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  1. Hannah Bongartz and Nicole Rübsamen contributed equally to this work.

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  1. ESME-Epidemiological and Statistical Methods Research Group, Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124, Brunswick, Germany

    Hannah Bongartz, Nicole Rübsamen, Heike Raupach-Rosin, Manas K. Akmatov & Rafael T. Mikolajczyk

  2. TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, 30625, Hannover, Germany

    Manas K. Akmatov

  3. Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometry, and Informatics (IMEBI), Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Magdeburger Straße 8, 06112, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Rafael T. Mikolajczyk

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Bongartz, H., Rübsamen, N., Raupach-Rosin, H. et al. Why do people participate in health-related studies?. Int J Public Health 62, 1059–1062 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-017-1032-z

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