Table 1 Opinion and Task Perspective (N = 186)
From: Care for patients with severe mental illness: the general practitioner's role perspective
Tasks in the acute and long term phase | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Agree | Neutral | Disagree |
For acute confusion, the GP is the first contact | 74% | 19% | 7% |
I feel responsible for the care for chronic psychiatric patients in my practice | 58% | 23% | 19% |
I think it is my job to check on psychiatric patients' ability to take care of themselves | 37% | 30% | 33% |
I think I should monitor somatic co morbidity in chronic psychiatric patients | 81% | 13% | 6% |
Care for family | |||
I think it is my job to support the family of a chronic psychotic patient | 74% | 17% | 9% |
I think it is my job to provide information on the clinical picture to the family of a chronic psychotic patient | 58% | 26% | 16% |
Self-experienced competencies | |||
I feel competent in making contact with the patient in a psychotic crisis | 46% | 35% | 19% |
I feel competent in communicating with the family in a psychotic crisis | 85% | 11% | 4% |
I feel competent in intervening in a crisis situation | 52% | 33% | 15% |
I feel powerless in a psychotic crisis | 18% | 28% | 54% |
I feel unsafe near an acute psychotic patient | 16% | 35% | 49% |
Need for continual professional development training (CPD training) | |||
I need CPD training on guiding of and communicating with psychotic patients | 55% | 27% | 18% |
I need CPD training on interventions in a psychotic crisis | 63% | 20% | 17% |
I need CPD training on antipsychotic pharmacotherapy | 54% | 24% | 22% |