The somatic care of patients with mental comorbidity

Recruiting

Conditions: I20-I25
I60
I10-I15
E00-E07
E11
E66
I61
I62
I63
I64

Registration Number: DRKS00030513

Lead Sponsor: VR-Institut für Forschung und Bildung

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 1044045

Inclusion Criteria

AP 1: Presence of one of the following somatic diseases: ICD-10-GM E01-E07 (thyroid diseases), E11 (diabetes mellitus type 2), E66 (obesity), I10-I15 (chronic ischemic heart disease), I20-I25 (arterial hypertension), I60-I64 (stroke), C50 (breast cancer);

AP 2 and 4: Presence of one of the somatic disease and concurrent comorbidity of a mental disease;

AP 3 and 5: General practitioners and established specialist physicians of internal medicine, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine in North Rhine-Westphalia

Minimum age: 18 years.
Survey period: 2016-2019 (AP1); 2020-2022 (AP2-AP5)

Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

Study Type: observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The somatic health care of patients with mental comorbidity is quantitatively and qualitatively worse than the somatic care of patients without mental comorbidity. The somatic health care of patients with mental comorbidity is influenced by patient-related factors (e.g. mental disorder) and/or physician-related factors.<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Mental and somatic multimorbidity is a barrier in the somatic health care of patients with mental illness.<br>2. Certain mental health diagnoses, such as schizophrenia, are more likely to be a barrier to somatic health care for people with mental illness than other mental health diagnoses.<br>3. Transitional barriers at the interfaces between the inpatient and outpatient health care sectors in the somatic and psychiatric-psychotherapeutic fields represent a barrier in health care.<br>4. Good health literacy of patients with mental comorbidity can be beneficial for the somatic health care.<br>5. Good social integration of patients with mental comorbidity has a positive influence on somatic health care.<br>6. Characteristics of the treating physicians (professional experience, prejudices) can have an influence on the somatic health care of patients with mental and somatic comorbidity.<br><br>