title: [Mental disorders in primary care].
abstract: Mental disorders (depression, anxiety and somatization) are frequent in Primary care and are often associated to physical complaints and to psychosocial stressors. Mental disorders have in this way a specific presentation and in addition patients may present different associations of them. Sometimes it is difficult to recognize them, but it is important to do so and to take rapidly care of these patients. Specific screening questions exist and have been used in a research of the Institute of General Medicine and the Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine (PMU), University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.affiliation: Institut universitaire de médecine générale (IUMG). lilli.herzig@hin.ch
authors.forename: Lilli
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Herzig
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mühlemann
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bischoff
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D015995:Prevalence; D011320:Primary Health Care; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D015431:Weight Loss