title: [Psychotherapy in general practice of physicians and psychologists].
abstract: This study tries to reveal the epidemiology of outpatient psychotherapy in practices in a defined northern area of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, 2.66 Mill. inhabitants) by a postal questioning of all medical (n = 242) and psychological (n = 45) psychotherapists registered. Psychotherapy was defined as enclosing at least 10 meetings. 54.7% of the questionnaires were returned to us. An analysis on this database showed that 8310 adult patients were psychotherapeutically treated within one year (0.3% of the population). On the base of different epidemiological studies the treatment prevalence widely differed from 3.9 to 31.9%. The majority of diagnoses were reactive disorders or neuroses (52.8%) and psychosomatic disorders (24.3%). Patients out of middle and upper social classes, with higher educational levels, and from urban areas (> 100 000 inhabitants) were more likely to be treated than others. This trend was significantly more apparent in psychologists than in physicians.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Driessen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petzold
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dilling
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
vernacular_title: Psychotherapie in der Praxis niedergelassener Arzte und Psychologen.