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Article History

Received: 7 October 2020

Accepted: 1 December 2020

First Online: 6 January 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany (committee’s reference number: FSV 18/08). All participants receive information leaflets and give written informed consent. Approval for the informed consent materials was received by the ethics committee.Data security officers of the participating long-term care insurances (AOK Bavaria, AOK Baden-Württemberg), the University of Jena, and the Robert-Bosch-Hospital as well as the two ministries for social affairs of the two involved states agreed to the data management and security protocol as well as to the participant information and consent form.All protocol modifications are communicated with the ethics committee, auditor, and trial registry. Modifications in the data management and security protocol are also communicated with the involved institutions.

: All authors declare: no support from any organisation for the submitted work, other than funding arrangements for the trial described in body of the text; no financial relationships with any organisations or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. AB is employed at the health and long-term care insurance AOK Bayern (AOK Bavaria) and temporary funded by the trial budget. Financial activities outside the submitted work: KP and GW has received fees (2018–2020) for the development of an online coach for family caregivers of the AOK Bundesverband (Federal Association of Local Health Insurance Funds). KP has also received fees for care counsellor trainings by long-term care insurances not involved in this study, care centres (“Pflegestützpunkte”), and other organisations.