About the Authors

Swaantje Casjens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

swaantje.casjens@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Affiliation Ruhr University Bochum, Medical Faculty, Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Jan Hovanec

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ruhr University Bochum, Medical Faculty, Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Nadine Glaser

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Janka Massag

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Laura Pfrommer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Center for Mental Health, Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Nils Opel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

André Karch

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Saskia Muellmann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany, Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen (LSC DiPH), Bremen, Germany

Irene Moor

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Medical Faculty, Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Sciences (PZG), Institute of Medical Sociology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Michael Gekle

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Julius-Bernstein-Institute of Physiology, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Matthias Girndt

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Simone Hettmer

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Jessica I. Höll

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Michael Heuser

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Thomas Frese

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Interdisciplinary Centre of Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Rafael Mikolajczyk

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Center for Mental Health, Site Halle-Jena-Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Thomas Behrens

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ruhr University Bochum, Medical Faculty, Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

SC, JH, and TB as staff of the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine (IPA), are employed at the German Social Accident Insurance which supported recruitment in southern Northern-Westphalia. IPA is an independent research institute of the Ruhr University Bochum. The authors are independent from the German Social Accident Insurance in study design, access to the collected data, responsibility for data analysis and interpretation, and the right to publish. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the sponsor. MH reports research funding to his institution from Abbvie, Bayer Pharma AG, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Glycostem, PinotBio, Servier, and Toray; honoraria from Astellas, Daiichi-Sankyo, Otsuka, Pfizer, and Servier; and consultancy fees from Abbvie, Ascentage Pharma, Astellas, Daiichi-Sankyo, Janssen, Miltenyi, and Servier. These relationships are unrelated to the work reported in this manuscript and did not influence the research or its interpretation. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.