过 两卷（约300页）浓缩版，希望许多人会 使用快速参考指南和/或向患者分发指南 给他们的客户。 但任何能增加效用的机制 《指南》中的信息将真正促进《指南》的意图， AHCPR。 本项目涉及这样一种机制：多媒体培训 用于向初级抑郁症患者提供有关信息的光盘 护理医生和他们的病人。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from applicant's abstract) There are great personal, economic and societal costs caused by depression and yet depression is significantly under-diagnosed and under-treated. Primary care physicians, the persons most likely to observe the symptoms of clinical depression and initiate treatment, miss more cases than they recognize. Because of the stigma attached to mood disorders, patients are often very unwilling to adhere to treatment protocols. In fact, the absence/lateness of diagnosis and the stigma combine to exacerbate the severity and incidence of this disease in the U.S. population. Education is sorely needed. In recognition of the need for education with respect to depression, especially of primary care physicians and patients, the AHCPR devoted effort to generation of a Clinical Practice Guideline for depression as one of its earliest efforts in April 1993. The applicant states that the data in the Guideline are sound, and its developers are excellently qualified; yet the impact of the Guideline will not be determined by those factors but by the extent to which it is employed. Few physicians will be able to take the time to read the large Depression Guideline Report; some may work their way through the two-volume (about 300 pages) condensed version, and hopefully many will use the Quick Reference Guide and/or distribute the guide for patients to their clientele. But any mechanism that can increase the utility of the information in the Guideline will truly foster the intent of the AHCPR. This project addresses such a mechanism: a multimedia training disc for presentation of information regarding depression to primary care physicians and their patients.