“…This is important because treatment preferences are significantly associated with adherence (Raue, Schulberg, Heo, Klimstra, & Bruce, 2009), whereas there are conflicting results on the impact of treatment preferences on outcomes (Mergl et al, 2011;Raue et al, 2009). In comparison with current samples of depressive patients in Germany, however, there is no evidence of differences in age or gender (Altmann et al, 2015;Dorow et al, 2018;H€ olzel et al, 2014). The average BMI in our sample, which was 24.2, was slightly smaller than the BMI of the German population, which is 26.5 for women and 27.2 for men (Mensink et al, 2013), but of course this finding may be explained to some extent by the exclusion of individuals with a BMI above 40.…”