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Has your T1D healthcare provider ever asked you to fill out a questionnaire about your mental health during your visits?
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She asks me the questions and she fills it out herself
About once a year until I changed my Primary Care doctor. I see in MyChart that I am due for another evaluation.
I use the MAYO Clinic. Before every visit, I am asked to fill out a lengthy questionnaire, on line, that covers many questions, including insurance coverage, prescriptions, health issues and mental health issues.
Mayo Clinic does top notch research as is indicated by the 7 to 8 pages of forms you fill out at every visit. They gather data from everywhere on everything. If sheer data helps diagnoses and recommendations, Mayo’s must have some very fortunate patients.
But Medicare requires my PCP to have me fill out a questionnaire regarding my mental health annually, which my Endo has access to.
Just as a topic in all the other inquiries, allergies, medications.
Lol, he barely says hello. But I can let my feet do the walking. He is convenient. I am mentally strong and healthy at the moment and I know I am fortunate. I stand with my brothers and sisters who need assistance and pray they get what they need when they need it and can afford it.
To tell the truth, I don’t recall. I know I have been asked about mental health, but I am not sure which doctor’s office asked. All of my doctors are within the same hospital system, so I imagine they all can see any questions I have filled out.
I periodically receive questionnaires on line.
The one time I filled out a question, is when I first started seeing my new endo, it asks simple questions, because logically, depression does hit type 1s.
Ticking boxes.
Maybe a couple of questions at an initial visit. Someone usually asks questions at every visit.
No, not during my appointments. Before each appointment I complete a questionnaire online on the MyChart patient portal that includes a few mental health questions in addition to questions about insurance coverage and contact information.
My Endo doesn’t have to. Several years ago I had to miss an in-person appt because my partner had to be admitted as an inpatient into a mental health facility. When the Endo office called ready to scold me, I explained that my partner’s situation requried my fukl attention. At the next appt, the Endo brought it up and asked how I was doing. My partner’s mental health (and thus mine by default) is a topic of each conversation. Now my Endo signs of messages to me like this: “You are indeed U > /\ V – he gets it!
I will have my first in-person visit with endocrinology this month after moving to a new state and having a year of phone visits. Have been asked “the questions” by my PCP, but not endocrinologist.
The office where I see her has patients fill out a form once a year with standard MH questions. I find the questions to be vague and not very meaningful. It seems more of an obligatory screening tool – by itself it doesn’t really work to determine or disprove whether a person is truly experiencing mental health or mental illness issues. It’s value is to alert the provider IF there is an underlying problem that may need to be addressed.
However, my endocrine provider always asks me what’s going on all levels of my being – physically, mentally, psycho-emotionally, spiritually, and financially. As a result, we discuss what ever needs to be discussed.
My first appointment for this medical trials, I think more a screening to we if I fit their needs. Always hear “how’re you feeling,” but I’m over all a terminally positive person.
She does it once a year at My Annual visit.
It’s only been recently and it’s was due to how diabetics are handling themselves during the pandemic, considering how most of us have switched to phone or video visits and how well we are doing being all cooped up.
Never even a topic of conversation.
My endo does have a survey I do before he sees me that has a few mental health questions but as far as openly discussing anything he has never mentioned it before.