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Volume 20 International Journal of Emergency Mental
Health and Human Resilience
ISSN: 1522-4821
Mental Health 2018
April 26-27, 2018
April 26-27, 2018 | Rome, Italy
4th International Conference on
Mental Health and Human Resilience
Depression, anxiety and satisfaction with primary health care: is there any connection?
Rima Kavalniene, Lukas Aranauskas and Aušra Deksnyte
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Background &Aim: Anxiety and depression are among the most common psychiatric disorders in primary health care (PHC).
These diseases are associated with disability and poor quality of life. There is high comorbidity between anxiety, depression and
other chronic somatic diseases. Anxiety and depression are also associated with worse treatment outcomes and higher amount
of complications in chronic somatic diseases. However, connection between this diseases and patient`s satisfaction with PHC
services has not been previously well studied. The main aim of this study is to determine the connections between depression,
anxiety and patient`s satisfaction with PHC services.
Methodology: 889 patients in PHC centers were randomly selected and asked to fill out the questionnaire. Patients came to
their PHC centers for variouse reasons. Patient satisfaction questionnaire, short version (PSQ-18, Marshall and Hays), was
used to determine patient satisfaction. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD, Zigmond and Snaith) was also used.
Data analysis was performed using the SPSS 24.0. A ρ-value<0.05 was considered as indicative of statistical significance.
Findings: 887 questionnaires were used in data analysis. Both anxiety and depression subscales strongly correlated with each
other (Spearman`s correlation coefficient 0.742) (ρ<0.001). Also, the worse estimates of both anxiety and depression subscales
correlated with the worse overall score and all subscales of PSQ-18 (Spearman`s correlation coefficient -0.462 and -0.536
respectively) (ρ<0,001). The linear regression analysis of all data (the dependent variable was total PSQ-18 score) showed that
the major factor leading to poorer satisfaction with PHC services was a higher depression subscale score (ρ <0.001) (Table 1).
The correlation between anxiety and PSQ-18 score has gone.
Conclusion: The presence of depression leads to poorer satisfaction with PHC services. Depression is a strong factor influencing
patients' perception of PSP services, which sometimes can be masked and stay unnoticed among the other factors.
Recent Publications:
1. Sundquist J, Ohlsson H, Sundquist K and Kendler KS (2017) Common adult psychiatric disorders in Swedish primary
care where most mental health patients are treated. BMC Psychiatry. (17): 235.
2. Buszewicz M J (2011) Improving the detection and management of anxiety disorders in primary care. Br J Gen Pract.
61(589):489-490.
3. Sadeniemi M, Pikola S, Pankakoski M, Joffe G and all (2014) Does primary care mental health resourcing affect the use
and cost of secondary psychiatric services? Int J Environ Res Public Health. 11 (9):8743-8754.
4. Wandell P, Carlsson AC, Gasevic D, Wahlstram L and all (2016) Depression or anxiety and all-cause mortality in
adults with atrial fibrilation – A cohort study in Swedish primary care. Ann Med. 48 (1-2): 59-66.
5. Treating depression and anxiety in primary care (2008) Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 10 (2):145-152..
Biography
Rima Kavalniene is pursuing her PhD at Vilnius University Medical Faculty in Lithuania. She works as Family Doctor in Primary Health Care Clinic. She is interested
in current issues of Mental Health in Primary Health Care. Her PhD is about finding connection between some sociodemographic factors as well as most common
mental diseases and patient satisfaction with primary health care services.
Rima Kavalniene et al., Int J Emerg Ment Health 2018, Volume 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-012