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WG Mental Health and Infectious Diseases 

Head: PD Dr. Kristina Adorjan

Researchers: Mike Rüb, research associate; Tarek Jebrini, BSc, student assistant; Moritz Ortmann, student assistant

In cooperation with
Psychotherapy and Social Neuroscience Research Unit
Stephanie Rek, M.Sc. (IMPRS-TP), Michael Strupf, M.Sc., Dr. Matthias Reinhard, M.Sc., Prof. Dr. Frank Padberg

Main Focus:

  • Pandemic management
  • Identification of biomarkers (stress parameters, genetic markers)
  • Risk prediction for mental stress
  • Resource allocation during a pandemic
  • Work-related mental health of health care workers in a pandemic situation
  • Promotion of physical and mental health
  • Risk stratification and optimised patient allocation
  • Individual psychosocial needs during a pandemic
  • Identification of at-risk populations to ensure psychosocial interventions
  • Global perspective (country-specific determinants of mental health)

Fundings: 

  • German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
    Project: "A targeted global online intervention for pandemic-related mental health problems (COPE)" 
    PD Dr. Kristina Adorjan, Munich, PD Dr. David Ebert, Erlangen, Prof. Dr. Gunter Schumann, Berlin  

  • NUM EViPan Unimed:
    Development, testing and implementation of regionally adaptive care structures and processes for evidence-based pandemic management coordinated by the Network University Medicine (NUM, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in cooperation with the university hospitals Charité, Mainz, LMU).

    The different regional courses of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the regionally different care and decision-making structures in a federal system require regionally suitable pandemic management concepts which should, however, be based on a consensual national framework. The aim is therefore to develop an evidence-based system for managing pandemic situations.

    https://www.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de/projekte/evipan

    • DESCOCO (Depression and social cohesion in times of the Covid 19 pandemic): examining the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on mental health in people with depression.
    • PanMAG (Survey on Pandemic Management and Work-Related Health): Overview of the work-related mental health of health professionals at German hospitals.
    • COVID-PSY Institute Survey: Recording and researching the care situation in psychiatric and psychosomatic clinics in Germany during the corona pandemic (funded by the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN)).

    Further NUM cooperation projects:

    • OnCOVID-II-Studie: Participatory decision-making and ethical aspects of risk stratification and pandemic management.
    • NEAR-Corona: My Network, Others and Resilience (NEAR) survey at Corona Times (https://osf.io/3evn9/).

    Further cooperation projects:

    • All-Corona-Care-Studie (ACC): Cross-sectional employee survey of the LMU Hospital (antibody status and mental stress).
    • Care-Corona-Immune-Studie (CCI): Longitudinal employee survey of the LMU Hospital (antibody status, psychological strain and stress factors).
    • CorKUM-Studie: COVID-19 register of the LMU Hospital.
    • Vaccination studies: Process evaluation, identification of biological, genetic, psychological markers for vaccination success.
    • NAPKON Nationale Pandemie Kohorten Netz (BMBF): FOSA Psychische Gesundheit (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Deckert).