Patient attitudes to antidepressant treatment: GP perceptions compared with patients' self-reports.
| Patients' responses to the postal questionnaires | GPs' perceptions of patients' attitude towards antidepressants | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive (%) | Not certain (%) | Negative (%) | Total (%) | |
| Phase I | ||||
| How addictive are antidepressants? | ||||
| Very/fairly | 1 (5) | 11 (50) | 10 (45) | 22 (100) |
| Not very/not at all | 5 (38) | 3 (23) | 5 (38) | 13 (100) |
| Total | 6 (17) | 14 (40) | 15 (43) | 35 (100) |
| How effective are antidepressants? | ||||
| Very/fairly | 4 (15) | 13 (48) | 10 (37) | 27 (100) |
| Not very/not at all | 1 (14) | 1 (14) | 5 (71) | 7 (100) |
| Total | 5 (15) | 14 (41) | 15 (44) | 34 (100) |
| Phase II | ||||
| How addictive are antidepressants? | ||||
| Very/fairly | 4 (19) | 3 (14) | 14 (67) | 21 (100) |
| Not very/not at all | 1 (50) | 0 | 1 (50) | 2 (100) |
| Total | 5 (22) | 3 (13) | 15 (65) | 23 (100) |
| How effective are antidepressants? | ||||
| Very/fairly | 3 (18) | 3 (18) | 11 (65) | 17 (100) |
| Not very/not at all | 2 (40) | 0 | 3 (60) | 5 (100) |
| Total | 5 (23) | 3 (14) | 14 (64) | 22 (100) |