Claudia Kirsch
Scientific Director of the Family Health Research Network
Master of Arts Public Health/ Nursing Science
Phone: (0511) 532 - 6423
Professional background
- Born in 1991
- Studied Public Health/ Health Science at the University of Bremen (B.A.)
- Studied Public Health/Nursing Science at the University of Bremen (M.A.)
- Since 04/2022 part-time studies in Social Work (B.A.) at the distance learning university Diploma
- 03/2013 to 03/2015 Student assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS GmbH (I.Family, National Cohort), Bremen
- From 04/2017 to 04/2020 Research assistant at the Hannover Medical School in the Institute of General Medicine
- Since 12/2016 Research Associate at Hannover Medical School in the Family Health Research Network of the Research and Teaching Unit Medical Sociology
- Since 09/2020 Scientific Director of the Family Health Research Network
Teaching
- Fundamentals of Communications and Interviewing in the module "Diagnostic Methods I" (2nd year of Human medicine)
- Prevention and health promotion in the module "Psychological and sociological basics" (2nd year of Human medicine)
- Small groups as part of the propaedeutic course "Pain and Disability" and "Cancer Diseases" (1st year of Human medicine)
Main areas of work
- Quality management and quality development in mother/father-child Clinical Departments
- Therapeutic services (KTL)
- Family interventions
- Parental burnout
Förster, M.; Kirsch, C.; Habermann, J.; Noeres, D. (2025). Exploring the connection between maternal mental health and partnership, parental role, and satisfaction with various aspects of life using pairfam data: a cross-sectional analysis. BMC Women's Health 25, 395. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-025-03933-7
Kirsch, C., Leddin, D., Otto, F., Förster, M. (2022). Therapeutic measures of inpatient mother-child preventive measures - analysis based on the classification of therapeutic services. Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation, 35 (3 (119)).
Kirsch, C., Otto, F., Leddin, D., Sperlich, S., Geyer, S. (2022). Mother-child measures: Changing demands, future developments. Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation, 35 (3 (119)).
Förster, M., Otto, F., Jax, J.,Löffler, L., Kirsch, C. (2022). Family measures in the setting of mother/father/child preventive care facilities - mothers' and fathers' stress and their reasons for utilization. Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation, 35 (3 (119)).
Leddin, D., Epping, J., Kirsch, C. (2022). Mental health of mothers during the corona pandemic - correlations with an altered mother-child relationship. Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation, 35 (3 (119)).
Otto, F., Leddin, D., Förster, M., Kirsch, C. (2022). Increase in health-related quality of life after inpatient mother-child measures - results of the RessQu study. Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation, 35 (3 (119)).
Junius-Walker, U., Krause, O., Thürmann, P., Bernhard, S., Fuchs, A., Sparenberg, L., Wollny, A., Stolz, R., Haumann, H., Freytag, A., Kirsch, C., Usacheva, S., Wilm, S., Wiese, B., on behalf of the HIOPP-3-iTBX study group (2021). Drug safety for nursing-home residents-findings of a pragmatic, cluster-randomized, controlled intervention trial in 44 nursing homes. Dtsch Arztebl Int, 118, 705-12. DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0297
Kirsch, C., Doyle, I.-M., Krause, O., Junius-Walker, U., Wiese, B., Thürmann, P., Sparenberg L. C., Wollny, A., Fuchs, A., Wilm, S., Joos, S., Stolz, R., Haumann, H. (2020). "Lessons learned" - Challenges in the recruitment process in the cluster-randomized nursing home study "HIOPP-3 iTBX". Z. Evid. Fortbild. Qual. Gesundh. wesen (ZEFQ), 156-157, 24-32. doi. org/10.1016/j.zefq.2020.07.002
Krause, O., Wiese, B., Doyle, I.-M., Kirsch, C., Thürmann, P., Wilm, S., Sparenberg, L., Stolz, R., Freytag, A., Bleidorn, J., Junius-Walker, U., Bernard, S., Kortekamp, S., Fuchs, A., Mortsiefer, A., Wollny, A., Altiner, A., Haumann, H., Joos, S., Schneider, N., Grobe, T. G., Günster, C. & Group, F. T. H.-.-I. S. (2019). Multidisciplinary intervention to improve medication safety in nursing home residents: protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial (HIOPP-3-iTBX study). BMC Geriatrics, 19, 24. doi. org/10.1186/s12877-019-1027-0
Hauser, D., Sperlich, S. Kirsch, C. (2025): Mental health of single mothers and mothers living in partnerships at the beginning and after an inpatient mother-child preventive measure. In: German Network for Health Services Research (ed.): Zukunftskompetenz für ein resilientes Gesundheitssystem, 24th German Congress for Health Services Research. 22-24.09. Hamburg. Available online.
Noeres, D., Hauser, D., Förster, M., Kirsch, C., Habermann, J. (2025): Prevalence and risk factors of parental burnout in Germany. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Mensch trifft Maschine - digitale Chancen in Prävention und Rehabilitation nutzen, 34th Rehabilitationswissenschaftliches Kolloquium. 18-20.03. Nuremberg (DRV-Schriften, 131), pp. 492-493. available online. Poster available online.
Habermann, J., Hauser, D., Noeres, D., Kirsch, C. (2024): Physician staffing situation in inpatient mother/father/child prevention and rehabilitation facilities. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Sustainability and participation: ecological - economic - social, 33rd Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. 18-20.03. Bremen. Available online.
Habermann, J., Noeres, D., Kirsch, C. (2024): Telemedicine yes, please or no, thank you: Use and evaluation of telemedicine in the inpatient prevention and rehabilitation of mothers and fathers and their children. In: German Pension Insurance North (ed.): Rehabilitation - Change, Crisis, Opportunity, 12th Rehabilitation Symposium. 13.11.2023. Lübeck. available online.
Förster, M., Kirsch, C., Noeres, D. (2023): Mentally stressed mothers in inpatient mother-child prevention and rehabilitation measures: Description of the target group based on pairfam data. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Promoting a culture of change - strengthening participation - shaping the future, 32nd Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. 20-22.02. Hannover (DRV-Schriften, 128), pp. 440-443. available online.
Kirsch, C., Förster, M., Noeres, D. (2023): Children in need of treatment in inpatient mother/father-child measures: Analysis of therapeutic measures using data from the Classification of Therapeutic Services. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Promoting a culture of change - strengthening participation - shaping the future, 32nd Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. 20-22.02. Hanover (DRV-Schriften, 128), pp. 241-243. Available online.
Kirsch, C., Leddin, D., Otto F., Förster, M. (2022): Analysis of therapeutic measures of inpatient mother-child preventive measures using data from the Classification of Therapeutic Services (KTL). In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Neue Wege, neue Chancen, vol. 126. 31st Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. Hybrid, 07.-09.03. Münster (DRV-Schriften, 126), pp. 267-270. Available online.
Kirsch, C., Leddin, D., Förster, M., Otto F. (2022): Can the health of children be promoted in inpatient mother/father/child prevention or rehabilitation measures? In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Neue Wege, neue Chancen, vol. 126. 31st Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. Hybrid, 07.-09.03. Münster (DRV-Schriften, 126), pp. 176-178. available online.
Kirsch, C., Leddin, D. (2021): Effects of the first corona-related partial lockdown on the long-term effects of a mother-child measure. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Participation and the world of work in special times, vol. 123. 30th Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. Digital, 22-25.03. Berlin (DRV-Schriften, 123), pp. 227-228. available online.
Kirsch, C. (2020): Resource activation and increase in health-related quality of life through inpatient mother-child measures? - RessQu study. VII Scientific Symposium of the Family Health Research Network in Celle, October 01-02, 2020.
Kirsch, C. (2020): Children's health in inpatient mother/father-child interventions - RessQu study. VII Scientific Symposium of the Family Health Research Network in Celle, October 01-02, 2020.
Kirsch, C., Jax, J., Otto, F. (2020): Can't be done, doesn't exist! - Family measures as a new concept in the setting of mother-child/father-child care facilities. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Prevention and rehabilitation - the company as a partner, vol. 120. 29th Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. Hanover, 02-04.03. Berlin (DRV-Schriften, 120), pp. 372-374. Available online .
Stolz, R., Doyle, I.-M., Junius-Walker, U., Kirsch, C., Krause, O., Wiese, B., Fuchs, A., Wilm, S., Sparenberg, L. C., Wollny, A., Bernard, S., Thürmann, P., Freytag, A., Joos, S., Hannah, H. (2020). Research project HIOPP-3: General practitioner initiative to optimize patient safety in polypharmacy - results of the analysis of structural quality characteristics of the actors involved. 19 Congress for Health Services Research. DOI: 10.3205/20dkvf005.
Kirsch, C., Junius-Walker, U., Doyle, I.M., Sparenberg, L.C., Wollny, A., Fuchs, A., Wilm, S., Haumann, H., Stolz, R., Krause, O. (2019): "Four wins" - the challenge of a multi-stage recruitment process in the cluster-randomized study "HIOPP-3 iTBX". 53rd Congress of General Practice and Family Medicine. German Medical Science 2019.
Kirsch, C., Barre, F., Otto, F. (2019): Parents' expectations and wishes for a family cure - a qualitative study. Berlin (18th German Congress for Health Services Research).
Otto, F., de Wall, S., Kirsch, C., Barre, F. (2019): Application of the Delphi method for the development of indication-specific treatment concepts according to KTL. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): Rehabilitation - Shaping healthcare for the future, vol. 117. 28th Rehabilitation Science Colloquium. Berlin, 15-17.04. Berlin (DRV-Schriften, 117), pp. 35-37. available online
Stolz, R., Haumann, H., Joos, S., Doyle, I.-M., Kirsch, C., Thürmann, P., Bernard, S., Altiner, A., Wollny, A., Wilm, S., Mortsiefer, A., Kortekamp, S., Wiese, B., Schneider, N., Bleidorn, J., Junius-Walker, U. & Krause, O. (2018): HIOPP-3: Interprofessional optimization of medication in nursing home residents - a cluster randomized controlled trial. In: STEMMER, P. D. R., ed. 1st international conference of the German Society for Nursing Science 4th - 5th of May 2018a Berlin. Duisburg: German Society for Nursing Science e.V., 40.
Stolz, R., Haumann, H., Leibfritz, H., Joos, S., Doyle, I.-M., Kirsch, C., Thürmann, P. A., Bernard, S., Altiner, A., Wollny, A., Wilm, S., Fuchs, A., Kortekamp, S., Wiese, B., Schneider, N., Bleidorn, J., Junius-Walker, U. & Krause, O. (2018): HIOPP-3: interprofessional intervention to optimize patient safety in polypharmacy. . Journal of Gerontology Geriatrics, 51, p 137.
Doyle, I.-M., Kirsch, C., Thürmann, P., Joos, S., Altiner, A., Wilm, S., Wiese, B., Schneider, N., Bleidorn, J. & Krause, O. (2017): Study protocol of a cluster-randomized trial to explore appropriate and safe medication in nursing home residents using an interprofessional toolbox. 51st Congress of General Practice - The human being at the center? General practitioner action between demands and everyday life. Düsseldorf.