Intervention and health services in ADHD
ESCAlife
Our research network ESCAlife (Evidence-based Stepped Care of ADHD across the lifespan) includes four multi-center trials on psychotherapy of ADHD from kindergarten to adulthood (BMBF funding program “Research Network on Mental Diseases”). ESCAlife is managed by the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim. The CAPPP Würzburg is the leading center of the controlled psychotherapy study for the treatment of ADHD in adolescents (ESCAadol) and is involved as a study center in trials on the treatment of ADHD in kindergarten and school age. Cross-sectional projects of ESCAlife serve to identify biomarkers that predict outcome. The ESCAlife research program will improve ADHD treatment algorithms through adaptive strategies that take into account age, gender, symptom severity, co-morbidity and treatment response. Our trials are carried out in routine outpatient clinical care in order to enable highly generalizable study results. These will be available from 2021.
INTEGATE-ADHD-Study
In addition to evidence-based treatment strategies, improving the quality of care requires reliable knowledge of the prevalence of ADHD and the status of care in Germany. This is investigated by the CAPPP in cooperation with DAK-Gesundheit, the Robert Koch Institute, the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, the Economic Research Institute WiFor and the Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry of the University of Würzburg in the network "ADHD in Germany - INTEGATE-ADHD" (funded by the innovation fund of the federal committee G-BA). The CAPPP is leading a project to compare the prevalence estimates of ADHD using registry entries, surveys and guideline-based clinical assessment. Other projects of INTEGRATE-ADHD are investigating the availability and use of care services for ADHD and health economics. INTEGRATE-ADHD will start in 2021.
KJPPP and ADHD research
With ESCAlife and INTEGRATE-ADHD, our research tradition on ADHD is continued, which includes the Clinical Research Group 125 from 2004 to 2009 (sponsored by the DFG) and the research network ADHDnet in the BMBF funding program "Research Networks on Psychotherapy" from 2006 to 2013.
Research Team
Leader:
PD Dr. phil. Thomas Jans
Team ESCAlife-Coordination:
Prof. Dr. med. Marcel Romanos
Dr. rer. nat. Julia Geissler
Annette Nowak
Biomarkers:
Dr. rer. nat. Carsten Drepper
Zuzana Fouskova
Clinical stuff – psychotherapy:
Nadja Becker
Julia Gläser
Verena Hartlieb
Silke Hauck
Christin Heim
Kristin Möllers
Corinna Otte
Isabel Paul
Christin Scheiner
Clinical stuff – medical management:
Dr. med. Stefanie Fekete
Dr. med. Michaela Linke
Dr. med. Carolin Steinmetz
Clinical stuff – assessment:
Nadja Becker
Dr. med. Annalena Berner
Verena Hartlieb
Silke Hauck
Christin Heim
Corinna Otte
Isabel Paul
Auxiliary scientists:
Adrian Dernbach
Lea Zwilling
Lea Brosig
Team INTEGRATE-ADHD:
Prof. Dr. med. Marcel Romanos
Project management and assessments:
Dr. med. Annalena Berner
Dr. Vanessa Scholz
Leila Hetzke
Selected Publications
Geissler, J., Jans, T., Banaschewski, T., Becker, K., Renner, T., Brandeis, D., Döpfner, M., Dose, C., Hautmann, C., Holtmann, M., Jenkner, C., Millenet, S., Romanos, M. (2018)
Individualised short-term therapy for adolescents impaired by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder despite previous routine care treatment (ESCAadol) – Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial within the consortium ESCAlife
Trials 19(1), 254
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Geissler JM, Vloet TD, Strom N, Jaite C, Graf E, Kappel V, Warnke A, Jacob C, Hennighausen K, Haack-Dees B, Schneider-Momm K, Matthies S, Rösler M, Retz W, Hänig S, Gontard A von, Sobanski E, Alm B, Hohmann S, Poustka L, Colla M, Gentschow L, Freitag CM, Häge A, Holtmann M, Becker K, Philipsen A, Jans T (2019)
Does helping mothers in multigenerational ADHD also help children in the long run? 2-year follow-up from baseline of the AIMAC randomized controlled multicentre trial
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 64(2): 218
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Häge, A., Alm, B., Banaschewski, T., Becker, K., Colla, M., Freitag, C., Geissler, J., von Gontard, A., Graf, E., Haack-Dees, B., Hänig, S., Hennighausen, K., Hohmann, S., Jacob, C., Jaite, C., Jennen-Steinmetz, C., Kappel, V., Matthies, S., Philipsen, A., Poustka, L., Retz, W., Rösler, M., Schneider-Momm, K., Sobanski, E., Vloet, T.D., Warnke, A., Jans, T. (2018)
Does the efficacy of parent-child training depend on maternal symptom improvement? Results from a randomized controlled trial on children and mothers both affected by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 27(8), 1011–1021.
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Jaite, C., van Noort, B.M., Vloet, T.D., Graf, E., Kappel, V., Geissler, J., Warnke, A., Jacob, C., Groß-Lesch, S., Hennighausen, K., Haack-Dees, B., Schneider-Momm, K., Philipsen, A., Matthies, S., Rösler, M., Retz, W., Hänig, S., von Gontard, A., Sobanski, E., Alm, B., Hohmann, S., Häge, A., Poustka, L., Colla, M., Gentschow, L., Freitag, C.M., Becker, K., Jans, T. (2019)
A multicentre randomized controlled trial on trans-generational attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in mothers and children (AIMAC): an exploratory analysis of predictors and moderators of treatment outcome
Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie 47(1), 49–65.
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Hautmann, C., Döpfner, M., Katzmann, J., Schürmann, S., Wolff Metternich-Kaizman, T., Jaite, C., Kappel, V., Geissler, J., Warnke, A., Jacob, C., Hennighausen, K., Haack-Dees, B., Schneider-Momm, K., Philipsen, A., Matthies, S., Rösler, M., Retz, W., von Gontard, A., Sobanski, E., Alm, B., Hohmann, S., Häge, A., Poustka, L., Colla, M., Gentschow, L., Freitag, C.M., Becker, K., Jans, T. (2018)
Sequential treatment of ADHD in mother and child (AIMAC study): importance of the treatment phases for intervention success in a randomized trial
BMC Psychiatry 18(1), 388
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Clinic and policlinic for CAPPP
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Directorate
Prof. Dr. Marcel Romanos
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Deputy Directorate
PD Dr. Regina Taurines
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Directorate / Prof. Dr. Marcel Romanos
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PD Dr. Regina Taurines
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Address
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Universitätsklinikums | Margarete-Höppel-Platz 1 | 97080 Würzburg | Deutschland