Table 3.

General practitioner prescribing patterns as a function of patient baseline symptom severity (N=334).

Treatment prescribed by general practitionera	Patients with mild symptoms (n=101), n (%)	Patients with moderate symptoms (n=140), n (%)	Patients with severe symptoms (n=93), n (%)
Prescribed web-based self-help	33 (32.7)	15 (10.7)	12 (12.9)
Prescribed guided web-based therapy	11 (10.9)	28 (20)	15 (16.1)
Prescribed psychologist	22 (21.8)	59 (42.1)	54 (58.1)
Prescribed medication	8 (7.9)	50 (35.7)	51 (54.8)
Prescribed psychiatrist	2 (2)	8 (5.7)	21 (22.6)

^aPercentages reflect the percentage of patients in each symptom severity category; column percentage totals do not sum to 100% as patients in the same symptom severity category could be prescribed multiple treatments or no treatment at all.