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Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ² Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ³ Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, University Medical Center Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn, Germany.
• ⁴ Institute of Primary Medical Care, University Medical Center Hamburg, Eppendorf, Germany.
• ⁵ Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ⁷ Institute of General Practice, WG IT Medical Statistics and IT Infrastructure, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ⁸ Institute of General Practice, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.