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Depression Management in Primary Care in Lithuania and Latvia STYRAITE, BUKA, SARSKUTE et al. Depression Managment – Lithuania, Latvia 2020 Depression Management in Primary Care in Lithuania and Latvia Depresijos diagnostika ir gydymas Lietuvos ir Latvijos pirminėje sveikatos priežiūroje Greta STYRAITE1, Anete Ance BUKA2, Agne SARSKUTE3, Davis VECMUKTANS4, Jurate PECELIUNIENE1,5 1,3 Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania 2,4 University of Latvia Faculty of Medicine, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Latvia 5 Clinic of Internal Diseases, Family Medicine and Oncology, Vilnius, Lithuania SUMMARY SANTRAUKA Background. Lithuania (LT) and Latvia (LV) have high prevalence Įvadas. Lietuvoje (LT) ir Latvijoje (LV) depresijos ir susijusių of depressive disorder with one of the highest prevalence of suicide sutrikimų paplitimas yra aukštas, o pagal savižudybių skaičių šios in Europe. A critical first step in the provision of treatments for any šalys pirmauja Europoje. Sveikatos priežiūros sistemoje šeimos disorder is its effective recognition. General practitioners (GPs) are medicinos gydytojai dažniausiai yra pirmieji su kuriais kontaktuoja usually the first contact of the health care system that are obligated pacientai, tai suteikia galimybę atpažinti depresiją ankstyvoje stadijoje to recognize depression at an early stage in order to manage it within ir ją sėkmingai kontroliuoti bendradarbiaujant su tarpdisciplinine an interdisciplinary team successfully. Primary care providers play komanda. Pirminės sveikatos priežiūros paslaugų teikėjai vaidina a central role in managing depression and concurrent physical pagrindinį vaidmenį gydant depresiją ir gretutines somatines ligas, comorbidities, and they face challenges in diagnosing and treating todėl jie susiduria su iššūkiais diagnozuojant ir gydant tokias būkles. the condition. Good mental health care outcomes provided by GPs’ Veiksmingi psichikos sveikatos priežiūros strategijos žingsniai are related with GPs’ skills in diagnosing and treating depressive ir gairės itin svarbūs, užtikrinant sėkmingą depresinių sutrikimų disorders. Effective mental health protocols and guidelines are the kontroliavimą pirminės sveikatos priežiūros grandyje. basis to assure successful depression management in primary care Tikslas. apžvelgti LV ir LT esančias psichikos sveikatos priežiūros (PC). strategijas, gaires, strateginius žingsnius bei naujausius literatūros The Aim. to review current Lithuanian and Latvian mental health duomenis apie šeimos gydytojų pareigas, dalyvavimą, pasitikėjimą strategies, protocols, guidelines also to evaluate recent literature data savimi ir įgūdžius atpažįstant ir gydant depresiją kasdieninėje on GPs’ duties, involvement, self-confidence, skills in recognizing praktikoje. and managing depression in their daily practices. Metodai. literatūros paieška bei apžvalga buvo atlikta naudojantis Materials and methods: literature search and review were conducted LT ir LV psichikos sveikatos priežiūros reglamentais, gairėmis, by using Lithuanian and Latvian mental health care protocols for PC, statistinėmis duomenų bazėmis, PSO statistiniais duomenimis, guidelines, local and WHO statistical bases and studies on depression PubMed ir Medline duomenų bazėse esančiais tyrimais apie depresijos recognition, diagnosing, treatment and prevention in PC in both, LT atpažinimą, diagnozavimą, gydymą ir prevenciją pirminėje sveikatos and LV from PubMed and Medline databases. priežiūros grandyje Lietuvoje ir Latvijoje. Results. Lithuanian and Latvian Health Care systems do not provide Rezultatai. LT ir LV sveikatos priežiūros sistemos neturi parengusios guidelines addressed for GPs on how to recognize, diagnose and depresijos atpažinimo, diagnozavimo, ligos sekimo priežiūros gairių follow-up patients with depression in PC. GPs have only general skirtų šeimos gydytojams. Šeimos gydytojams pateiktos tik bendro recommendations. Only treatment recommendations are indicated in pobūdžio rekomendacijos. Abiejose šalyse pateiktos panašios both countries, however, steps differ as well as reimbursement levels. depresijos gydymo rekomendacijos, tačiau skiriasi ligos gydymo Our review suggests that GPs have doubts about their clinical skills etapų bei vaistų kompensacijos tvarka. Mūsų apžvalga rodo, kad LT ir and preparedness to recognize and treat depression in both, LT and LV šeimos gydytojai abejoja savo klinikiniais įgūdžiais ir pasirengimu LV. atpažinti bei gydyti depresinius sutrikimus. Discussion. clinical practice guidelines and recommendations are Diskusija. šeimos gydytojams yra reikalingos gairės ir rekomendacijos needed for GPs in order to assure effective recognition, diagnosing tinkamam depresijos atpažinimui, diagnostikai ir gydymui klinikinėje and treatment of depression in PC. Further training is needed to praktikoje. LT ir LV reikalingi papildomi šeimos gydytojų mokymai, improve GPs’ skills in mental health management in LT and LV. skirti klinikinių įgūdžių lavinimui psichikos sveikatos priežiūros Key words: general practitioner; primary care; depression; mental srityje. health; Lithuania; Latvia Raktiniai žodžiai: šeimos medicinos gydytojas; pirminė sveikatos priežiūra; depresija; psichinė sveikata; Lietuva; Latvija Corresponding author: Greta Styraite, Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, M. K. Čiurlionio g. 21/27, Vilnius LT-00135, Lithuania. E-mail: greta. [email protected] Vol. 22, No 1, 2020, May BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 17 Review INTRODUCTION Table 1. Prevalence of depressive disorders in Europe [18] The importance of depression as an international and Prevalence of depressive disorders major public health problem, and the importance of primary Country Total cases % of population care-based support for the majority of people with depression Lithuania 169 685 5.6 are now well recognized [1–4]. One decade ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that depression was the Latvia 102 702 4.9 leading cause of disability and the fourth leading contributor to Estonia 75 667 5.9 the global burden of disease [5]. Recently, the WHO stated that Poland 1 878 988 5.1 depression is still a leading cause of disability worldwide, and Czech Republic 525 488 5.2 a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease [6]. Finland 293 921 5.6 These numbers are still increasing despite the Prevention and Sweden 446 734 4.9 management of depression in PC in Europe as a holistic model Norway 227 446 4.7 of care and interventions – position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care was introduced 10 years ago [5,7]. Denmark 267 213 5.0 Depression is expected to become one of the three leading causes of burden of disease by 2030 [8]. Globally, depressive disorders databases, dated 2010–2020. According to the Latvian Centre are ranked as the single largest contributor to non-fatal health for Disease Prevention and Control (CDPC) the number of loss (7,5 %. Of all years of life disabled, YLD) [6]. Care of patients with mental and behavioral disorders in the Latvian patients with chronic diseases like depression is frequently not Registry is increasing [26,27]. According to the 2016 Survey proactive in PC including with other mental health problems, of Habits Affecting the Health of the Population of Latvia, which must be solved in a very complex manner by GPs’ [9]. It 48.4% of the population aged 15–64 have experienced tension, is estimated that 10–14% of patients seen in PC clinics at any stress and depression in the last month. 6.2% of the population given time have major depression. Unfortunately, reports also noted that tension, stress and depression are common (5.2% of suggest that half of these PC patients will not be recognized as men and 7.2% of women). 6.6% of the respondents complained having depression [10]. According to the Ministry of Health of depression in the last month, while 16.3% of them have of the Republic of Lithuania, one of the main priorities in the complained of insomnia [26]. Creating a psycho-friendly, public health sector is improvement of mental health [11] as supportive and understanding-based environment in the family, well as by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Latvia [12]. at school, in relationships with friends, in relationships with In order to ensure psychosocial wellbeing of people and more peers, in society, is reported by Latvian authorities as crucial to versatile assistance to persons with problems of mental health, promoting psycho-emotional well-being [26]. the Strategy on Mental Health of Lithuania has been developed With regard to the mental health of children and [11]. Despite these efforts, leading countries of mood, anxiety adolescents, school bullying is a common form of violence disorders and suicidal ideation still remain Baltic states within that has a markedly negative impact on the psyche, related Europe [13] with poor recognition and management of mental to depressive disorders. The prevalence of bullying in Latvia disorders by GPs’ in Lithuania [14,15] and Latvia [16,17], and is high, not only because of the high proportion of 13.6% with both states having highest rates of suicide in the world of pupils who are victims in the 11, 13 and 15 age groups, [13]. Consequently, this review seeks to review Lithuanian but also among the 42 countries and regions participating in and Latvian mental health strategies, protocols, guidelines and the International Student Health Behavior Survey. Latvia is recent literature on GPs’ duties, involvement, self-confidence ranked in the second place in terms of the number of victims and skills in recognizing
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