THE PSYCHOSOMATIC PSYCHOLOGICAL DEMAND AN D MEDICAL-CARE IN THE PRIMARY-CARE HOSPITAL

Citation
U. Schlebergerdein et al., THE PSYCHOSOMATIC PSYCHOLOGICAL DEMAND AN D MEDICAL-CARE IN THE PRIMARY-CARE HOSPITAL, PPmP. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie, 44(3-4), 1994, pp. 99-107
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
ISSN journal
09372032
Volume
44
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
99 - 107
Database
ISI
SICI code
0937-2032(1994)44:3-4<99:TPPDAD>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A questionnaire submitted in 1986 to ward physicians in internal medic ine in 9 out of 11 public hospitals (eight General Hospitals and the U niversity Hospital) in the city of Hamburg documents their remarkable awareness of psychosocial problems. Noticable, however, is the compara bly low assessment of the prevalence of psychosomatic diseases. The de sire for assistance through a psychossomatic consultation service is m uch greater than actual rates of request. The status of psychosomatic care is judged to be very unsatisfactory. The collected data and the b road agreement to integrate psychosomatic forms of organization into t he care of medical in-patients lead to the conclusion that there is an encouragingly great readiness to co-operate. Considering the very dif ferent experiences found in already existing models, the results indic ate the necessity of a more in-depth examination of the process of co- operation between somatics and psychosomatics.