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HoPe: Home Treatment with Peer Support for acute mental health crisis- potential, relevance and recommendations in light of the corona pandemic

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. Candelaria Mahlke

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Indirect health impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic posed an immense challenge for the psychiatric care system. Home treatment and peer support / recovery support are alternatives to inpatient psychiatric patient treatment that have not yet been introduced across the board and are rarely combined. They have the potential to meet the specific requirements to ensure psychiatric care during the period of the pandemic, especially for patients with severe mental illness. With an additional questionnaire study, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychiatric care and the experiences and needs of employees and patients are to be examined in order to highlight the potential of home treatment and peer support and make recommendations for to provide patient-centered care during the crisis.