A investigation of non-psychiatric doctors' knowledge and attitude toward depression / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate non-psychiatric doctors' knowledge and attitude toward depression. Method Self-made Depressive Knowledge Questionaire (DKQ), which includes 24 items covering general knowledge, symptoms and other related questions of depression, were used in 346 non-psychiatric doctors who came from different grade general hospitals of Hunan. Results Average score of DKQ was 13.53±2.08,and corrective answering rates to different questions were 14.5％～95.4%.There were some associations between DKQ's score and grade of hospitals, subjects' education and attitude to depression. Conclusion It is necessary to re-educate non-psychiatric doctors with depressive knowledge.