Grant-Funded Projects on Covid and Post-Covid

egePan Unimed

The egePan Unimed sub-project was launched in October 2020 under the leadership of the two lead university hospitals in Dresden and Frankfurt with the aim of developing care structures for pandemic management along a prototypical care pathway in university medicine. This involved an iterative process to research structures and measures in order to derive evidence-based recommendations for pandemic management. A total of 26 university hospitals from Germany were involved.

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Local project management: Prof. Dr. S. Unterecker, M.Sc. P. Wessels
Project duration: 01.09.20-31.12.21

(source: Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus)

The Centre for Mental Health was involved in WP3.1 Resource management - employee health, which had the overarching aim of providing best-practice blueprints to maintain employees' ability to work in the event of a pandemic and to ensure an adequate number of employees in care through

• Situation-adapted inpatient and outpatient protection and hygiene concepts
• Concepts for employee communication
• Prevention, identification of risk factors, tools for monitoring and interventions in the event of mental stress
• Concepts for staff recruitment and -training

Further information can be found here: 

Final Report

Publications with UKW-ZEP co-autorship

Wiegand, H. F., Bröcker, A.-L., Fehr, M., Lohmann, N., Maicher, B., Röthke, N., Rueb, M., Wessels, P., de Greck, M., Pfennig, A., Unterecker, S., Tüscher, O., Walter, H., Falkai, P., Lieb, K., Hölzel, L. P., & Adorjan, K. (2022). Changes and Challenges in Inpatient Mental Health Care During the First Two High Incidence Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany – Results From the COVID Ψ Psychiatry Survey [Original Research]. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.855040

Petersen, J., Mülder, L. M., Kegel, P., Röthke, N., Wiegand, H. F., Lieb, K., Walter, H., Bröcker, A.-L., Liebe, S., Tüscher, O., Pfennig, A., Maicher, B., Hellwig, S., Padberg, F., Adorjan, K., Unterecker, S., Wessels, P., Rose, D.-M., & Beutel, M. E. (2022). Impfbereitschaft von Krankenhauspersonal in Deutschland: Welche Rolle spielen Verschwörungsannahmen zu COVID-19? Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 65(11), 1178-1187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-022-03593-0

Wiegand, H. F., Maicher, B., Rueb, M., Wessels, P., Besteher, B., Hellwig, S., Pfennig, A., Rohner, H., Unterecker, S., Hölzel, L. P., Philipsen, A., Domschke, K., Falkai, P., Lieb, K., & Adorjan, K. (2022). COVID-19 vaccination rates in hospitalized mentally ill patients compared to the general population in Germany: Results from the COVID Ψ Vac study. European Psychiatry, 65(1), e41, Article e41. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.33

Petersen, J., Mülder, L. M., Kegel, P., Röthke, N., Wiegand, H. F., Lieb, K., Walter, H., Bröcker, A.-L., Liebe, S., Tüscher, O., Pfennig, A., Maicher, B., Hellwig, S., Padberg, F., Adorjan, K., Unterecker, S., Wessels, P., Rose, D.-M., & Beutel, M. E. (2022). Willingness to get vaccinated among hospital staff in Germany: What is the role of COVID-19 conspiracy assumptions?. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 65(11), 1178-1187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-022-03593-0