About the Authors

Rüdiger Zwerenz

ruediger.zwerenz@unimedizin-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Jan Becker

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Katharina Gerzymisch

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Martin Siepmann

Current address: Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine Bad Neustadt, Rhön-Klinikum AG, Bad Neustadt/Saale, Germany

Affiliation University Medical Center of the Carl Gustav Carus Technical University, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Dresden, Germany

Martin Holme

Affiliation German Statutory Pension Insurance Rehabilitation Center for Orthopedic Diseases, Clinic Weser, Bad Pyrmont, Germany

Ulrich Kiwus

Affiliation German Statutory Pension Insurance Rehabilitation Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinic Wetterau, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Sieglinde Spörl-Dönch

Affiliation Clinic for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Diseases ‘Haus Franken’ GmbH, Bad Neustadt/ Saale, Germany

Manfred E. Beutel

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RZ KG MEB. Data curation: RZ JB. Formal analysis: RZ JB. Funding acquisition: RZ MEB. Investigation: RZ KG JB. Methodology: RZ JB MEB. Project administration: RZ KG MH MS UK SSD. Resources: MH MS UK SSD. Supervision: RZ MEB. Validation: RZ MEB. Visualization: RZ KG JB. Writing – original draft: RZ JB MEB. Writing – review & editing: RZ MEB KG MH MS UK SSD.