Engels, Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-9994
König, Hans-Helmut
Magaard, Julia Luise
Härter, Martin
Hawighorst-Knapstein, Sabine
Chaudhuri, Ariane
Brettschneider, Christian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovationsfond (01VSF16001)
Article History
Received: 2 April 2020
Accepted: 3 December 2020
First Online: 14 December 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This analysis was conducted in the context of a trial registered with the DRKS (German Clinical Trials Register) with the identifier DRKS00013114. All participants who participated in the affiliated trial provide written informed consent. The Ethics Committee of the Medical Chamber of Hamburg has approved this study on the 22nd of September 2017 (reference number: PV5621). For this analysis, we only assessed fully pseudonymized claims data of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Baden-Württemberg (AOK BW). The AOK BW did not provide the corresponding key for de-pseudonymization. Thus, from the perspective of the evaluators the data was for all intends and purposes anonymized. In order to obtain access to the dataset, we requested the permission for these research questions and concluded a contract with the statutory health insurance AOK BW regarding data access. The study was approved by the data protection officer both at the AOK BW and our research institute. The received license permits the use of the data for the purpose of the research proposal within our company, exclusively. Additional informations are provided under the “Availability of data and materials” section.
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: AE, HHK and CB declare that they have no conflicts of interest.MH is a licensed psychotherapist and JLM is in the process of training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.AC and SH-K are employed by the AOK BW. The AOK BW and contractual partners are responsible for the development of contents of the selective care contracts. The AOK BW did not participate in the analysis or interpretation of data.