Urologists’ Estimation of Online Support Group Utilization Behavior of Their Patients With Newly Diagnosed Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer in Germany: Predefined Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Philipp Karschuck   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Christer Groeben   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Rainer Koch   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Tanja Krones   ⁴ , MD ;   Andreas Neisius   ⁵ , MD ;   Sven von Ahn   ⁵ , MD ;   Christian Peter Klopf   ⁶ , MD ;   Steffen Weikert   ⁶ , MD ;   Michael Siebels   ⁷ , MD ;   Nicolas Haseke   ⁷ , MD ;   Christian Weissflog   ⁸ , MD ;   Martin Baunacke   ² , MD ;   Christian Thomas   ² , MD ;   Peter Liske   ⁹ , MD ;   Georgi Tosev   ^{1, 10} , MD ;   Thomas Benusch   ¹¹ , MD ;   Martin Schostak   ^{12, 13} , MD, PhD ;   Joachim Stein   ¹⁴ , MD ;   Philipp Spiegelhalder   ¹⁵ , MD ;   Andreas Ihrig   ^{16 *} , PhD ;   Johannes Huber   ^{1, 2 *} , MHBA, MD, PhD

¹ Department of Urology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

² Department of Urology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

³ Department of Urology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

⁴ University Hospital Zürich, University of Zurich, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, Zurich, Switzerland

⁵ Department of Urology, Brüderkrankenhaus Trier, Trier, Germany

⁶ Department of Urology, Alexianer St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, Berlin, Germany

⁷ Urological Joint Practice Urologie Pasing Prof Dr med Michael Siebels & Dr med Nicolas Haseke, Munich, Germany

⁸ Urological Joint Practice am Weißen Hirsch, Dresden, Germany

⁹ Urological Practice Dr Gnann und Dr Liske, Stuttgart, Germany

¹⁰ Urological Practice, Mannheim, Germany

¹¹ Urological Practice, Neustadt/Saxony, Germany

¹² Department of Urology, Uro-Oncology, Robot-Assisted and Focal Therapy, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

¹³ LOGICURO, Berlin, Germany

¹⁴ Department of Urology, KRH Klinikum Großburgwedel, Burgwedel, Germany

¹⁵ Urological Joint Practice Urologie Neandertal, Mettmann, Germany

¹⁶ Division of Psychooncology, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

*these authors contributed equally