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Less than half of postnatal depression cases are identified in routine clinical assessment. Guidelines and current literature suggest that general practitioners (GPs) may have an opportunistic role in detecting postnatal depression due to their early contact and existing rapport with many new mothers. There is limited research on the diagnostic approaches chosen by GPs in different GP-patient contexts. Our small-scale study evaluates the thought processes of seven GPs based in ... - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Primary Health Care Research and Development Journal website
- Volume:
- 21
- Article number:
- e42
- Publication date:
- 2020-10-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-07-10
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1477-1128
- ISSN:
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1463-4236
- Pmid:
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33032675
- Pubs id:
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1138189
- Local pid:
- pubs:1138189
- Language:
- English
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- Format:
- Electronic
- Copyright holder:
- Sriranjan et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- ©2020 The Author(s).
- Notes:
- This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- License:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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Towards an understanding of GPs' viewpoint on diagnosing postnatal depression in general practice: a small-scale realist evaluation
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