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Complex Interventions in Mental Health
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurses (PMHN) employ a large variety of psychosocial interventions to
enhance the mental health and well-being of individuals with mental health issues. This variety include psychotherapeutic interventions and measures to support the recovery process of patients
and their related persons. Similarly to other sectors within the healthcare system, numerous interventions in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing are considered complex. “Complex Interventions” comprise various components with potential interactions, leading to a spectrum of
possible and variable outcomes when applied to the target population.
As practitioners and scientists, we ponder upon the effective, efficient and, above all, sustainable implementation of scientific findings. This will serve as the central theme of our congress. However, we also warmly welcome contributions on any other topic related to psychiatric care, both within and beyond Europe.
Contributions under the overarching main theme of ‘Complex Interventions’ may be associated with
one of the following sub-themes:
- Developing complex interventions: The development of new interventions, such as the utilisation of digital media in psychiatric care, is complex and requires not only developmental phases but also insights and opportunities for testing and evaluation.
- Implementing complex interventions: Successfully implementing complex methods usually requires a cross-professional and cross-hierarchical strategy. It is often challenging to sustain a complex intervention after successful implementation.
- Evaluating complex interventions: Complex interventions can be evaluated with various objectives and methods. Qualitative as well as quantitative research approaches can be goal-oriented.
- Collaboration and coproduction in complex interventions: Collaboration with service users, nursing colleagues, family members, other disciplines, community services pp. is pivotal in complex interventions.
Contributions can be made in four different formats:
1. Concurrent session – 20 minutes in length (including 5 minutes for questions)
2. Symposium – 1 hour in length containing 2-3 papers on the same topic (including 15 minutes for questions).
3. Workshop – 1 hour in length (including a collective examination of the topic and open discussions)
4. Poster – on the congress theme, topical developments, research and/or local issues of wider interest. Posters are presented digital.
In order to make an active contribution to the congress, you must submit an abstract, which should be structured as follows:
• Background
• Aim
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• learning outcomes (Workshops only)
Please note: Abstracts for concurrent presentations, presentations submitted to symposia, workshops and posters should not exceed 2,500 characters including blanks (excluding references and bibliography). For symposia, separate abstracts must be submitted for all individual contributions (min. 2, max. 3). Please make sure that the title of the symposium for which you are submitting your abstract is stated and that the individual presentations of the symposium are labelled with separate headings and that the other speakers of your symposium are named. The number of workshops and symposia is limited.
Closing date for abstract submission is the 30th of November 2024. Your submission will be reviewed by the scientific committee of the congress and you can expect to be notified of their decision before 31st of December 2024. Within 2 weeks after notification you have to register to ensure inclusion of your presentation in the final program. Please make sure, that in symposia all 2-3 responsible presenters have to register individually for the congress. Please also note the payment deadlines after registration. Registration and full payment of the congress fee is a prerequisite for the presentation. This also applies to poster presentations.
Please note that we can only grant the first presenter of a contribution the discounted participant price (early bird price). As a rule, this is the person who submitted the abstract. Co-authors pay the regular registration fee if they have not already registered within the early bird rate period.
For symposia, all active presenters (max. 3) receive a reduced registration fee. In case you have any further questions about the abstract process, please do not hesitate to contact us at abstract-horatio25@dfpp.de
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
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