*Institute of Psychology
†Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
¶Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg
∥Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
‡Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel
§Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
All participants provided written and informed consent. The study was approved by the Ethics Research Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg (S-635/2016), and was carried out in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration.
S.B., R.S., A.G., J.C.E., D.B., W.E., and J.T.: conceived and designed the study. S.B. and R.S.: obtained funding. S.B., A.G., and J.T.: collected the data. S.B.: statistically analyzed and all authors interpreted the data. S.B.: drafted the manuscript. All authors critically revised the manuscript and provided important intellectual content. All authors approved the final version of the article, including the authorship list. S.B. is acting as the submission’s guarantor.
Supported by the Köhler-Stiftung (grant number: S0112/10209/16). They had no role in the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
J.C.E. is one of the original developers of the OPD-SQ and ECR-RD.
The remaining authors declare that they have nothing to disclose.
Address correspondence to: Sabrina Berens, MSc-Psych, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany (e-mail: [email protected]).
