Contreras, C.
Hellhammer, Juliane http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-6681
Gerhards, F.
Hellhammer, D. H.
Article History
Received: 16 June 2017
Accepted: 12 September 2018
First Online: 27 October 2018
Conflict of Interests
: JH owns a trade mark protection for Neuropattern in the US and her company provides Neuropattern for clinical trials and patients. CC received a salary from the Stress Center Trier as a study manager during data collection. Data management, data analysis as well as writing the manuscript were part of her dissertation project, conducted externally, not as an employee of the Stress Center Trier. DH applies Neuropattern in his private practice. The authors state that there are no further conflict of interests.
: DH, JH and CC were responsible for conception and design of the RCT. CC drafted the manuscript, CC and FG performed the statistical analyses. FG helped with interpretation of the data. All authors helped writing and reviewing the manuscript and have approved the final article.