With the signing of the cooperation agreements, the consortium for the PSRT study is in place. The lead institution — the Institute for General Practice at the Medical Faculty of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg — has established the contractual basis for collaboration with the participating rehabilitation facilities and with the Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Informatics (IMEBI) at University Medicine Halle.
Who takes on which role
The agreements set out the division of tasks in the project in binding terms. The two rehabilitation clinics — the “Alte Flugschule” specialist clinic run by the Institut für Gesundheit und Bildung gGmbH in Großrückerswalde in the Erzgebirge, and the Fachklinik Rusteberg in Marth, Thuringia — act as study centres, taking on participant recruitment and the delivery of the training within ongoing rehabilitation. As a methodologically independent institution, IMEBI is responsible for data management and statistical analysis.
This separation of delivery and analysis is not a formality but a mark of quality: whoever analyses the data in the end is not involved in the treatment. This protects the results from unconscious bias and reflects the methodological standard of controlled clinical trials.
A project across state borders
With sites in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia, the study is designed from the outset to be multicentre and to span several federal states. For the Personality-Oriented Self-Regulation Training (PSRT), this means a broader basis: the training is not tested under laboratory conditions at a single site, but in the differing care realities of inpatient addiction rehabilitation. The signed agreements provide the organisational framework for this.