The FPs considered recognising, diagnosing and managing depressive- and anxiety disorders as an important task.
The FPs valued recognising, diagnosing and managing depressive and anxiety disorders as important primary care tasks.
He experienced that the training, provided before the start of the project to all participating GPs, was more helpful in this respect, just like the flowchart for recognising, diagnosing and stepped care treatment allocation for anxiety and depressive disorders.
The GPs who perceived barriers in diagnosis, stepped care allocation and having insufficient knowledge of brief interventions, were reminded to use the previously offered flowchart for recognising, diagnosing, and stepped care treatment allocation for anxiety and depressive disorders.
However, there should be a high index of clinical suspicion to recognise, diagnose, and manage it appropriately, as complications may be fatal.
Second, in order to relieve an otherwise insupportable load on specialists, health-care providers in general and GPs in particular need better knowledge of how to recognise, diagnose and treat migraine (along with the small number of other headache disorders that are of public-health importance) [18, 32].
The reasons why primary care practitioners apparently struggle to recognise, diagnose and then manage depression in people with LTCs remain uncertain.
As the field of sleep medicine advances and more patients are diagnosed with OSAS and other sleep disorders, primary care clinicians will need to be able to recognise, diagnose, and treat these conditions.
As the preliminary survey conducted at the start of our research showed, the majority of health centres in rural Cameroon currently neither dispose of adequate equipment and drugs, nor do caregivers possess the necessary knowledge to recognise, diagnose and treat hypertension and diabetes.
In recent years, myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries (MINCA) has been increasingly recognised and diagnosed.
