Scientific background and study concept
There is currently a gap in care for patients suffering from mental impairment after a serious illness with intensive care treatment. Only a few patients with this mental burden are correctly diagnosed with a trauma sequelae disorder and professionally treated. The majority of those affected do not receive professional help and are often impaired in their everyday lives. By involving general practitioners, the PICTURE study aims to improve the care situation of these patients.
Improved care
The family doctor often accompanies his patients for years and knows their concerns. Through a targeted examination of psychological distress, the need for treatment is identified by the doctor and planned along therapy recommendations. Trauma therapeutic brief intervention (NET) can improve treatment at the GP.
Pathways to study participation:
Patients can find their way to our study through different channels. Either affected patients report directly to our study team or are accompanied by our study nurses after a stay in the intensive care unit and, if psychological stress exists, are examined more closely after 3 months.
But also general practitioners who have among their patients those with psychological stress as a result of intensive care treatment and who want to accompany and treat them more competently can contact us. By providing structured and compact information, we support you in planning and implementing treatment as well as in participating in the scientific study.
Scientific study
PICTURE is an independent clinical study funded by the German Research Foundation.
Study centres: LMU Klinikum Munich, Charité Berlin
Patients and general practitioners can be reached and included throughout Germany.
Long-term therapeutic effects of the treatment will be observed and tested.
