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Bavarian ambulatory Covid-19 monitor (BaCoM)

Giving people in need of care, their caregivers and GPs as well as family caregivers a voice!

Concrete findings and suggestions for improvements in care for the public in Bavaria.

Contact the study team

Phone: 089 4400-53677

E-Mail: allgemeinmedizin.bacom@med.uni-muenchen.de

Take part in the Bavarian outpatient Covid-19 monitor!

...look, listen!

"Bavarian outpatient Covid-19 Monitor" (BaCoM)

The BaCoM study examines the physical and psychological effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on people in need of care, as well as the effects on their caregivers, their caregiving relatives and general practitioners.

After more than a year of the global Covid-19 pandemic, it is clear that people in need of care, their family caregivers and their nursing staff and GPs are particularly affected by the disease itself, but also by the measures adopted. But what can help to provide these citizens in need of care with good physical and emotional care? And what do their nursing staff, family carers and GPs need? The Monitor aims to provide scientifically sound information on this. Over the next three years, the Institute of General Medicine at the LMU Munich will be carrying out studies and surveys.

The aim is to recruit around 1,500 people in need of outpatient/domestic or inpatient care with a care degree in Bavaria who are currently or have been demonstrably ill with Covid-19 in the last 6 months. In addition, 500 people with care needs who are not or have not been proven to have Covid-19 will be included as a control group. Participants are included by the treating GP, as they have both the basic medical and nursing data. In addition, the nursing staff, relatives and GPs who care for those affected are also asked about their own needs during the pandemic.

The aim of the BaCoM study is to contribute to an improved understanding of the physiological, clinical, psychological and social effects of Covid-19 on people in need of care in Bavaria.

The aim of the BaCoM study is to contribute to improving the understanding of the physiological, clinical, psychological and social effects of Covid-19 on people in need of care in Bavaria.

The study objectives are to record...

  • the psycho-social stress and resources of people in need of care
  • the clinical factors of people in need of care
  • the needs of people in need of care
  • the needs of nursing staff, family caregivers and general practitioners

....during the Covid-19 pandemic.

BaCoM is a joint project that combines expertise from general medicine, infectiology, nursing science and sociology at three locations in Munich (LMU and Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich), Erlangen (FAU) and Würzburg (UKW).

The Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care has commissioned the Institute of General Medicine at LMU Munich with the research project "Bavarian Outpatient Covid-19 Monitor" to look and listen: So that the current and future pandemics can be managed well.