Endres, Dominique
Tebartz van Elst, Ludger
Maier, Simon J.
Feige, Bernd
Goll, Peter
Meyer, Simon A.
Matthies, Swantje
Domschke, Katharina
Lange, Thomas
Sobanski, Esther
Philipsen, Alexandra
Nickel, Kathrin
Perlov, Evgeniy
Article History
Received: 2 February 2019
Accepted: 30 August 2019
First Online: 29 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval from the local ethics committee was obtained (Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg University, 217/06). The study was registered by Current Controlled Trials (ISRCTN54096201) and was conducted according to the ethical principles of the Helsinki Declaration.
: Not applicable.
: LTvE has served on advisory boards, given lectures, or received travel grants within the last 3 years from Eli Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Shire, UCB, GSK, Servier, Janssen, and Cyberonics. PG received travel grant from GSK, Boston Scientific, Otsuka Pharma, and Actelion. SM received a speaker’s fee and was involved as a study physician in clinical trials conducted by Janssen-Cilag and Lilly from 2007 to 2009. She is currently involved in clinical trials conducted by Janssen and Lundbec. She has been a member of the advisory board of Shire Deutschland and Medice. AP has served on advisory boards, given lectures, performed phase 3 studies, or received travel grants within the last 3 years from Eli Lilly and Co, Janssen-Cilag, MEDICE Arzneimittel Putter GmbH and Co KG, Novartis, and Shire and has authored books and articles on psychotherapy published by Elsevier, Hogrefe, Schattauer, Kohlhammer, Karger, Springer, and Oxford University Press. All other authors, DE, EP, KN, SJM, BF, SAM, KD, TL, ES, declare that they have no competing interests.