Lone Schmidt

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Primary fields of research

Reproductive health, focus on infertility and involuntary childlessness, medically assisted reproduction and family formation after assisted reproduction.

Current research

• Programme coordinator (PI) for the research group, Reproductive Health, Section of Social Medicine
• Programme coordinator for The Copenhagen Multi-centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Programme. The COMPI group involves 20 junio and senior researchers from University of Copenhagen; Cardiff University, UK; Chapman University, CA; Porto University and Gomeira University, Portugal; University of Southern Denmark; Aalborg University. Collaboration with the fertility clinics at Odense University Hospital, the Regional Hospital Brædstrup and The State University Hospital in Copenhagen.
• Psychiatric disorders, infertility and medically assisted reproduction. PL: Lone Schmidt. Register-based national cohort study.
• Family histories and establishing of daily life after fertility treatment. PI: Lisbeth B Knudsen, Aalborg University. Collaboration project based on COMPI data.
• Collaborative projects on Stress and infertility
• Collaborative projects on solo-mothers - family formation without a father
• Forthcoming collaborative project on Prevention of infertility

Teaching

Medicine

• Medical sociology
• Supervision of bachelor and master theses

 BA and MA in Public Health

• Social epidemiology and public health
• Elective course: RFertility and health
• Supervisor of bachelor and master theses

 Supervision

• Reproductive health
• Infertility and assisted fertilization
• Prevention of reduced fertility
• Family formation

 

Selected publications

1. Published

   Family intentions and personal considerations on postponing childbearing in childless cohabiting and single women aged 35-43 seeking fertility assessment and counselling

   Birch Petersen, K., Hvidman, H. W., Lykke-Sylvest, Randi, Pinborg, Anja, Larsen, E. C., Macklon, K. T., Andersen, A. N. & Schmidt, Lone, 2015, In: Human Reproduction. 30, 11, p. 2563-2574 12 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Are repeated assisted reproductive technology treatments and an unsuccessful outcome risk factors for unipolar depression in infertile women?

   Sejbaek, C. S., Pinborg, Anja, Hageman, I., Forman, Julie Lyng, Hougaard, Charlotte Ørsted & Schmidt, Lone, 3 Aug 2015, In: Acta Obstetrica et Gynecologica. 94, p. 1048-1055 8 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   Sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes towards motherhood among single women compared with cohabiting women treated with donor semen: a Danish multicenter study

   Salomon, M., Lykke-Sylvest, Randi, Hansson, Helena, Andersen, A. N. & Schmidt, Lone, 2015, In: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 94, 5, p. 473-481 9 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   Costs of medically assisted reproduction treatment at specialized fertility clinics in the Danish public health care system: results from a 5-year follow-up cohort study

   Christiansen, T., Erb, K., Rizvanovic, A., Ziebe, S., Mikkelsen Englund, A. L., Hald, F., Boivin, J. & Schmidt, Lone, Jan 2014, In: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 93, 1, p. 64-72 9 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   Demographic and medical consequences of the postponement of parenthood

   Schmidt, Lone, Sobotka, T., Bentzen, J. G. & Nyboe Andersen, A., Feb 2012, In: Human Reproduction Update. 18, 1, p. 29-43 15 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   Fertilitet og sundhed

   Schmidt, Lone (ed.) & Pinborg, Anja (ed.), 2012, København: Munksgaard .

   Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review