Dose, Christina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5405-4934
Goertz-Dorten, Anja
Goletz, Hildegard
Doepfner, Manfred
Article History
First Online: 20 June 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Manfred Doepfner and Anja Goertz-Dorten received royalties from treatment manuals, books and psychological tests published by Guilford, Hogrefe, Enke, Beltz, and Huber, including the Self-Report Rating Scale for Anxiety Disorders and the Parent/Teacher Report Rating Scale for Anxiety Disorders which are evaluated in this paper. The remaining authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The Medical Ethical Committee of the University Hospital of Cologne, Germany, declared that no formal consent is required for this type of retrospective research involving data collected in routine clinical care and analysed anonymously. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All parents declared their consent that data on their child gathered during the time of treatment at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the School for Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (AKiP) at the University Hospital of Cologne, e.g., questionnaire data, may be used for research purposes. Adolescents/young adults who were already of legal age provided this consent themselves.