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PhD (Hull University); Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society); Chartered Clinical Psychologist (British Psychological Society); Chartered Health Psychologist (British Psychological Society); Registered Clinical Psychologist (Health Profess
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- m.johnston@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Aberdeen Health Psychology Group
Institute of Applied Health Sciences
2nd floor, Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Marie Johnston is a Registered Health and Clinical Psychologist, and Professor Emeritus of Health Psychology at the University of Aberdeen.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, European Health Psychology Society and the Health Psychology and Public Health Network.
She conducts research on behaviour change in health and healthcare contexts and on disability (theory, measurement and intervention).
In 1986, she became the first chair of the Health Psychology section of the BPS and in 1992, the second president of the European Health Psychology Society. She has served on numerous BPS committees and in 1994 gained the BPS President's Award.
Her previous posts were at the University of St Andrews, London University (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine) and Oxford University, having completed her BSc at the University of Aberdeen and PhD at the University of Hull.
- Research
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Current Research
2016-2017 CSO. Supporting health snack choices in Scottish hospitals. A feasibility study. Allan, J., Johnston, M., Webb, S., McKenzie, F. £24,327.
2016-2019 CRUK. Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare (ASICA) in melanoma:A randomized patient focused trial of delivering the ASICA intervention as a means to earlier detection of recurrent and second primary melanoma. Murchie, P., Masthoff, J., Walter, F., Nicolson, M., Allan, J., Burrows, N., Norrie, J., Proby, C., Lee, A., Johnston, M. £287,355.80
2016-2020 Wellcome Trust. The Human Behaviour-Change Project: Building the science of behaviour change for complex intervention development. Michie, S., Johnston, M., Shawe-Taylor, J., Thomas, J., Kelly, M. £3,677,000.00
2016-2017 Global Health Exchange. The Change Exchange project. Byrne-Davis, L., Hart, J., Johnston, M.
2016-2018 Swedish Research Council Forte. Evaluation of a counseling intervention aimed at promoting labor market integration and mental health amongst young school drop-outs. A randomized controlled trial in Sweden. Rasmussen, F., Hasson, H., Lappalainen, R., Ghaderi, A. 3.33 SEK. £260,400
2015-2020 NIH Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) Resource and Coordinating Center. Davidson, K.W., Burg, M.M., Alcantara, C., Cheung, Y.K.K., Edmondson, D.E., Kronish, I.M., Shaffer, J., Schwartz, J.E., Summer, J.A., Brondolo, E., Falzon, A.L., Medina, V.M., Navarrete, S., Michie, S., Johnston, M., West, T., Bonanno, G.A. $ £
2014 - 2017 CRUK. Making results of smoking cessation trials more useful to policy and practice: Identifying the effective behavioural components of smoking cessation support provided to intervention and control groups by applying innovative methods for evidence syntheses. De Bruin, M., Johnston, M., Hartmann-Boyce, J., West, R., Michie, S., Bull, E., Viechtbauer, W. £498,882
2014-2015 HTA. Home-based health promotion for vulnerable older people. K Walters et al.£442,668.
2014 – 2015CSO Effect of outpatient pharmacists' non-dispensing roles on patient outcomes and healthcare professionals’ prescribing patterns. A Cochrane Review update and application of the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy. Watson, M., Johnston, M., de Bruin, M., Matheson, C., Bond, C., Bero,L., Nkansah, N. £143,606
2014-2016 MRC Developing methodology for designing and evaluating theory-based complex interventions: an ontology for linking behaviour change techniques to theory. Michie, S., Johnston, M. £585,772.
2014-2016 CSO. Development of interventions to reduce patient delay with symptoms of Acute Coronary Syndrome: identifying optimal content and mode of delivery. Farquharson, B., Williams, B., Smith, K., Dougall, N. Dombrowski, S., McGhee, J., Treweek, S., Jones, C., Rowland, C., Pringle, S., Johnston, M. £221,668
2012-2015 DiABETES UK. Overcoming barriers to high quality care in diabetes through professional behaviour change. Eccles, M., Presseau, J., Hawthorne, G., Sniehotta, F.,
Hunter, G.W., Steen, I.N., Deverill, M., Kaner, E., Francis, J., Johnston, M., Marko, E., Grimshaw, J. £381,506Funding and Grants
2010-2010 CSO Nursing Stress and patient care: Real-time investigation of the effect of nursingtasks and demands onpsychological and physiological stress andjob performance. Johnston, M, Johnston, D, Jones, Ricketts, Allan, Schofield £212,185.
2010-2011 CSO Repeat breast cancer surgery and risk of chronic post-surgical pain. Bruce, Heys, Thompson, Johnston, chambers, Scott, Wells. £61,337
2010-2012 NIHR HTA Selective Decontamination of the Digestive tract in critically ill patients treated in the Intensive Care Unit (The SuDDICU study). Project ref. 09/01/13.Francis JJ, Bellingan G (Co-PI), Campbell MK, Cuthbertson B, Eccles MP, Johnston M, MacLennan G, Ramsay CR, Rose L, Rowan K, Shulman R, Wilson P. £213,907
2009-2012ARC How do demographic, social, psychological and clinical factors affect a) the validity of health outcome measures and b) the relationships between constructs within the ICF model? An analysis in a community cohort of people with osteoarthritis. Johnston, M., Pollard, B., Dixon, D. £122,422
2010-2013 MRC Methods for strengthening evaluation and implementation: specifying components of behaviour change interventions. Michie, Abraham, Eccles, Francis, Hardeman, Johnston. £614,009.
2010-2013 CSO Improving Adherence to Medication in Stroke Survivors (IAMSS): pilot study. O'Carroll, Dennis, Johnston, Sudlow £224,878
2006-2012 CSO Research TrainingFellowship, Julia Allan.
2010-2012 Stroke Association. Research TrainingFellowship PhD student. Sarah Carroll
2007-2012 CSO Implementation of National Dentistry Guidance: Outcomes Study. Clarkson, Ramsay, Bonetti, Eccles, Eldridge, Francis, Grimshaw, Johnston, McKee, Michie, Norrie, Pitts, Rennie, Vale. £300,000.
2009 – 2011 CSO Research into the prevalence and causes of prescribing errors made by junior doctors. Bond, Ross, Lee, McLay, MacLeod, Johnston, Francis, Davey, Ker, Maxwell, Webb, McKay. £216,843
2009 – 2010 CSO Using pedometers to promote physical activity in patients after stroke: a pilot study. Mead, McMurdo, Greig, Johnston, Johnston, Sniehotta, Lewis. £58,274
2009-2011 Cancer Research UK "Prospective Cohort Study to Identify Risk Factors for Chronic Pain after Breast Cancer Surgery". Bruce, Heys, Johnston, chambers, Scott. £67,215
2008-2011 CSO Feasibility Study for a randomised controlled trial of a complex behavioural intervention to reduce weight in obese adults with additional risk factors for chronic disease. Sniehotta,Dombrowski, Johnston, Avenell, Ramsay, Araujo-Soares, Brown, Broom, Kulkarni. £62,744
2008-2010 Canada Prime Plus Selecting individual and organisational theories for interventions to change clinical practice. Grimshaw, Brouwers, Driedger, Eccles, Francis, Godin, Hanna, Hux, Johnston, Legare, Lemyre, Pomey, Sales, Zwarenstein.
2007-2010 Cancer Research UK Prospective cohort study to identify risk factors for the development of chronic pain after breast cancer surgery. Bruce, Heys, Chambers, Thompson, Scott. £188,572.
2007-2010 Cancer Research UK Reducing time to presentation with symptoms of lung cancer: phase II complex intervention study. Campbell, Smith, Wyke, Powell, Devereux, Johnston, Lee, Macleod, Nicolson, Ritchie, Murchie. £105,249
2007-2010 Diabetes UK Improving the delivery of care for patients with diabetes through understanding optimised team work and organisation in primary care. Eccles, Hawthorne, Johnston, Hunter, Steen, Francis, Eliovanio, Grimshaw. £553,367
- Publications
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What are the barriers to prescribing without error?: Theoretical domains framework interviews with junior doctors
United Kingdom Society for Behavioural MedicineContributions to Conferences: AbstractsA healthy contribution
Psychologist, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 890-892Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Randomised controlled feasibility trial of an evidence-informed behavioural intervention for obese adults with additional risk factors
PloS ONE, vol. 6, no. 8, e23040Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023040
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2187/1/Sniehotta_2011.pdf
Missed by and inch or a mile?: Predicting size of intention-behaviour gap from measures of executive control
Psychology & Health, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 635-650Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModifiable and fixed factors predicting quality of life in people with colorectal cancer
British Journal of Cancer, vol. 104, pp. 1697-1703Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2011.155
Exploring the relationships between International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) constructs of Impairment, Activity Limitation and Participation Restriction in people with osteoarthritis prior to joint replacement
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, vol. 12, 97Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing discrete choice experiments to inform randomised controlled trials: an application to chronic low back pain management in primary care
European Journal of Pain, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 531.e1-531.e10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.10.008
Mental practice with motor imagery in stroke recovery: randomized controlled trial of efficacy
Brain, vol. 134, no. 5, pp. 1373-1386Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awr077
How people present symptoms to health services: a theory-based content analysis
The British Journal of General Practice, vol. 61, no. 585, pp. 267-273Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp11X567090
Real time assessment of stress in telephone health services: cardiac consequences for nurses of stressful consultations
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 41, no. Suppl. 1, pp. S235Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSocial Justice: What has Health Psychology Contributed?
European Health Psychologist, vol. 13, pp. 3-12Contributions to Journals: Articles25 years of Health Psychology in the BPS
The PsychologistContributions to Journals: ArticlesApplying psychological theories to evidence-based clinical practice: identifying factors predictive of lumbar spine x-ray for low back pain in UK primary care practice
Implementation Science, vol. 6, pp. 55Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-55
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2394/1/Grimshaw_2011.pdf
Instrument development, data collection, and characteristics of practices, staff, and measures in the Improving Quality of Care in Diabetes (iQuaD) Study
Implementation Science, vol. 6, pp. 61Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-61
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2108/1/Eccles_2011.pdf
Potential Pain Management Programmes in primary care: A UK-wide questionnaire and Delphi survey of experts
Family Practice, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-48Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmq081
Strengthening evaluation and implementation by specifying components of behaviour change interventions: a study protocol Implementation Science: a study protocol
Implementation Science, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-8Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhat is an adequate sample size?: Operationalising data saturation for theory-based interview studies
Psychology & Health, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 1229-1245Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08870440903194015
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2654/1/Francis%25202009.pdf
Disability
Health Psychology. French, D., Vedhara, K., Kaptein, A., Weinman, J. (eds.). 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 318-328, 11 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersHealth-Care Professional Behaviour: Enhancing Evidence-Based Health Care
Health Psychology. French, D., Vedhara, K., Kaptein, A., Weinman, J. (eds.). 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 189-208, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersListening to patients: using verbal data in the validation of the Aberdeen Measures of Impairment, Activity Limitation and Participation Restriction (Ab-IAP)
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, vol. 11, 182Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-11-182
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3908/1/Listening_to_patients.pdf
Developing a nomenclature of behaviour change interventions
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 71-72Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-010-9106-9
Predicting activity limitations in orthopaedic patients from biomedical and behavioural models: replication and extension
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 17, no. Supp 1, pp. 158Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-010-9106-9
The translation research in a dental setting (TRiaDS) programme protocol
Implementation Science, vol. 5, 57Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-5-57
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2658/1/Clarkson%25202010.pdf
Applying psychological theories to evidence-based clinical practice: identifying factors predictive of placing preventive fissure sealants
Implementation Science, vol. 5, pp. 25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-5-25
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2387/1/Bonetti%25202010.pdf
Unintentional eating: what determines goal-incongruent chocolate consumption?
Appetite, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 422-425Contributions to Journals: Articles