The North Italian innovative project for common psychiatric disorders: Evaluating the output of a treatment model of an outpatient clinic for anxiety and depression

Ivano Caselli; Alessandra De Leo; Celeste Isella; Alessandro Bellini; Marta Ielmini; Camilla Callegari

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.1024857

The North Italian innovative project for common psychiatric disorders: Evaluating the output of a treatment model of an outpatient clinic for anxiety and depression

Front Public Health. 2023 Jan 10:10:1024857. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1024857. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Ivano Caselli¹, Alessandra De Leo¹, Celeste Isella¹, Alessandro Bellini², Marta Ielmini¹, Camilla Callegari¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Surgery, Section of Psychiatry, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
² Department of Medicine and Surgery, Section of Psychiatry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

Abstract

Depressive disorders were considered the first causes of disability worldwide as early as 2018. The outpatient clinic for anxiety and depression at the University Hospital of Varese represents a service that fully responds to the growing number of requests. Approximately 1,350 medical records have been opened from 2010 to December 2021. The most frequent presenting diagnoses included anxiety disorders (36.8%), severe stress and maladaptation syndromes (35.5%), and depressive episodes (18%). The outpatient clinic has proved to be a model with great impact on users offering a range of diagnostic and therapeutic offers responding to the requests of the community.

Keywords: anxiety; depression; innovative project; outpatient; psychiatric disorders.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ambulatory Care Facilities
Anxiety / therapy
Anxiety Disorders / therapy
Depression* / therapy
Humans
Mental Disorders*

Grants and funding

The innovative project common psychiatric disorders: Treatment in cooperation with general practitioners, TR-73 is fully funded by the Lombardy region.