Publications by authors named "B Vieten"
Background: Despite marked costs and limited evidence regarding effectiveness, occupational therapy (OT) is widely applied in psychiatric settings and financed by health insurance companies in European countries. This pilot study investigated the antidepressive effects of adjuvant OT for patients with major depression in a 6-week inpatient setting, stratified for females and males.
Methods: A total of 114 inpatients with major depression were assigned to either a standard OT group (using basic handcraft) or an active control group that played board games (2 h daily, 5 days a week).
Background: Despite of the undisputed impact of education quality on becoming a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapist, systematic studies in this field do not exist in Germany, apart from the evaluation of practical education by the medical councils.
Materials And Methods: The Akademie-OWL, an education union of psychiatric clinics in the East Westphalia region of Germany, has provided 12-item questionnaire-based routine evaluations of theoretical education seminars since 2009. Seminars are held by consultants of psychiatry and psychotherapy within six separate weeks over a period of four years.
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate associations of patient's scores in the newly constructed questionnaire on patients' psychiatric admission experiences (QAE-P) and individual, institutional, and situational factors.
Patients And Methods: Data of 708 patients and 6 participating hospitals were analyzed. Patient characteristics between clinics were compared and univariate as well as multivariate analyses were applied to examine associations of QAE-P total score and individual as well as institutional variables (t tests, univariate and multivariate analyses of variance, correlation analyses, and effect sizes of significant associations).
Background: The aim of the present study was to develop a questionnaire to assess the perception and evaluation of admission to a psychiatric hospital from a patient's perspective (QAE-P).
Material And Methods: Based on existing literature and a preparatory pilot study, a questionnaire consisting of 126 items was developed, and 708 inpatients based in 6 psychiatry and psychotherapy clinics were asked to answer the items. The resulting data were split into two data sets.