Data management
RECRUITMENT
A detailed data protection concept was developed with the data protection officer of the German Pension Insurance Berlin-Brandenburg, which clarifies the rights of participants as well as the organisational procedures for the collection, processing and storage of data. Pseudonymised administrative data of the participants are transferred from the German Pension Insurance Berlin-Brandenburg and German Federal Pension Insurance to the Charité based on the unique case ID for evaluation after completion of the recruitment process.Collected questionnaires are scanned and verified at the Charité with the data capture system evasys, to assign the pseudonymised questionnaire data to the corresponding case ID and to export them for the analyses. Data entry and data verification are carried out by trained research assistants. The questionnaires and administrative data can be linked via the unique case ID. The electronic data are stored on an internal server of the Charité. Only the study team has access to the data.