Evaluation of the "Platform Model" for Staffing in Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Clinics (EPPIK)

University Hospital Heidelberg

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Psychosomatic Medicine

Treatments: Other: no intervention, purely observational

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05240105

EPPIK

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate the so-called platform model and its suitability to determine staffing in hospitals for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy.

Full description

The aim of the study is to test the suitability of a structural model (so-called platform model) developed by a working group of various scientific societies and professional associations for staffing in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. For this purpose, in three steps (1.) the four treatment clusters developed in the platform model will be quantified and empirically validated on the basis of the therapeutic services provided in health care practice; (2.) the current staffing for the four treatment clusters will be described ("as-is analysis"); and (3.) prototypical therapy plans will be developed as a basis for estimating the target staffing requirements. On this basis, a target staffing estimate will be made for all professional groups.

For the study, a total of 80 psychosomatic clinics from Germany will be randomly selected, belonging in equal parts to the groups of psychosomatic university clinics, psychosomatic specialist hospitals, and psychosomatic departments in somatic or in psychiatric hospitals. In addition, 20 day clinics are included. In these clinics, the structural framework conditions including staffing will be surveyed and the routine documentation of therapy units will be evaluated by cluster analysis in order to empirically validate the presumed treatment clusters and to describe the necessary staffing requirements.

The empirical examination and validation of the platform model, including the four assumed treatment clusters, has the potential to positively influence care practice in the long term by adjusting staffing levels in psychosomatic clinics to actual care requirements.

Enrollment: 5,961 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for Clinics:

• belong to the predefined nationwide population of psychosomatic specialist clinics and departments
• randomly selected for inclusion in the study,
• the clinic management (head physician or comparable) agrees to participation in the study
• possibility of electronic recording of the qualified therapy units for all treating professional groups.

Inclusion Criteria for Patients:

• patient treated in one of the selected clinics on the corresponding ward or day clinic
• at least 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Trial design

5,961 participants in 4 patient groups

Departments for Psychosomatic Medicine at University Clinics

Description:

no study interventions, observational group

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, purely observational

Clinics specialized in Psychosomatic Medicine

Description:

no study interventions, observational group

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, purely observational

Departments for Psychosomatic Medicine at general hospitals

Description:

no study interventions, observational group

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, purely observational

Departments for Psychosomatic Medicine at psychiatric hospitals

Description:

no study interventions, observational group

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, purely observational