[Effort, Success and Failure while Seeking for Outpatient Psychotherapy - Results of a Prospective Study].

Objective: Patients and general practitioners often report on difficulties in finding a psychotherapist. In this prospective study, we investigate how much effort patients have to invest and how long it takes until they get an appointment with a psychotherapist.

Methods: 69 patients who were recommended to have psychotherapy were followed-up by telephone calls during 3 months.

[Waiting Times For Admission Into A Psychotherapeutic Inpatient Treatment - Results of A Prospective Study In South-Württemberg].

Introduction: Waiting times for the admission into a so called psychosomatic hospital in Germany prevent the necessary immediate treatment. They lead to further incapacity for work and chronic manifestation of the disease. It is reported that most psychosomatic hospitals have waiting times, but there are no studies on data on that.

The INDDEP study: inpatient and day hospital treatment for depression - symptom course and predictors of change.

Background: Depression can be treated in an outpatient, inpatient or day hospital setting. In the German health care system, episodes of inpatient or day hospital treatment are common, but there is a lack of studies evaluating effectiveness in routine care and subgroups of patients with a good or insufficient treatment response. Our study aims at identifying prognostic and prescriptive outcome predictors as well as comparative effectiveness in psychosomatic inpatient and day hospital treatment in depression.

["Who profits?" - patient characteristics as outcome predictors in psychosomatic rehabilitation].

The study was to examine how far treatment success in psychosomatic rehabilitation can be predicted from patients' characteristics. The aim of this study included the development of outcome criteria, the analysis of bivariate correlations, as well as development and examination of multivariate models. The motivation for dealing with job-related problems was evaluated separately.