Buxton, Alice E.
Remmers, Carina
Unger, Hans-Peter
Plinz, Nicole
Michalak, Johannes
Article History
First Online: 28 September 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: AB, HU and NP declare a potential conflict of interest as employees of ASKLEPIOS Kliniken Hamburg GmbH of which the funding company, ASKLEPIOS proresearch, is a subsidiary company. HU is the Chief Medical Officer and Head of the Department of Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, ASKLEPIOS Klinikum Hamburg-Harburg. NP is the team leader in the day hospital. CR declares that she has no conflicts of interest. JM is the Director of the Achtsamkeitsinstitut Ruhr (an institute offering mindfulness training) and Principal Investigator on several DFG (German Science Foundation) research projects. He also receives royalties as the author of mindfulness books.
: The ethics committee of the University of Hildesheim approved the study and we obtained research governance approval from the local primary care health board, Ă„rztekammer Hamburg. All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All participants attended an information session and were given a written description of the procedure and content of the study as well as an estimation of time and effort required prior to participation. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.