Data management and confidentiality
Questionnaires will be answered online. The screening is the only time participants enter personal contact information. In the subsequent assessments and questionnaires, participants are identified by a random computer-generated code. Other than the study coordinators, only therapists and clinical raters know the participant’s name. The anonymized data is stored in an encrypted folder on a protected research server at Goethe University Frankfurt. There is also a separate encrypted list that contains only contact information and the code so that participants can be contacted if needed. This list is deleted after the study, so that only the codes with the assigned data remain. The program R is used to analyze the data. The results of the study will be published only in peer-reviewed journals. The informed consent form will be kept in a locker at the outpatient clinics of the universities of Frankfurt and Dresden.