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The Article in Brief
Managing Depression Among Ethnic Communities: A Qualitative Study
John Furler , and colleagues
Background This study reports on how family physicians experience working with patients from different ethnic minority communities in recognizing and caring for depression.
What This Study Found Working across cultural differences--with both biomedical and social models of depression and at both the community and individual levels--is not a barrier to high-quality care, but rather a central element of that care. Family physicians in this study negotiated across differences in ethnicity, culture, and language using a sensitive, implicit process.
Implications
- Family physicians provide a unique form of depression care that includes dealing with difference.
- Future research should explore the process of negotiating difference as part of depression care and its relationship to clinical outcomes and physician and patient characteristics.