Publications by authors named "Carlos de las Cuevas-Castresana"
Objective: To identify the consumption pathway and strategies of coping with antidepressants use from the patients perspective.
Design: Qualitative research.
Setting: Tenerife.
The relationship among mental health status (GHQ-12), health related quality of life (EQ-5D) and health-state utilities in a general population.
Pedro Serrano-Aguilar Yolanda Ramallo-Fariña Maria del Mar Trujillo-Martín Sergio Raul Muñoz-Navarro Lilisbeth Perestelo-Perez Carlos de las Cuevas-Castresana
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc
February 2010
Aim: To assess the relationship between mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in the general population, and to map GHQ-12 as a screening test for population psychological distress to a generic health state measure (EQ-5D) in order to estimate health state values and allow deriving quality-adjusted life years.
Methods: Relationship between mental health and HRQL was examined from the 2004 Canary Islands' Health Survey. Participants were classified as probable psychiatric cases according to GHQ-12.