J Wager

Curriculum vitae

Dr. Julia Wager is head of the research department at the German Pediatric Pain Center and Palliative Care Center, Children’s and Adolescents’ Hospital Datteln – Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, and scientific director of PedScience, an extramural research institute. By training, she is a psychologist and pediatric psychotherapist (CBT). Dr. Wager’s main research interests are outcome measurement, health service research and evaluation of complex interventions in pediatric pain therapy and pediatric palliative care. She has obtained third-party research funds adding up to more than 5 Mio. Euros, conducted several multi-center clinical trials and has published more than 100 scientific peer-reviewed manuscripts (h-index 24). Since 2019, Dr. Wager is the chairperson of the Special Interest Group “Pain in Children and Adolescents” of the German Pain Society.

Declaration of Interest

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The 5 most important personal publication

Grothus S, Sommer A, Claus BB, Stahlschmidt L, Chorpita BF, Wager J. The German Version of the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) – Psychometric properties and normative data for German 8- to 17-year-olds. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2023; e1965. doi: 10.1002/mpr.1965.

Stahlschmidt L, Dogan M, Hübner-Möhler B, Jervis K, Randall ET, Wallace DP, Zernikow B, Wager J. Development and Validation of the Scale for Pain Self-Efficacy (SPaSE) in German and English Languages for Children and Adolescents. J Pain 2023. 24(6):1069-1079. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2023.01.007.

Claus BB, Stahlschmidt L, Dunford E, Major J, Harbeck-Weber C, Bhandari RP, Baerveldt A, Neß V, Grochowska K, Hübner-Möhler B, Zernikow B, Wager J. Intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment for children and adolescents with chronic non-cancer pain: a preregistered systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. Pain 2022. 163(12):2281-2301. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002636.

Dogan M, Hirschfeld G, Blankenburg M, Frühwald M, Ahnert R, Braun S, Marschall U, Pfenning I, Zernikow B, Wager J. Effectiveness of a psychosocial aftercare program for youth aged 8-17 years with severe chronic pain: A pragmatic randomized clinical trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2021. 2021;4(9):e2127024. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.27024.

Wager J, Brown D, Kupitz A, Rosenthal N, Zernikow B. Prevalence and associated psychosocial and health factors of chronic pain in adolescents: differences by sex and age. Eur J Pain 2020. 24(4):761-772.