Fetz, Katharina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2391-2243
Vogt, Hendrik
Ostermann, Thomas
Schmitz, Andrea
Schulz-Quach, Christian
Article History
Received: 4 May 2018
Accepted: 19 June 2018
First Online: 7 July 2018
Authors’ information
: KF is a Psychologist, freelancing Consultant for Research Methodology and Statistics, Research Associate and PhD student at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.HV is a resident and research fellow for Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychotherapy and Palliative Medicine at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine at the University Hospital Dusseldorf, Germany.TO is a Professor for Research Methodology and Statistics in Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.AS is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Pain Medicine, and Anaesthesiology. Her special interest is in children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and in applying animal-assisted therapy (AAT) to palliative medicine.CSQ is a Consultant in Psychosomatic Medicine, Medical Psychotherapy, and Palliative Medicine from Germany and is a Visiting Lecturer in Palliative Care Psychiatry at the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College, London. He is a faculty member of the Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care, Toronto, Canada. He is a trainee psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Additionally, he is pursuing a Doctorate of Professional Studies (DProf) in Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapy at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London, UK.
: Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, Germany (trial registry no. 5287; date of approval: 09 November 2015). Data was clinical routine data and anonymised at the point of data acquisition for retrospective analysis. The ethics committee at University Düsseldorf waived the need for individual participant consent. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects.
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