[Evaluation of psychosomatic treatment--results of a catamnestic study]

The authors report first results of a program evaluation (n = 560) in a psychoanalytically oriented psychosomatic clinic. Based on a naturalistic design, the study includes three points of measurement (beginning and end of treatment, 1-year follow-up) at which data were collected from patients and therapists. The article gives an overview of the general issues involved as well as of the methodological procedure and presents some catamnestic subjective and cost-relevant singular outcome criteria.