About the Authors

Miriam Wilhelm

Miriam.Wilhelm@olgahospital-stuttgart.de

Affiliation Pediatrics 5 (Oncology, Hematology, Immunology; Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, General Pediatrics), Klinikum Stuttgart - Olgahospital, Stuttgart, Germany

Edgar Dahl

Affiliation Institute for the Ethics of Medicine, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Henry Alexander

Affiliation Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Elmar Brähler

Affiliation Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Yve Stöbel-Richter

Affiliation Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Literature analysis: MW ED YS-R. Literature discussion: MW YS-R HA EB. Conceived and designed the experiments: MW ED HA EB YS-R. Performed the experiments: MW. Analyzed the data: MW YS-R. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW ED HA EB YS-R. Wrote the paper: MW ED HA EB YSR.