Projects

Research and Teaching Unit Medical Psychology focuses on the psychosocial conditions of the development, course and treatment of chronic diseases. The focus here is on disease burden and coping as well as adherence, e.g. in type 1 and type 2 diabetes, obesity, TX and rare diseases of childhood and adolescence.

There is close cooperation with the pediatric clinic, the children's hospital AUF DER BULT Hannover and various pediatric clinics throughout Germany and internationally. Several multi-centre, national and international projects deal with the psychological aspects of new treatment technologies as well as the development and evaluation of corresponding patient training programs and training for physicians and diabetes consultants.

In cooperation with the Diabetes Center at the Children's Hospital AUF DER BULT, empirical studies are being conducted worldwide on the care situation and treatment quality of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. The international SWEET project aims to define evidence-based standards for qualified pediatric diabetes care and to establish reference centers.

In cooperation with the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Institute for Diabetes Research, psychological stress on families is evaluated through population-wide screenings for the prediction and prevention of autoimmune diabetes in children and adolescents(www.GPPAD.org). Structured psychosocial counseling and patient training for children and adolescents with less common and rare diseases as well as their parents and siblings are being developed, evaluated and implemented nationwide in the Care-Fam-Net project of the G-BA's Innovation Fund and in the ModuS project.

Concepts to support the transition of chronically ill young people into adult medicine and eHealth services for patients and their families are also currently being developed.

On the other hand, the psychological promotion of guideline compliance for the prevention of nosocomial infections is being researched. As a follow-up to the cluster-randomized controlled studies PSYGIENE (DRKS00010960) and WACH (DRKS00015502), the IP-POWER project in cooperation with the Institute of Hygiene, Hospital Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at Leipzig University Hospital - AöR is investigating ways of empowering members of hygiene teams.

The focus is on communicative and social skills for cooperation with and leadership of clinically active employees to promote compliance with infection prevention guidelines. The project is funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation.

In the "Preparedness and Pandemic Response in Germany (PREPARED)" project of the University Medicine Network (NUM), Medical Psychology is part of the "Personnel Management" work package and, in cooperation with the "Surveillance, Infection Prevention and Control" work package, is researching best practice concepts to ensure that hospitals remain capable of acting in pandemic situations and interpandemic phases in research, teaching and patient care.

 

You can find an overview of our projects on the following pages - where you can find more detailed information:

DIABETES

PATIENT TRAINING

RARE DISEASES

NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS

OTHER PROJECTS