Training General Practitioners in the Treatment of Functional Somatic Symptoms: Effects on Patient Health in a Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial (the Functional Illness in Primary Care Study)
Author(s) -
Tomas Toft,
Marianne Rosendal,
Eva Ørnbøl,
Frede Olesen,
Lisbeth Frostholm,
Per Fink
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
psychotherapy and psychosomatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.531
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1423-0348
pISSN - 0033-3190
DOI - 10.1159/000313691
Subject(s) - somatization , medicine , anxiety , randomized controlled trial , physical therapy , somatization disorder , cluster randomised controlled trial , psychiatry
Patients with medically unexplained or functional somatic symptoms (FSS) are prevalent in primary care. In this pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial we aimed to test the effect of a training programme (The Extended Reattribution and Management model) for general practitioners (GPs) in the treatment of FSS.
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