A5067324844- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Optimal Experimental Design Methods
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
University College London
2016-2025
University College Lahore
2025
Hasselt University
2014-2023
GlaxoSmithKline (Belgium)
2023
King's College London
2022
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2022
Faculty (United Kingdom)
2017-2020
Wellcome Trust
2019
UCL Australia
2012-2015
University of Padua
2012-2014
To investigate the association between overeating (without loss of control) and binge eating (overeating with adverse outcomes.Prospective cohort study.Adolescents young adults living throughout United States.Sixteen thousand eight hundred eighty-two males females participating in Growing Up Today Study who were 9 to 15 years old at enrollment 1996.Overeating assessed via questionnaire every 12 24 months 1996 2005.Risk becoming overweight or obese, starting drink frequently, use marijuana,...
OBJECTIVE: Anorexia nervosa and bulimia (BN) are rare, but eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS) relatively common among female participants. Our objective was to evaluate whether BN subtypes of EDNOS predictive developing adverse outcomes. METHODS: This study comprised a prospective analysis 8594 participants from the ongoing Growing Up Today Study. Questionnaires were sent annually 1996 through 2001, then biennially 2007 2008. Participants who 9 15 years age in completed at...
Finding innovative and cost-efficient care strategies that induce long-term health benefits in cardiac patients constitutes a big challenge today. The aim of this Telerehab III follow-up study was to assess whether 6-month additional telerehabilitation programme could remain after the tele-intervention ended. A total 126 first completed multicentre, randomised controlled trial (Telerehab III, time points t0 t1). They consequently entered (t1) with evaluations 2 years later (t2). quantitative...
Disordered eating has been shown to be more prevalent than full disorders diagnoses. However, research on its prevalence, socio-demographic, psychological correlates, and patterns of service use in multi-ethnic samples is still limited. This paper explores these associations a South London-based (UK) sample.The East London Community Health (SELCoH) study general population survey (N = 1,698) individuals aged 16+. was defined as ≥2 positive answers at the SCOFF questionnaire. Crude adjusted...
Background Identifying childhood predictors of binge eating and understanding risk mechanisms could help improve prevention detection efforts. The aim this study was to examine whether features attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well disturbances, predicted later in adolescence. Method We studied specific factors for the development during mid-adolescence among 7120 males females from Avon Longitudinal Study Parents Children (ALSPAC), a cohort children UK, using data...
ABSTRACT Introduction This study aimed to validate the SCOFF, an eating disorders (ED) screening questionnaire, in a multiethnic general population sample of adults. Method A two‐stage design was employed using South East London Community Health Study phases I and II data. total 1,669 participants were screened SCOFF SELCoHI, 145 administrated ED clinical interview SELCoHII. We explored diagnostic validity questionnaire restricting individuals with questionnaire. Results Sensitivity...
Abstract This study aims to investigate longitudinal patterns of psychopathology during the antenatal and postnatal periods among women with current (C‐ED) past (P‐ED) eating disorders. Women were recruited a prospective study: C‐ED ( n = 31), P‐ED 29) healthy control (HC; 57). Anxiety, depression ED symptoms measured at four time points: first/second trimester, third 8 weeks 6 months postpartum. Linear mixed effects models used test for group differences. P‐ED, in all diagnostic categories,...
Background Some people with eating disorders have difficulties social communication. However, no longitudinal evidence regarding the direction of this association exists. We investigated trajectories autistic traits across childhood and adolescence in adolescents without disordered behaviours early adolescence. Methods used data from Avon Longitudinal Study Parents Children. Our measure indicated presence any, monthly weekly (fasting, purging, dieting, binge eating) at age 14 years. Autistic...
BackgroundGlobally, more adolescents are having depressive symptoms than in the past. High BMI is a risk factor for symptoms, potentially acting via increased body dissatisfaction. Robust longitudinal evidence of these associations could help to inform preventive interventions, but such remains scarce. We investigated between at age 7 years and 14 (objective 1), dissatisfaction 11 2), depression 3). also extent which mediated association 4).MethodsThis study used data from Millennium Cohort...
Diagnostic criteria for eating disorders (ED) remain largely based on clinical presentations, but do not capture the full range of behaviours in population. We aimed to derive an empirically ED behaviour classification using behavioural and body mass index (BMI) indicators at three time-points adolescence, validate classes investigating prospective associations with adverse outcomes. Adolescents from Avon Longitudinal Study Parents Children (ALSPAC) provided data age 14 (n = 6615), 16 5888),...
In the context of growing prevalence childhood obesity, behaviors aimed at weight loss and their psychological burden might be increasing.To investigate whether weight-control perception, including association with depressive symptoms, has changed in 3 decades between 1986 2015.This study used data from repeated cross-sections successive longitudinal birth cohort studies. These included general population samples UK adolescents aged 14 to 16 years ongoing cohorts: British Cohort Study 1970...
Urban birth is associated with risk of non-affective psychoses, but the association subclinical positive and negative symptoms less clear, despite emerging evidence. Further extent to which these findings are confounded by polygenic scores (PRS) for schizophrenia also unknown.Using data from Avon Longitudinal Study Parents Children, linked census geographical indicators, we examined whether various indices urbanicity at were psychotic age 16 18 years, respectively. We used logistic...
Background There is a large body of evidence indicating that eating disorders (EDs) are characterized by particular neuropsychological profiles. We aimed to further explore whether impairments in functioning previously found ED groups present prior onset, or secondary the disorder. Method This first study children born mother with lifetime ED, who therefore at high risk developing an cohort sample. investigated intelligence and attention age 8 years ( n = 6201) working memory (WM) inhibition...
Loneliness is an important issue for mental health service users. However, it has not been a particularly prominent focus of recent research. This paper aimed to explore the severity loneliness among people leaving community crisis services, and identify factors associated with loneliness. A total 399 participants experiencing crises recruited research trial from services were included in this cross-sectional study. They completed eight-item measure University California at Los Angeles Scale...
Abstract Background The recorded incidence of eating disorders is elevated in people from higher socioeconomic positions, but self-reported disorder symptoms are more common those lower positions cross-sectional studies. Longitudinal studies investigating the role different indicators aetiology a range might avoid biases associated with use clinical samples have multiple limitations. We aimed to investigate association between early childhood and across adolescence. Method used data Avon...
Objective To investigate the associations between neonatal unit admission (NNU) and subsequent emotional behavioural difficulties during childhood adolescence. Design Longitudinal general population cohort study. Setting The Millennium Cohort Study: nationally representative UK-based cohort. Participants All children with exposure, outcome confounding data. Exposure NNU was identified at 9 months by asking parents whether their baby ‘taken to special care or intensive after birth’. Main...