Multiple barriers against successful care provision for depressed patients in general internal medicine in a Japanese rural hospital: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Recognition of mental disorders by physicians among patients with major depressive disorder (n = 27) as evaluated by the PHQ.

Recognition by physician	Clinical diagnosis by physician	n	% of patients with major depressive disorder	n	% of patients with major depressive disorder
Any mental disorder		21	77.8
	Mood disorder			3	11.1
	Anxiety disorder			3^a	11.1
	Alcohol-related disorder			1	3.7
	Insomnia			14^b	51.9
	Dementia			1	3.7
	Other			4	14.8
	Uncategorizable			2	7.4
No mental disorder		6	22.2

Because multiple answers were allowed in the clinical psychiatric diagnosis, the total number of diagnoses was 28 and the number of diagnoses per patient was 1.33 for patients with major depressive disorder. Also, the numbers for anxiety and insomnia include patients diagnosed with a mood disorder: ^a1, ^b2.

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