Type of Project: Funded project Model project
Steering with the rehabilitation compass: everybody in the same boat. Interface management for the early detection of psychosomatic rehabilitation needs and timely navigation towards psychosomatic rehabilitation

Aims:
Early detection of (incipient) mental health problems and their management through preventative measures and psychosomatic rehabilitation.

Background:
Oftentimes, people with mental health problems seek or find help quite late in the course of their disease. Thus, otherwise effective preventative measures and medical rehabilitation are not as successful in preserving and restoring social and occupational performance and participation. Accordingly, there is a high need for a low-threshold service which supports people with mental health problems and their environments to detect rehabilitation needs and helps paving the way for preventative measures or medical rehabilitation.

Content:
Relevant social, organisational, and medical structures will be empowered to recognise and address mental health problems in their clients, co-workers, and patients. These will contact a “navigator” who will arrange for them to participate in the “rehabilitation compass”, an instrument to assert prevention/rehabilitation needs and to facilitate the according application process.

Target population:
648 people with (incipient) mental health problems living in Oldenburg or Bremen.

Evaluation:
The innovative measure will be rolled out starting October 2020. A process and outcome evaluation will determine its effectiveness.