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Table.1 Overview study design modules

From: Evaluation of a flexible and integrative psychiatric care model in a department of child and adolescent psychiatry in Tübingen, Germany: study protocol (EVA_TIBAS)

Module

design

Intervention Group

Control group

time frame

data

outcomes

A

Cohort study, retrolective

Patients treated between Jan 2018 and Dec 2021 in the KJP of the UKT and insured with the SHI fund AOK Baden-Württemberg; n = ca. 600

Matched patients from up to 10 control hospitals treated between Jan 2018 and Dec 2021

Two years before and one to four years after reference date

Anonymized data from SHI fund AOK Baden-Württemberg

Duration of inpatient and day care psychiatric treatment, inpatient and day care psychiatric length of stay, outpatient psychiatric treatment in hospital, inpatient hospital readmission, emergency admission rate, direct medical care costs, and cost-effectiveness

B

Cohort study, prospective

Patients of the KJP of the UKT, insured with the SHI funds AOK Baden-Württemberg or SVLFG and treated within 18-month recruitment phase starting autumn 2021 (baseline); n = ca. 300

Patients from two structurally comparable hospitals (control hospitals) treated within 18-month recruitment phase starting autumn 2021

Baseline starting autumn 2021 and follow-up with 24 months after recruitment

patient-reported quantitative data

Health-related quality of life, symptom burden, return to psychosocial relationships, treatment satisfaction, societal costs, and cost-effectiveness

C

Cross-sectional

C1

Semi-structured Interviews

Families of patients being treated in the KJP of the UKT, insured with the SHI fund AOK Baden-Württemberg and treated within 18-month recruitment phase starting autumn 2021 and with social service recommendation; n = ca. 30

NA

Between autumn 2021 and spring 2023

Personal telephone interviews

Offer and effects of social service, benefit from social service

C2

Focus group

UKT & social service personnel

NA

Spring 2022

Focus group discussion

Cooperation between UKT and social service employees

  1. KJP Department of child and adolescent psychiatry, UKT University Hospital Tübingen, SHI Statutory health insurance, reference date First treatment in either intervention or control hospitals between 01 January 2018 and 31 December 2021, n Anticipated number of study participants in each module; NA Not applicable