About the Authors

Janine Stein

Janine.Stein@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

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

Melanie Luppa

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

Ulrike Ruzanska

Affiliations Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Psychology, Faculty of Bioscience, Pharmacy und Psychology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Claudia Sikorski

Affiliations Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig University Medical Centre, Integrated Research and Treatment Centre (IFB) Adiposity Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Hans-Helmut König

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

Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS ML CS SRH. Performed the experiments: CS SRH. Analyzed the data: JS UR ML SRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HHK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JS ML CS UR HHK SRH. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: JS ML CS HHK SRH.