Publications by authors named "Franziska Seyboth"
Objectives: To describe patients' subjective perspectives on hospitalization at time of admission, to prospectively investigate patients' views on changes actually achieved after discharge, and to identify predictors of subjective changes 3 months after hospitalization.
Methods: We conducted a 3-month follow-up cohort study using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Consecutive adult inpatients of an internal medicine ward and a ward integrating internal and psychosomatic medicine were included.
[Outcome of simultaneous psychosomatic/internal-medicine inpatient care--a naturalistic follow-up study].
Z Psychosom Med Psychother
December 2009
Objectives: The effectiveness of simultaneous psychosomatic and internal-medicine inpatient care has not yet been satisfyingly investigated. What outcome is found in patients treated in a psychosomatic/internal medicine setting? Can we predict a reduction in depression and symptom severity?
Methods: The study design is prospective and naturalistic. Patients from a psychosomatic/internal-medicine setting and a solely internal-medicine ward filled in self-report questionnaires on the day of admission, five days thereafter, and three months after discharge.
Objective: The aims of this study were to characterize patient-physician agreement on various psychological and somatic symptoms in internal medicine inpatients and to identify predictors of symptom severity underestimation by physicians.
Methods: Consecutive adult inpatients of two internal medicine wards of a university hospital completed visual analogue scales (VASs) for severity of disability, anxiety, depression, somatic symptoms, and pain at the time of admission (n=639, participation rate=70%) and 5 days thereafter (n=401, participation rate=82%). In addition, the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) depression scale and the Clinical Global Impression Scale--Revised were used.