Open AccessAn impact of a digitally driven primary care psychiatry program on the integration of psychiatric care in the general practice of primary care doctors
Author(s) -
Erika Pahuja,
Thamaraiselvan Santhosh Kumar,
Fareed Uzzafar,
Narayana Manjunatha,
Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar,
Ravi Gupta,
Suresh Bada Math
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_324_20
Subject(s) - medicine , formative assessment , guideline , audit , psychiatry , curriculum , population , family medicine , psychology , pedagogy , management , environmental health , pathology , economics
The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among the general population is 10.6%. Primary care doctors (PCDs) are often the first contact for patients with common psychiatric disorders, but the majority of them are ill equipped to handle the same leading to symptomatic treatment. Hence, an innovative digitally driven and modular-based 1-year primary care psychiatry program (PCPP) was designed and implemented exclusively for practicing PCDs of Uttarakhand.