Subproject 2: Survey of general practitioners and outpatient paediatricians

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed major challenges to the health system. Due to the continuation of the pandemic and the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, it is to be expected that more and more people will become infected and that the number of patients with long-term health consequences (long COVID) will also increase. General practitioners and paediatricians working in outpatient settings are the primary contact persons for the care of people with long COVID.

In an anonymous online survey, GPs’ outpatient paediatricians’ information and support needs for providing long COVID care are investigated. The objective of this study is to gain first-hand knowledge from general practitioners’ and paediatricians’ offices about how often they see patients with long COVID, which challenges they experience in treating those patients, which information sources they rely on for their work and, more specifically, which information and support needs in working with long COVID patients are yet unmet.

The results of the survey will help to design information services that are tailored to their needs. Through cooperation with various responsible parties in the health system, e.g. from health policy and self-governing organisations, approaches to solutions are to be expanded.

The nationwide survey is being conducted by the Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in cooperation with the RKI and the Clinic and Polyclinic of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Dresden. It is supported by the following organisations:

• National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV)
• German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM)
• German Society of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ)
• German Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (DGPI)
• Association of Professional Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (BVKJ)

Project leader Subproject 2: Lorena Dini, Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Subproject team:

Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Salma Mekkes

Robert Koch Institute
John Gubernath
Christina Leuker
Giselle Sarganas
Pauline Zahn

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