Alison Flehr

Anxiety-related and depression-related visits to primary care before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic The long-term mental health burden associated with COVID-19 has been documented across multiple populations,1 including individuals in need of care with substantial and lasting reductions in quality o...

🆕 Karoline Lukaschek reflects on the study findings:

“What this study ultimately demonstrates is that primary care remains the backbone of mental health-care delivery and that its role has intensified in the aftermath of COVID-19”

Read the Comment ➡️
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Figure showing bar charts illustrating the change in the number of anxiety-related and depression-related visits, for male and female patients by age group, between 2018 and 2023 for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Singapore, Sweden and the USA

🆕“Our findings underscore the central role of primary care in anxiety and depression management and highlight the need for sustained funding, workforce support, and age-sensitive and sex-sensitive interventions to address both ongoing and crisis-related mental health demands.”

International health data trends in anxiety-related and depression-related visits to primary care before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study by INTRePID Our findings underscore the central role of primary care in anxiety and depression management and highlight the need for sustained funding, workforce support, and age-sensitive and sex-sensitive inter...

🆕Alison Flehr and colleagues report their multicountry investigation of anxiety-related and depression-related primary care visits and how they have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
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Uniting depression care through generalism: a primary care-informed response to the Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission’s call for action on depression In this Viewpoint, we respond to the 2022 Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission’s call for united action on depression. We present primary care-focused recommendations synthesised from key o...

Excited to see this work now published in @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social
And just in time for #WorldMentalHealthDay

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Cervical screening approach of self-collection, point-of-care HPV testing, and same-day colposcopy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in remote Western Australia (the PREVENT Project): ... We showed the feasibility of integrating portable, same-day cervical screening and follow-up care into remote health-care settings, achieved through successful community engagement and advocacy. These...

🆕 In The Lancet Public Health, read the findings of the PREVENT project, investigating cervical screening via self-collection, with point-of-care HPV testing and same-day colposcopy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Western Australia ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Women’s health issues remain underreported, underrepresented, and under-prioritised—despite making up half the global population.

🎥 In a new video, experts and Lancet Editors advocate for equitable healthcare to transform women’s health: tinyurl.com/22fkf865

Effective Components of Collaborative Care for Depression in Primary Care This meta-analysis using individual patient data assesses which components of collaborative care are most effective in reducing symptoms of depression in primary care.

Effective Components of Collaborative Care for Depression in Primary Care
An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives.

An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who's heading to the NAPCRG 52nd annual meeting?

Check out our conference page where you will find details on all of our workshops, ways to meet our associate editors and more!

🔗https://www.annfammed.org/content/annals-family-medicine-napcrg-2024

We look forward to seeing you in Quebec City.

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

Yes please

So pleased to see one of my favourite people ever here. How are you The Most Fabulous KP?
I am well...currently in Toronto, arrived yesterday 😃