Abstract
The German Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGPPN) has committed itself to establish a prospective national cohort of patients with major psychiatric disorders, the so-called DGPPN-Cohort. This project will enable the scientific exploitation of high-quality data and biomaterial from psychiatric patients for research. It will be set up using harmonised data sets and procedures for sample generation and guided by transparent rules for data access and data sharing regarding the central research database. While the main focus lies on biological research, it will be open to all kinds of scientific investigations, including epidemiological, clinical or health-service research.
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This work is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) via the Clinical Research Group 241 “Genotype–phenotype relationships and neurobiology of the longitudinal course of psychosis” (http://www.kfo241.de; grant number SCHU 1603/5-1).
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Anderson-Schmidt, H., Adler, L., Aly, C. et al. The “DGPPN-Cohort”: a national collaboration initiative by the German Association for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGPPN) for establishing a large-scale cohort of psychiatric patients. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 263, 695–701 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-013-0401-8
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