Research within the Eating Disorders Team

Research within the EDT is carried out with the support of UCL Institute of Child Health. Many of the clinicians within the EDT have published recent research and are active in their fields.Current projects include:

The cost and cost-effectiveness of community-based models of care for child and adolescent anorexia nervosa (ICH R&D Ref: 10NR25) Dasha Nicholls, Sarah Byford et al.

An empirical study of selective eating phenotypes (ICH R&D Ref: 14BS03) Dasha Nicholls, Beth Watkins and Rachel Bryant-Waugh

Recovery from EDs: young sufferers' and parents' perspective (ICH R&D Ref: 12BS11) Francesca Emanuelli, Dasha Nicholls et al.

Does meaning matter in the recovery from AN? (ICH R&D: 11BS09) Cathy Troupp and Dasha Nicholls

Early intervention for eating disorders: a phase II study (ICH R&D Ref: 13NR18) Dasha Nicholls, Irene Yi, Beth Watkins, Ali Leipold, Lucy Harvey and Russell Viner

PROMISE (Paediatric Research in Obesity Multi-model Intervention and Service Evaluation) - Improving the assessment and management of obesity in UK children and adolescents (ICH R&D Ref: 09GP01)

Below is a list of selected recent publications (up to 3 years old) produced by members of the EDT:

2016

Nicholls, D., Statham, R., Costa, S., Micali, N., Viner, R. M. (2016). Childhood  risk factors for lifetime bulimic or compulsive eating by age 30 years in a British national birth cohort. Appetite, 105, 266-273.

Mair, R.,& Nicholls, D. (2016). Assessment and treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescents. Arch Dis Child, 101(12), 1168-1175.

O’Connor, G., Nicholls, D., Hudson, L., & Singhal, A.(2016).  Refeeding Low Weight Hospitalized Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. Nutr Clin Pract, 31(5), 681-689.

2015

Robinson, P. H., Nicholls, D. (Eds) Critical Care for Anorexia Nervosa: The Marsipan Guidelines in Practice. Springer International Publishing AG.
ISBN: 9783319081731

O’Connor, G., & Nicholls, D. (2015). ‘Eating Disorders’ in Clinical Paediatric Dietetics (4^th ed.). Ed Shaw V. Publisher: John Wiley and Sons.

White, B., Doyle, J., Colville, S., Nicholls, D., Viner, R. M., & Christie, D. (2015). Systematic review of psychological and social outcomes of adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery, and predictors of success. Clin Obes, 5(6), 312-324.

Wells, J., Haroun, D., Williams, J., Nicholls, D., Darch, T., Eaton, S., & Fewtrell, M. (2015). Body composition in young female eating disorder patients with severe weight loss and controls: evidence from the four-component model and evaluation of DXA. Eur J Clin Nutr. 69(12), 1330-1335.

Hudson L, O’Connor G. The role of the paediatric team in the management of children and young people with severe AN. In Critical Care for Anorexia Nervosa: The MARSIPAN guidelines in practice, ed. Robinson PH, Nicholls D. Springer, London 2015.

2014

Midgley, N., Holmes, J., Parkinson, S., Stapley, E., Eatough, V & Target, M. (2014). 'Just like talking to someone about like shit in your life and stuff, and they help you’: Hopes and expectations for therapy among depressed adolescents. Psychotherapy Research, 26(1), 11-21.

Holmes, J. (2014). Countertransference before Heimann: an historical exploration. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 62(4),603 -629.  [Winner of JAPA New Author Prize]

Holmes, J. (2014). Countertransference in qualitative research: a critical appraisal. Qualitative Research, 14(2), 166-183.

Hudson L. Body fat% is also a potentially poor individual measure for health in children. J Am Coll Nutr. 2014;33(2):91. doi: 10.1080/07315724.2014.891906.

Nicholls, D., & Barrett, E. (2014). Eating disorders in children and adolescents. Clinical Topics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Ed. Huline-Dickens, S. RCPsych Publications

Nicholls, D., Barrett, E., & Huline-Dickens, S. (2014). Atypical Early-Onset Eating Disorders. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. 20, 330-339.

Hudson LD, Kennedy A, Chapman S. The trouble with z-scores: response to Faje et al.'s paper: "Fracture risk and areal bone mineral density in adolescent females with anorexia nervosa". Int J Eat Disord. 2014 Jul;47(5):562. doi: 10.1002/eat.22262. Epub 2014 Mar 20.

2013

Holmes, J. (2013). A comparison of clinical psychoanalysis and research interviews. Human Relations, 66(9), 1183 -1199.

Holmes, J. (2013). Using psychoanalysis in qualitative research: countertransference-informed researcher reflexivity and defence mechanisms in two interviews about migration. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 10, 160-173.

Hudson, L. D., Cumby, C., Klaber, R. E., Nicholls, D. E., Winyard, P. J., & Viner, R. M. (2013). Low levels of knowledge on the assessment of underweight in children and adolescents among middle-grade doctors in England and Wales. Arch Dis Child, 98(4), 309-311.

Nicholls, D. (2013). ‘Aetiology’ in Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. 4th Edition’. Eds. Lask B and Bryant-Waugh R. Publisher: Routledge.

O'Connor, G., & Nicholls, D. (2013). Refeeding hypophosphatemia in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: a systematic review. Nutr Clin Pract, 28(3), 358-364.

Troupp, C. (2013).  Individual psychotherapy. In eds. Lask, B. and Bryant-Waugh, R. Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, 4th edition. London: Routledge. 
Troupp, C. (2013). ‘What do you want to get from coming here?’ Distinguishing patient generated outcome measures in CAMHS from a bespoke sandwich. Child and Family Clinical Psychology Review, 1(1).