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psychotic symptoms, cognitive impairments, dementia
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All consecutive rehabilitants who in the course of a year, accompanied by a relative with dementia, were newly admitted to AMEOS Rehab Clinical Centre Ratzeburg, a rehab clinic for family carers, were addressed as potential study participants. Exclusion criteria were the presence of a personality disorder, psychotic symptoms, language barriers and cognitive impairments [All newly arriving rehabilitants at the clinic were screened by the study staff on site regarding their eligibility for study participation according to the inclusion/ exclusion criteria. Eligible rehabilitants were then scheduled to attend the information session via the therapy control centre. During the information session, the rehab patients were informed about the study project and asked for their consent to participate in the study [