Collaborative project of the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Universitätsklinik Leipzig and the Diako Flensburg, Germany. Funded by the Innovation Fund of the Federal Joint Committee of the German Health Care System.
SKKIPPI will evaluate the integrated psychological and psychiatric care of parents and their infants in the first year of life. It will first contact randomly selected parents form the local registration office and screen them for possible mental health disorders, psychosocial problems, health care and parenting needs in the postnatal period. Subsequently, an intervention study will investigate the effectiveness of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy among mothers with postnatal psychiatric disorders and infants with regulation and attachment disorders.
The study was performed in different treatment settings (inpatient, outpatient, home treatment) comparing psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy with care-as-usual over one year. The aim of the intervention was to examine if maternal sensitivity and responsiveness as well as the mother-infant attachment can be improved. An epidemiological study screened and followed-up a representative sample of parents in three different regions in Germany (city of Berlin, city of Leipzig, and Flensburg as a rural area) over 6 months using the M.I.N.I. in telephone interviews. The overall research project ran from 15 May 2018 to 15 November 2022. The enrolment phase has been completed and no further mother-child pairs can be included in the study. The project was funded by the Joint Federal Committee Innovation Fund for Health Services Research in the amount of 2,467,460.00 euros. Publication is ongoing.
