Persons with mental illness and psychiatric treatment experience, relatives/close ones of persons with mental illness and psychiatric treatment experience, clinical professionals
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Subproject 1: retrospective analysis of secondary data
analysis of routinely collected clinical patient data from the statististical data bank of the LVR Clinical Group Department.
Subprojec 2: prospective cross-sectional study
qualitative interviews and quantitative online surveys with persons with mental illness and psychiatric treatment experience, relatives/close ones of persons with mental illness and psychiatric treatm
Sponsors
LVR-Institut für Forschung und Bildung, Sparte Forschung
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Subproject 1 (Routine data analyses): For the analyses, all cases of patients from the LVR Clinical Group Department with a discharge date between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2024, will initially be used. Over the course of the project, the analysis period will be expanded to ensure greater timeliness, so that (exclusively retrospective) data from the years 2025, 2026, 2027, and 2028 can also be used successively. Subproject 2 (Surveys): 1. Minimum age of 18; 2. Presence of a (chronic) mental illness and current or past psychiatric-psychotherapeutic treatment, or the presence of such a person in the respondent’s immediate, close personal circle, or professional activity in psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care; 3. Sufficient German language skills to understand and answer the interview questions or the questionnaire.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Subproject 1: None; this is a census study. Subproject 2: 1. Acute risk to self or others that precludes participation in the study. 2. Severe cognitive impairment or delirium that makes informed consent impossible.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Subproject 1.1: Technical implementation of an NLP (Natural Language Processing) pipeline for the automated extraction of patient-related diversity variables from free-form clinical text documents (e.g., admission reports, case histories, and discharge summaries). Subproject 1.2: Conducting statistical analyses for hypotheses regarding gender- and diversity-specific care, which will be specified in accordance with the sequential mixed-methods design based on the qualitative results and with the involvement of the participatory project control group; conducting exploratory statistical analyses on diversity-specific care. Subproject 2.1: Development and testing of an interview guide based on six initial formative interviews (with two persons with mental illness and psychiatric treatment experience, two relatives/close ones of persons with mental illness and psychiatric treatment experience, and two clinical professionals); subsequent conduct of 25 semi-structured, guideline-based qualitative interviews to identify experiences and suggestions for improvement regarding diversity factors in psychiatric inpatient care; inductive-deductive analysis. Subproject 2.2: Further detailed development of the survey questionnaires based on the recommendations of the project control group as well as the results of the routine data analyses (Subproject 1) and the qualitative analyses (Subproject 2.1); quantitative analysis of attitudes, knowledge, and perceptions of treatment regarding diversity-specific aspects of care among persons with mental illness and psychiatric treatment experience, their relatives/close ones, and clinical professionals. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactSönke Johann Peters
LVR-Institut für Forschung und Bildung, Sparte Forschung
Outcome results
None listed