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

• Conditions: F00-F99; F32; Mental and behavioural disorders; Depressive episode

• Registration Number: DRKS00023525
• Lead Sponsor: Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters an der Uniklinik Köln

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-11-10
• Study Completion: 2021-03-31
• Results First Posted: 2024-06-05
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 267

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

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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)