The impact of depression and anxiety on the overall morbidity of the Greek population and the role of socio-economic factors

Abstract

Common mental disorders account for about 12% of the global burden of disease, causing extremely significant patient dysfunction and significantly increasing global health care costs. In Greece, few population-level epidemiological studies have been conducted and of those available, none provide a comprehensive picture that is comparable to the European level. At the same time, the involvement of socioeconomic parameters in the development of psychopathology and, at the same time, the coexistence of physical symptoms and diseases, lead patients to doctors of various specialties in 70-80% of cases. However, the detection rates of depression and anxiety in primary health care range below 50% on average, since there are few reliable data on the existing easy-to-use and brief detection tools for these conditions and, in our country, they have not been used to date, resulting in many patients remaining undiagnosed and hence untreated. Furthermore, particularly in studies with a large popula ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/56886
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/56886
ND
56886
Alternative title
Η συμβολή της κατάθλιψης και του άγχους στη γενική νοσηρότητα του ελληνικού πληθυσμού και ο ρόλος των κοινωνικό-οικονομικών παραγόντων
Author
Christodoulaki, Anna (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2024
Degree Grantor
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Committee members
Τουλούμη Παναγιώτα
Πλουμπίδης Δημήτριος
Ψάρρος Κωνσταντίνος
Αναγνωστόπουλος Δημήτριος
Δικαίος Δημήτριος
Σύψα Βασιλική
Πανταζής Νικόλαος
Discipline
Medical and Health SciencesClinical Medicine ➨ Psychiatry and Mental Health
Medical and Health SciencesHealth Sciences ➨ Health sciences, general
Keywords
Anxiety; Depression; Mental health; PHQ-4; Comorbidity; Validation; Screening
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
im., tbls., maps, ch.
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