Table 3.
Comparison of Mental Health Practice concerning patients seen during one week for General Practitioners, Private and Public Psychiatrists.
| Patients of General Practitioners | Patients of private psychiatrists | Patients of public psychiatrists | Chi2 test or ANOVA | |
| New patients (N = 603) (Percentage of MHP patients) | N = 439 (28.9%) | N = 73 (6.1%) | N = 91 (15.1%) | |
| Patient recruitment (%) | <0.0001 | |||
| Patient | 88.4 | 61.6 | 42.8 | |
| Family | 14.1 | 23.3 | 17.6 | |
| GPs | 0.0 | 26.0 | 24.2 | |
| Psychiatrist | 0.0 | 6.8 | 19.8 | |
| Percentage of patients who consulted too late according to the professional (%) | 25.2 | 60.7 | 52.6 | <0.0001 |
| Care project = management by the professional (%) | 70.2 | 89.1 | 88.6 | <0.0001 |
| Wish for collaboration with another physician (%) | 42.3 | 9.6 | 61.1 | <0.0001 |
| Patients already known (N= 2724) (Percentage of MHP patients) | N = 1079 (71.1%) | N = 1130 (93.9%) | N = 515 (84.9%) | |
| Mean days from last consultation (sd) | 36.4 (34.9) | 17.6 (16.4) | 25.7 (18.5) | <0.0001 |
| Collaboration with other professionals (%) | 26.3 | 29.6 | 53.4 | <0.0001 |
| Type of care (%) | ||||
| Pharmacological treatment | - | 18.9 | 51.5 | |
| Psychotherapy | - | 52.9 | 16.8 | |
| Both | - | 28.2 | 31.8 | |