About the Authors

Ubiratan C. Adler

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stephanie Krüger

Affiliation Teaching Hospital of the Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Head Center for Women’s Mental Health, Vivantes Humboldt Klinik, Berlin, Germany

Michael Teut

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Rainer Lüdtke

Affiliation Karl and Veronica Carstens Foundation, Essen, Germany

Lena Schützler

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Friederike Martins

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stefan N. Willich

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Klaus Linde

Affiliation Institute of General Practice, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Claudia M. Witt

claudia.witt@charite.de

Affiliations Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMW KL MT RL SK SNW UCA. Analyzed the data: RL. Wrote the paper: UCA CMW. Treated the patients: UCA. Involved in data acquisition and trial management: LS FM. Interpretation of results/substantial scientific contribution/revising manuscript: CMW FM KL MT LS SK RL SNW UCA.