About the Authors

Marie Dorow

Marie.Dorow@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Margrit Löbner

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Janine Stein

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Alexander Pabst

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Alexander Konnopka

Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hans J. Meisel

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannstrost, Halle (Saale), Germany

Lutz Günther

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH, Leipzig, Germany

Jürgen Meixensberger

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Katarina Stengler

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Hans-Helmut König

Affiliation Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD ML SRH. Performed the experiments: MD ML SRH. Analyzed the data: MD ML JS AP SRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HHK. Wrote the paper: ML JS AP AK HJM LG JM KS HHK SRH. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual Content: MD ML JS AP AK HJM LG JM KS HHK SRH.