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TEMPO - Telemedical psychiatry and psychotherapy for children and adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic: feasibility, acceptance, satisfaction and pandemic-specific mental stress

TEMPO - Telemedical psychiatry and psychotherapy for children and adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic: feasibility, acceptance, satisfaction and pandemic-specific mental stress - TEMPO

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00023525
Enrollment
300
Registered
2020-11-10
Start date
2020-12-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-04-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

F00-F99 F32

Interventions

Group 1: In this multi-center study, consecutively enrolled patients and / or how-presented or further treated patients are evaluated by expert groups with regard to whether an online first contact or

Sponsors

Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters an der Uniklinik Köln
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
4 Years to 18 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: A total sample of 300 children and young people aged 4 to 18 years is planned. Recruitment of the test subjects is to take place in the context of initial patient registrations and / or follow-up visits (or ongoing treatment) as part of routine care through the following outpatient clinics: Ausbildungsinstitut für Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsycho-therapie an der Uniklinik Köln (AKiP Köln) (n = 75), Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosoma-tik und Psychotherapie des Kinder- und Jugendalters an der Uniklinik Köln (n = 75) and three further outpatient clinics with n = 50 each. Currently, the child and adolescent psychiatric clinics in Aachen, Essen, Göttingen and Berlin are being contacted. Patient recruitment is planned until approximately 50 patients per center are reached.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: The indication for a telemedical offer is the subject of the study. Contraindications will include: acute emergency situation (e.g. acute self-/external danger, acute psychotic symptoms), mental retardation, lack of German language skills, acute physical symptoms that directly require somatic diagnostics or treatment. The consent of the patients* and parents for participation in the study (possibly telemedical care) is also a subject of the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
The primary objective is the degree to which objectives are achieved in relation to the individual care objectives in each session. This is assessed in a newly developed procedure, the Supply Target Achievement List (VeZiel)

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
In addition, the following should also be collected - Indication: Percentage of patients for whom an initial indication for a telemedical offer can be made according to the expert's assessment. - Acceptance: Number of patients who accept a telemedical care offer. - Satisfaction is judged on the basis a specific satisfaction questionnaire for the telemedical supply offer and/or the supply offer with direct contact of patient inside (starting from 11 J.), parents and servicers inside. - Side effects: Undesirable effects of the accomplished telemedical intervention are judged and seized on the part of the outpatient care Provider. - Extent of pandemic-specific burden: On the basis of a specific questionnaire on corona burden, the parental judgement and self judgement from the age of 11 years are used to determine the extent to which pandemic-specific burdens are present in the patient and his/her family. - Emotional and behavioral problems of the patient are recorded by means of questionnaires in the parental judgment and self-judgment from 11 years of age. - The patient's psychosocial functional level is recorded in the clinical judgment, parent's judgment and self-judgment from the age of 11.

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactCarolina Habbel

Ausbildungsinstitut für Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie an der Uniklinik Köln (AKiP Köln)

carolina.habbel@uk-koeln.de022147876766

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 6, 2026