About the Authors

Esther Stroe-Kunold

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Christoph Friederich

Affiliations Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LVR-Clinics, University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Tatjana Stadnitski

Affiliation Department of Psychological Methods and Statistics, University Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Daniela Wesche

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Wolfgang Herzog

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael Schwab

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Beate Wild

beate.wild@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BW HCF WH MS. Performed the experiments: DW ESK. Analyzed the data: ESK TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: ESK BW TS.