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Manfred Beutel

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PubMed2004

Deep impact--evaluation in the sciences.

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the impact factor as an assessment procedure. Detailed criteria regarding theoretical underpinnings, test administration, scoring and interpretation are applied. The impact factor appears to be of limited use for deciding which journals to subscribe. It is not suitable for evaluating achievements of individual scientists and research groups. The impact factor contains serious sources of errors and flaws resulting in strong biases against culture- and language-bound medical subspecialties and non-Anglo-American countries. Possible alternatives are discussed.

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PubMed2004

[Funded research in psychosomatic medicine, medical psychology, and psychotherapy].

This paper, summarizing the activities of the research task force of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM), reviews how research in psychosomatic medicine, medical psychology and psychotherapy has been funded by different institutions. The review reveals that psychosocial research has received considerable grants especially by the German Research Council and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research but also from other funding institutions. Besides an overview of potential sources for funding in the psychosocial disciplines, recommendations are formulated that might be helpful for raising research funds in the future.

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PubMed2003

[Chronic diseases, psychological distress and coping -- challenges for psychosocial care in medicine].

Due to the increase of chronic diseases within the last decades the need and demand for psychosocial treatment in medicine has been realized. This review focuses on the psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases and discusses selected topics of medical and rehabilitation psychology. Recent developments in quantitative and qualitative methods have allowed the systematic analysis of psychosocial distress and coping with chronic disease as well as the consequences on social relationships. The need for psychosocial treatment in acute care and rehabilitation can be diagnosed by differential assessment tools for coping and psychiatric morbidity. Specific approaches of psychology and psychotherapy for patients with somatic diseases have been developed and may be regarded as an integrative part of medical treatment in acute care and rehabilitation. In rehabilitation, the traditional individualistic view of psychotherapy has been broadened towards vocational integration and participation in social activities as outcome criteria. Evaluation research as well as the rehabilitation sciences have provided empirical data on psychosocial treatment of chronically ill patients. Under increasing financial restrictions and problems of the health care systems there is a need for quality assurance and the proof of scientific evidence to guarantee psychosocial treatment as an integrated part of medical care in the future.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2003

How to study the 'quality of psychoanalytic treatments' and their long-term effects on patients' well-being: a representative, multi-perspective follow-up study.

How can we study the 'quality of psychoanalytic treatments'? The authors attempt to answer this question by discussing a naturalistic, multi-perspective and representative follow-up study of psychoanalyses and long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapies. We studied a representative sample (n = 401) of all the patients who had terminated their psychoanalytic treatments with members of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) between 1990 and 1993. Between 70 and 80 per cent of the patients achieved (average 6.5 years after the end of treatment) good and stable psychic changes according to the evaluations of the patients themselves, their analysts, independent psychoanalytic and non-psychoanalytic experts, and questionnaires commonly applied in psychotherapy research. The evaluation of mental health costs showed a cost reduction through fewer days of sick leave during the seven years following the end of long-term psychoanalytic treatments. The results achieved using non-psychoanalytical instruments are complemented by the richness of the idiosyncratic findings, gained by the psychoanalytic research instruments.

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