Michael Albert, chief of internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, said he hopes the recommendation may lay the groundwork to help close the existing shortage in mental health resources — such as loan relief for students entering a mental health profession, and better reimbursement from insurance companies for mental health care — to allow for better access to mental health care.“I applaud the USPSTF recommendation,” he said.
Implementing screening for them would almost certainly increase the number of people who are diagnosed and treated — putting pressure on an“There’s a potential bottleneck at the beginning when we have a lot of professionals who are already stretched thin providing services to people who’ve had anxiety problems or depression that are persistent and chronic and therefore require more effort and energy,” said, associate chief of practice transformation at the American Psychological Association.
In making its recommendation, the task force looked at research concerning a number of scales that can be used to screen for anxiety disorders., for example, asks patients to rate their potential anxiety symptoms over the past two weeks, using questions such as how often they have felt “nervous, anxious or on edge,” been “so restless that it is hard to sit still,” or felt afraid, “as if something awful might happen.