Ulrike Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 283785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrike Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrike |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT U |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3761-2804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Turning Points in Eating Disorder Recovery Among Individuals From Marginalised Communities Using Objects: A Qualitative Study
Eating disorder (ED) recovery narratives provide valuable insights into the recovery process. While existing research identifies key turning points in ED recovery, most studies focus on majority populations, neglecting the experiences of minoritised individuals. This study aimed to explore the turning points in ED recovery among diverse individuals and examine the role of symbolic objects in understanding recovery processes. English-speaking adul…
“FREED instils a bit of hope in the eating disorder community… that things can change.”: An investigation of clinician views on implementation facilitators and challenges from the rapid scaling of the…
The FREED model appears to be desirable to clinical staff. Wider team and managerial support was perceived to be particularly important to its successful implementation, as were the national network and supervision. Key areas of complexity include staffing issues and high ED acuity/prevalence. These barriers to implementation need to be managed and investment continued to expand and improve early intervention for EDs further
Qualitative Digital Diary Methods: Participant-Led Values for Ethical and Insightful Mental Health Research
Qualitative digital diary methods are a promising tool for capturing participants' experiences in their own words and over time. The use of smartphone apps to collect this kind of data provides an accessible and flexible way to participate in research, but to truly benefit from this method, participants needs and preferences must be taken into account. This paper explores participants' experiences of taking part in qualitative digital diary resea…
ADHD Prevalence among Outpatients with Severe Opioid Use Disorder on Daily Intravenous Diamorphine and/or Oral Opioid Maintenance Treatment
(1) Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common comorbid condition in opioid use disorder (OUD) and is associated with a more severe course of substance use. Patients with severe OUD who have not responded to oral opioid maintenance treatment can be treated with intravenous diamorphine up to three times per day. Here, we investigated the prevalence of ADHD among patients undergoing either daily diamorphine maintenance …
Does concurrent self-administered transcranial direct current stimulation and attention bias modification training improve symptoms of binge eating disorder? Protocol for the Tandem feasibility random…
It is hoped that data from the trial will contribute to the development of neurobiologically informed treatments for BED, provide insights into the potential use of at-home variants of tDCS, and inform the design of future large scale trials
Identity Development and Social-Emotional Disorders During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Depression, anxiety and eating disorders (“social-emotional disorders”) are common during adolescence/emerging adulthood, periods of intense identity development. Despite this, there are few reviews of existing research on the relationship between symptoms of these disorders and ongoing identity development. This study systematically reviewed, narratively synthesized and meta-analyzed longitudinal investigations of the relationship between identi…
The outcomes of mindfulness-based interventions for Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Eating disorders
Bad Things Come to Those Who Do Not Wait: Temporal Discounting Is Associated With Compulsive Overeating, Eating Disorder Psychopathology and Food Addiction
The tendency to act on immediate pleasure-driven desires, due to the devaluation of future rewards [a process known as temporal discounting (TD)], has been associated with substance use disorders (SUD) and with conditions characterised by compulsive overeating. The study involved a large inclusive participant sample (i.e., no diagnostic or exclusion criteria were applied). They were recruited/assessed online and we investigated whether TD was rel…
Now It's Just Old Habits and Misery”–Understanding the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on People With Current or Life-Time Eating Disorders: A Qualitative Study
Background: Many aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic may make living with or recovery from an eating disorder (ED) particularly challenging. Understanding the processes which underlie the psychological and behavioral responses of people with EDs during this time are key to ensure tailored support in these unprecedented circumstances. Methods: People with lifetime EDs ( n = 32) were recruited through social media from May to June 2020 during a period…
Test-retest reliability of attention bias for food: Robust eye-tracking and reaction time indices
Concept and evaluation of food craving: Unidimensional scales based on the Trait and the State Food Craving Questionnaire
Craving" is a motivational state that promotes an intense desire related to consummatory behaviors. Despite growing interest in the concept of food craving, there is a lack of available instruments to assess it in Brazilian Portuguese. The objectives were to translate and adapt the Trait and the State Food Craving Questionnaire (FCQ-T and FCQ-S) to Brazilian Portuguese and to evaluate the psychometric properties of these versions.The FCQ-T and FC…
Approach bias and cue reactivity towards food in people with high versus low levels of food craving
The effects of prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on food craving and temporal discounting in women with frequent food cravings
Therapeutic Action of Fluoxetine is Associated with a Reduction in Prefrontal Cortical miR-1971 Expression Levels in a Mouse Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that have recently emerged as epigenetic modulators of gene expression in psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia and major depression. So far, miRNAs have neither been studied in patients suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) nor in PTSD animal models. Here, we present the first study exploring the connection between miRNAs and PTSD. Employing our previously established PTSD mo…
Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e): A Survival Kit for Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders
Easy to read and illustrated with many real-life examples, this book addresses the specific problems faced on a daily basis by bulimia sufferers. The only self-help programme that has been evaluated in a randomised controlled trial, it provides detailed step-by-step advice for dealing with this condition. Unlike other less problem-oriented books currently available on the subject, this book concentrates on the key behaviour changes necessary for …
Illness perception in bulimia nervosa
The study was designed to extend our understanding of illness perceptions in patients with bulimia nervosa (BN). Seventy-eight participants with BN or BN-type Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS-BN) completed the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) ( Moss-Morris et al., 2002 ). Clinical variables were also assessed. Participants experienced their ED as chronic, with serious consequences and high associated levels of anxiet…
A brief emotion focused intervention for inpatients with anorexia nervosa: A qualitative study
Cognitive Remediation and Emotion Skills Training (CREST), a brief social cognition intervention, was developed for inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). CREST was piloted and evaluated in 28 Anorexia Nervosa patients on a specialist eating disorder inpatient unit. Content analysis was employed to qualitatively explore patients' experience of the intervention. Results suggest that patients perceived CREST positively. Main themes identified were …
Self-Help and Stepped Care in Eating Disorders
This chapter reviews the utility of self-help interventions in the treatment of eating disorders. It describes the origins, rationale, and theoretical considerations for the development and use of self-help interventions. Different forms of self-help and modes of delivery are described. The existing research evidence on self-help in eating disorders (EDs) is detailed, including an overview of what is known about predictors and moderators of outco…
A Randomized Controlled Two-Stage Trial in the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa, Comparing CBT Versus Motivational Enhancement in Phase 1 Followed by Group Versus Individual CBT in Phase 2
Objective: To conduct a randomized, controlled, two-stage trial in the treatment of bulimia nervosa, comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) versus motivational enhancement in Phase 1 followed by group versus individual CBT in Phase 2. Methods: A total of 225 patients with bulimia nervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) were recruited into a randomized controlled trial lasting 12 weeks with follow-ups at 1 year and 2.5 yea…
Emotional Theory of Mind and Emotional Awareness in Recovered Anorexia Nervosa Patients
OBJECTIVES: To examine whether an impaired ability to infer emotion in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and difficulty with emotional theory of mind (eToM) are limited to the ill state or if this condition is a stable deficit that persists with recovery in adults with anorexia nervosa (AN). This is in keeping with observations of similarities between the disorders. METHODS: Twenty-four participants fully recovered from AN were compared …
Service Variation in Baseline Variables and Prediction of Risk in a Randomised Controlled Trial of Psychological Treatment in Repeated Parasuicide: The Popmact Study
The treatment protocol and baseline characteristics of 480 subjects with a history of repeated parasuicide recruited in five centres to a randomised therapeutic trial of manual assisted cognitive-behaviour therapy (MACT) and treatment as usual (TAU) are described. Most patients had significant anxiety and depressive disturbance with 42% having a personality disorder. Variation in service policies influenced recruitment, with earlier assessment ce…
Childhood adversity and adult defence style in eating disorder patients—A controlled study
The aims of the study were (1) to compare the defence style of patients with anorexia nervosa with that of patients with bulimia nervosa and of female controls; (2) to establish whether a link exists between childhood adversity and adult defence style in eating disorder patients. Twenty‐six patients with restricting anorexia nervosa (RAN), 61 patients with bulimia nervosa (BN), 37 patients with bulimic anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa with a h…
Approach bias and cue reactivity towards food in people with high versus low levels of food craving
The effects of prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on food craving and temporal discounting in women with frequent food cravings
Test-retest reliability of attention bias for food: Robust eye-tracking and reaction time indices
A brief emotion focused intervention for inpatients with anorexia nervosa: A qualitative study
Cognitive Remediation and Emotion Skills Training (CREST), a brief social cognition intervention, was developed for inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). CREST was piloted and evaluated in 28 Anorexia Nervosa patients on a specialist eating disorder inpatient unit. Content analysis was employed to qualitatively explore patients' experience of the intervention. Results suggest that patients perceived CREST positively. Main themes identified were …
Illness perception in bulimia nervosa
The study was designed to extend our understanding of illness perceptions in patients with bulimia nervosa (BN). Seventy-eight participants with BN or BN-type Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS-BN) completed the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) ( Moss-Morris et al., 2002 ). Clinical variables were also assessed. Participants experienced their ED as chronic, with serious consequences and high associated levels of anxiet…
Qualitative Digital Diary Methods: Participant-Led Values for Ethical and Insightful Mental Health Research
Qualitative digital diary methods are a promising tool for capturing participants' experiences in their own words and over time. The use of smartphone apps to collect this kind of data provides an accessible and flexible way to participate in research, but to truly benefit from this method, participants needs and preferences must be taken into account. This paper explores participants' experiences of taking part in qualitative digital diary resea…
Childhood adversity and adult defence style in eating disorder patients—A controlled study
The aims of the study were (1) to compare the defence style of patients with anorexia nervosa with that of patients with bulimia nervosa and of female controls; (2) to establish whether a link exists between childhood adversity and adult defence style in eating disorder patients. Twenty‐six patients with restricting anorexia nervosa (RAN), 61 patients with bulimia nervosa (BN), 37 patients with bulimic anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa with a h…
Service Variation in Baseline Variables and Prediction of Risk in a Randomised Controlled Trial of Psychological Treatment in Repeated Parasuicide: The Popmact Study
The treatment protocol and baseline characteristics of 480 subjects with a history of repeated parasuicide recruited in five centres to a randomised therapeutic trial of manual assisted cognitive-behaviour therapy (MACT) and treatment as usual (TAU) are described. Most patients had significant anxiety and depressive disturbance with 42% having a personality disorder. Variation in service policies influenced recruitment, with earlier assessment ce…
Self-Help and Stepped Care in Eating Disorders
This chapter reviews the utility of self-help interventions in the treatment of eating disorders. It describes the origins, rationale, and theoretical considerations for the development and use of self-help interventions. Different forms of self-help and modes of delivery are described. The existing research evidence on self-help in eating disorders (EDs) is detailed, including an overview of what is known about predictors and moderators of outco…
A Randomized Controlled Two-Stage Trial in the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa, Comparing CBT Versus Motivational Enhancement in Phase 1 Followed by Group Versus Individual CBT in Phase 2
Objective: To conduct a randomized, controlled, two-stage trial in the treatment of bulimia nervosa, comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) versus motivational enhancement in Phase 1 followed by group versus individual CBT in Phase 2. Methods: A total of 225 patients with bulimia nervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) were recruited into a randomized controlled trial lasting 12 weeks with follow-ups at 1 year and 2.5 yea…
Emotional Theory of Mind and Emotional Awareness in Recovered Anorexia Nervosa Patients
OBJECTIVES: To examine whether an impaired ability to infer emotion in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and difficulty with emotional theory of mind (eToM) are limited to the ill state or if this condition is a stable deficit that persists with recovery in adults with anorexia nervosa (AN). This is in keeping with observations of similarities between the disorders. METHODS: Twenty-four participants fully recovered from AN were compared …
A brief emotion focused intervention for inpatients with anorexia nervosa: A qualitative study
Cognitive Remediation and Emotion Skills Training (CREST), a brief social cognition intervention, was developed for inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). CREST was piloted and evaluated in 28 Anorexia Nervosa patients on a specialist eating disorder inpatient unit. Content analysis was employed to qualitatively explore patients' experience of the intervention. Results suggest that patients perceived CREST positively. Main themes identified were …
Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e): A Survival Kit for Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders
Easy to read and illustrated with many real-life examples, this book addresses the specific problems faced on a daily basis by bulimia sufferers. The only self-help programme that has been evaluated in a randomised controlled trial, it provides detailed step-by-step advice for dealing with this condition. Unlike other less problem-oriented books currently available on the subject, this book concentrates on the key behaviour changes necessary for …
Illness perception in bulimia nervosa
The study was designed to extend our understanding of illness perceptions in patients with bulimia nervosa (BN). Seventy-eight participants with BN or BN-type Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS-BN) completed the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) ( Moss-Morris et al., 2002 ). Clinical variables were also assessed. Participants experienced their ED as chronic, with serious consequences and high associated levels of anxiet…
Therapeutic Action of Fluoxetine is Associated with a Reduction in Prefrontal Cortical miR-1971 Expression Levels in a Mouse Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that have recently emerged as epigenetic modulators of gene expression in psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia and major depression. So far, miRNAs have neither been studied in patients suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) nor in PTSD animal models. Here, we present the first study exploring the connection between miRNAs and PTSD. Employing our previously established PTSD mo…
The effects of prefrontal cortex transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on food craving and temporal discounting in women with frequent food cravings
Approach bias and cue reactivity towards food in people with high versus low levels of food craving
Concept and evaluation of food craving: Unidimensional scales based on the Trait and the State Food Craving Questionnaire
Craving" is a motivational state that promotes an intense desire related to consummatory behaviors. Despite growing interest in the concept of food craving, there is a lack of available instruments to assess it in Brazilian Portuguese. The objectives were to translate and adapt the Trait and the State Food Craving Questionnaire (FCQ-T and FCQ-S) to Brazilian Portuguese and to evaluate the psychometric properties of these versions.The FCQ-T and FC…
Test-retest reliability of attention bias for food: Robust eye-tracking and reaction time indices
Eating disorders
Bad Things Come to Those Who Do Not Wait: Temporal Discounting Is Associated With Compulsive Overeating, Eating Disorder Psychopathology and Food Addiction
The tendency to act on immediate pleasure-driven desires, due to the devaluation of future rewards [a process known as temporal discounting (TD)], has been associated with substance use disorders (SUD) and with conditions characterised by compulsive overeating. The study involved a large inclusive participant sample (i.e., no diagnostic or exclusion criteria were applied). They were recruited/assessed online and we investigated whether TD was rel…
Now It's Just Old Habits and Misery”–Understanding the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on People With Current or Life-Time Eating Disorders: A Qualitative Study
Background: Many aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic may make living with or recovery from an eating disorder (ED) particularly challenging. Understanding the processes which underlie the psychological and behavioral responses of people with EDs during this time are key to ensure tailored support in these unprecedented circumstances. Methods: People with lifetime EDs ( n = 32) were recruited through social media from May to June 2020 during a period…
The outcomes of mindfulness-based interventions for Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Does concurrent self-administered transcranial direct current stimulation and attention bias modification training improve symptoms of binge eating disorder? Protocol for the Tandem feasibility random…
It is hoped that data from the trial will contribute to the development of neurobiologically informed treatments for BED, provide insights into the potential use of at-home variants of tDCS, and inform the design of future large scale trials
Identity Development and Social-Emotional Disorders During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Depression, anxiety and eating disorders (“social-emotional disorders”) are common during adolescence/emerging adulthood, periods of intense identity development. Despite this, there are few reviews of existing research on the relationship between symptoms of these disorders and ongoing identity development. This study systematically reviewed, narratively synthesized and meta-analyzed longitudinal investigations of the relationship between identi…
ADHD Prevalence among Outpatients with Severe Opioid Use Disorder on Daily Intravenous Diamorphine and/or Oral Opioid Maintenance Treatment
(1) Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common comorbid condition in opioid use disorder (OUD) and is associated with a more severe course of substance use. Patients with severe OUD who have not responded to oral opioid maintenance treatment can be treated with intravenous diamorphine up to three times per day. Here, we investigated the prevalence of ADHD among patients undergoing either daily diamorphine maintenance …
“FREED instils a bit of hope in the eating disorder community… that things can change.”: An investigation of clinician views on implementation facilitators and challenges from the rapid scaling of the…
The FREED model appears to be desirable to clinical staff. Wider team and managerial support was perceived to be particularly important to its successful implementation, as were the national network and supervision. Key areas of complexity include staffing issues and high ED acuity/prevalence. These barriers to implementation need to be managed and investment continued to expand and improve early intervention for EDs further
Qualitative Digital Diary Methods: Participant-Led Values for Ethical and Insightful Mental Health Research
Qualitative digital diary methods are a promising tool for capturing participants' experiences in their own words and over time. The use of smartphone apps to collect this kind of data provides an accessible and flexible way to participate in research, but to truly benefit from this method, participants needs and preferences must be taken into account. This paper explores participants' experiences of taking part in qualitative digital diary resea…
Turning Points in Eating Disorder Recovery Among Individuals From Marginalised Communities Using Objects: A Qualitative Study
Eating disorder (ED) recovery narratives provide valuable insights into the recovery process. While existing research identifies key turning points in ED recovery, most studies focus on majority populations, neglecting the experiences of minoritised individuals. This study aimed to explore the turning points in ED recovery among diverse individuals and examine the role of symbolic objects in understanding recovery processes. English-speaking adul…
Psychology (18 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Eating disorders (10 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (8 works) · Anorexia nervosa (5 works) · Bulimia nervosa (5 works)