Birincil Sağlık Hizmeti İçinde Ruh Sağlığı
Bedirhan Üstün, M. Emin Ceylan, Yunus Çevık, A. Kemal Yaşar
Article No:
2
Article Type :
Research
In this research, depression in taken as a sample to evaluate the quality of mental health care in primary health service. In the last month, at the region of Kazan (centre), Fethiye and Sar ılar village, people between ages 20- 60 with depressive symptoms are found 32%, depression synd ı-ome s found 6.3%. The symptoms are mostly found between ages 40-60, and especially women are more affected. While researching the level of knowledge about depression; 7.2% of people with moderate depressive symptoms applied to the primary health service but neither depression nor other mental disorders are diagnosed. The importance of mental health care is mentioned and some advices are giyen.
Keywords :
Depression, primary health care
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1994;7:9-19
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