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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 177-182Publisher
AMER BOARD FAMILY MEDICINE
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.120221
Keywords
Anxiety; Decision Making; Depression; Mental Health; Prevention; Primary Health Care; Screening; Sedentary Lifestyle; Substance Abuse
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- Oakley Mental Health Foundation
- Health Research Council
- Charitable Trust of the Auckland Faculty of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
- Research and Education Charitable Trust of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
- Ministry of Health Mental Health Directorate
- Institute of Rural Health, Hamilton
- University of Auckland
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This article describes eCHAT (electronic case-finding and help assessment tool), designed to improve health and well-being through systematic screening and intervention for modifiable lifestyle and mental health issues in primary care populations and monitoring to inform continuous quality improvement. eCHAT allows patients to identify unhealthy behaviors (risky substance use, gambling, being subject to abuse, physical inactivity) and negative mood states (depression, anxiety, anger) with which they would like help before a visit using an iPad in the waiting room or via the Internet in the community. Family physicians access summarized results, including scores and interpretations of screening tests at the point of care. eCHAT stimulates conversations between patients and clinicians about life changes they might make, encouraging active participation in decision making and engagement in self-management. Stepped-care clinical decision support tools offer interventions through self-management options to primary care interventions through to secondary care referral. As well as systematically screening and intervening in individual practice populations, anonymous collated and encrypted data also can be used to measure the mental health and lifestyle risk factors and interventions provided at practice network, regional, and national levels to monitor system and organizational performance improvements, identify regional and national variations, benchmark service delivery, and support quality improvement. (J Am Board Fam Med 2013; 26:177-182.)
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