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Association of common mental disorders and quality of life with the frequency of attendance in slovenian family medicine practices: longitudinal study.

Rifel, J; Svab, I; Selič, P; Rotar Pavlič, D; Nazareth, I; Car, J; (2013) Association of common mental disorders and quality of life with the frequency of attendance in slovenian family medicine practices: longitudinal study. PLoS One , 8 (1) , Article e54241. 10.1371/journal.pone.0054241. Green open access

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Abstract

Most research on frequent attendance has been cross-sectional and restricted to one year attendance rates. A few longitudinal studies suggest that frequent attendance is self-limiting. Frequent attenders are more likely to have social and psychiatric problems, medically unexplained physical symptoms, chronic somatic diseases (especially diabetes) and are prescribed more psychotropic medication and analgesics.

Type: Article
Title: Association of common mental disorders and quality of life with the frequency of attendance in slovenian family medicine practices: longitudinal study.
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054241
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054241
Language: English
Additional information: © 2013 Rifel et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This study was was funded by the Slovenian Research Agency. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Primary Care and Population Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1384774
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