Zwerenz, Rüdiger
Böhme, Katja
Wirth, Astrid
Labitzke, Nicole
Pachtchenko, Sergei
Beutel, Manfred E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund [German Statutory Pension Insurance Scheme] (0423/40-64-50-50)
Article History
Received: 27 April 2017
Accepted: 14 March 2018
First Online: 2 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal State of Rhineland Palatinate (Approval Number: 837.175.16[10494]). All participants will have to give written informed consent to take part in the study. Personal information will be stored in the rehabilitation clinic and will not be accessible to the study centre. For statistical analyses only anonymised data will be passed on to the study centre from the rehabilitation clinic. As participants log in on the SSL-encrypted (secure sockets layer) web application (located on a firewall-protected web server) using pseudonyms and no personal data are stored on the web server, data privacy and data security are ensured.
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