Review: primary care counseling improves psychological symptoms in patients with psychological and psychosocial problems.

D a t a s o u r c e s Studies were identified by searching databases including MEDLINE; EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica; PsycLIT; CINAHL; the Cochrane Library; and the Cochrane Collaboration Depression, Anxiety, and Neurosis Register of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) and controlled clinical trials (for trials completed by April 1998). Search terms included primary health care, counseling, psychotherapy, general practice, and clinical psychology. A specialist journal was hand searched, bibliographies of relevant studies were scanned, and experts were contacted.