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Table 1 Overview of all measures used in this paper

From: Does the attention General Practitioners pay to their patients' mental health problems add to their workload? A cross sectional national survey

Measure

Type of data collection

Dependent:

 

Workload

 

- Working hours weekly (objective)

GP diary 1 week

- Number of patient contacts weekly (objective)

Contact registration 1 year

- Satisfaction with the available time (subjective)

GP questionnaire

- Emotional exhaustion (subjective)

GP questionnaire

Independent:

 

GP's attention for mental health problems

 

- GP's role perception with respect to mental health problems

GP questionnaire

- % contacts with psychological or social diagnoses

Contact registration 1 year

GP, practice and patient characteristics

 

- Sex, age, years of establishment, personal list size

GP questionnaire

- Degree of urbanisation

GP questionnaire

- % of publicly insured, women, 65+, non-Western, unemployed and low educated patients

Patient registration