THE IMPLEMENTATION AND USE OF VIDEO CONSULTATIONS IN DEPRESSION DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT TELEMEDICINE MODEL IN THE AREA OF PSYCHIATRY
Independent Public Health Care Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in Szczecin ·Poland
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif">The objective of the project is to improve the prevention and mitigate health inequalities by implementing a telemedicine model in the area of psychiatry. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif">The project will allow the pilot implementation and testing of a telemedicine model in the area of psychiatry. The project will ensure psychiatric support in the form of video consultations and remote advice of physicians for patients affected with depression and other mental diseases whose considerable proliferation is related to impoverishment, job loss, a decline in the quality of family and social relationships and contacts, the feeling of being unable to affect one’s life and life choices, lack of opportunities to pursue one’s former activities, passions and long-term goals, and SARS-CoV-2 quarantine or treatment. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">The project is addressed to people who ask to have their mental condition examined and wish to know whether their reaction to current circumstances is a disease or just a defensive mechanism. The project is addressed to both teenagers and adults in need of support. The target group to which the project is addressed are mentally disrupted people in need of widely understood support who have not yet undergone treatment or interrupted it due to lack of accessibility. This includes both people of working age and professionally passive people. The target group includes mainly beneficiaries who lack adequate accessibility to potentially or actually obtain specialist medical advice in the area of psychiatry and to receive the support they require, especially those residing in excluded areas. For this reason, a particularly important group of final project beneficiaries are patients from excluded areas who so far have not taken advantage of psychiatric care due to difficult access to psychiatrists and the related travel costs. A</span></span></span></span></span></span>nother target group is m<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">edical staff that gains knowledge and experience concerning the use of telemedicine methods to improve the access of patients to psychiatric care.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The VCS foreign partner actively participated in the project by supporting the Partnership with knowledge and experience through participation in weekly network meetings, reviewing documents produced as part of the project, and providing expert and content-related support for implemented activities. In addition, the Norwegian Partner organised an online international webinar to discuss the Project results and lessons learned, and then produced a report on the creation of a Virtual Mental Health Care Centre (VMHC) in Poland
Project partners
- Value Creation Services AS (VCS) Donor project partner· Norway
- ARNICA Olszewski and Partner Project partner· Poland
- Family Clinicin Staszów Limited Liability Company Project partner· Poland
- The e-Polska+ association in Warsaw Project partner· Poland