Roigk, Patrick http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2686-1485
Becker, Clemens
Schulz, Claudia
König, Hans-Helmut
Rapp, Kilian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01EL1405A / 01EL1405B)
Article History
Received: 25 April 2018
Accepted: 19 September 2018
First Online: 1 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All analyses of previously published studies were approved by the ethics committees of the medical faculties of the Universities of Tübingen, Ulm and Hamburg. The participation in the BF2P2 was voluntary for each LTCF. All LTCFs which agreed to participate in the BF2P2 where informed by written information about the program and that the data will be used for scientific purposes. The follow-up evaluation used anonymous claims-data from the health insurance company (2005–2013), data from web based questionnaire (2015) and data from the observation of the exercise classes (2016). Participation in the observation and the web based questionnaire was voluntary. No personal data were collected. Participants were informed by written information that the data will be used for scientific purposes. The follow-up evaluation was approved by the clinical ethics committee of the University of Tubingen (proposal: 516/2015BO2).
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