We, the Editors, the Swedish Association of Behavioural Therapists, and Taylor & Francis, the publishers of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, are retracting the following article at the authors' request.
“Biofeedback for Pain Management in Traumatised Refugees” by Julia Müller, Claudia Denke, Anke Karl, Fabienne Mathier, Jennifer Dittmann, Nicolas Rohleder, Christine Knaevelsrud, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (2009), 38 (3), 184–190 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16506070902815024
The authors comment that retraction is necessary “due to irregularities […] found regarding compliance with study procedures and data management. Ethical approval for both study sites had been obtained for the main study but not the pilot study published in this article. Data files comprising details of participants that were not de-identified were sent between study sites. At the Zurich study site, research sessions and interpreter costs were erroneously partly charged to the insurance companies and the university hospital rather than to the appropriate research account. In the meantime, the affected insurance companies and the hospital were reimbursed. Data quality, data analyses, and clinical conclusions drawn from the results were not affected.”
We, the Editors, the Swedish Association of Behavioural Therapists, and Taylor & Francis, the publishers of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, note we received, peer-reviewed, accepted, and published the article in good faith.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as RETRACTED.