Publication List

In Press

Eccles MP, Francis J, Foy R, Johnston M, Bamford C, Grimshaw JM, Hughes J, Lecouturier J, Steen N, Whitty PM. (in press). Improving professional practice in the disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia: A modeling experiment to evaluate a theory based intervention. International Journal of Behavioural Medicine.

Francis JJ, Wileman S, Bekker, Barton, Campbell M, Ramsay C. (in press). Beliefs about surgery: Development and validation of an instrument to assess cognitive representations about surgery, in the context of a chronic illness. Psychology and Health.

Francis JJ, Eccles MP, Johnston M, Whitty P, Grimshaw J, Kaner E, Smith L, Walker A. (in press). Explaining the effects of a randomised controlled trial to implement evidence-based diabetes care. Implementation Science.

Francis JJ, Stockton C, Eccles MP, Johnston M, Cuthbertson BH, Grimshaw JM, Hyde C, Tinmouth A, Stanworth SJ. (in press). Evidence-based selection of theories for designing behaviour change interventions: Using methods based on theoretical construct domains to understand clinicians' blood transfusion behaviour. British Journal of Health Psychology.

2009

Eccles MP, Hawthorne G, Johnston M, Hunter M, Steen N, Francis J, Hrisos S, Elovainio M, Grimshaw JM. (2009). Improving the delivery of care for patients with diabetes through understanding optimised team work and organisation in primary care. Implementation science, 4, 22.

2008

Kolehmainen N, Francis JJ, McKee L. (2008). To provide or not to provide treatment? That is the question. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71, 12, 510-522.

Entwistle V, Prior M, Skea Z, Francis JJ. (2008). Involvement in treatment decision-making: its meaning to people with diabetes and implications for conceptualisation. Social Science & Medicine, 66, 362-375.

Francis H.M, Clarke K.A, Steer C.B, Francis JJ, Underhill C.R. (2008). Attitudes of advanced Australian medical oncology trainees to rural practice. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 4, 34-41.

Grant A, Wileman SM, Ramsay C, Bojke L, Epstein D, Sculpher M, Kilonzo M, Vale L, Francis JJ, Mowat A, Krukowski Z, Campbell M, on behalf of the The REFLUX Trial Group. (2008). The place of minimal access surgery amongst people with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease – a UK collaborative study. The REFLUX Trial. Health Technology Assessment, 12, 1-205.

Hrisos S, Eccles M, Johnston M, Francis JJ, Kaner EFS, Steen N and Grimshaw J. (2008). Developing the content of two behavioural interventions. Using theory-based interventions to promote GP management of upper respiratory tract infection without prescribing antibiotics #1. BMC Health Services Research, 8:11.

Hrisos S, Eccles M, Johnston M, Francis JJ, Kaner EFS, Steen N and Grimshaw J. (2008). An intervention modelling experiment to change GPs' intentions to implement evidence-based practice: using theory-based interventions to promote GP management of upper respiratory tract infection without prescribing antibiotics #2. BMC Health Services Research, 8:10.

Langston AL, Johnston M, Francis JJ, Robertson C, Campbell MK, Entwistle V, Marteau T, MacLennan G, Weinman J, McCallum M, Miedzybrodzka Z, Charnock K, Ralston S. (2008). Protocol for stage 2 of the GaP study (genetic testing acceptability for Paget’s disease of the bone): a questionnaire study to investigate whether relatives of people with Paget’s disease would accept genetic testing and preventive treatment if they were available. BMC Health Services Research, 8:116.

Lecouturier J, Bamford C, Hughes J, Francis JJ, Foy R, Eccles M, Johnston M, Eccles MP. (2008). Appropriate disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia: identifying the key behaviours of ‘best practice’. BMC Health Services Research, 8:95.

McKenzie J.E, French S.D, O'Connor D.A, Grimshaw J.M., Mortimer D, Michie S, Francis J, Spike N, Schattner P, Kent P.M, Buchbinder R, Green S.E. (2008). IMPLEmenting a clinical practice guideline for acute low back pain evidence-based manageMENT in general practice (IMPLEMENT): cluster randomised controlled trial study protocol. Implementation Science, 3:11.

Michie S, Johnston M, Francis JJ, Hardeman W, Eccles MP. (2008). From theory to intervention: mapping theoretically derived behavioural determinants to behaviour change techniques. Applied Psychology: An International Review. Special Issue on “Conceptualizing Theory-Based Health Behavior Change Research”. Applied Psychology: an international review.

2007

Akl EA, Treweek S, Foy R, Francis J, Oxman AD, on behalf of the ReBEQI group. (2007). NorthStar, a support tool for the design and evaluation of quality improvement interventions in healthcare. Implementation Science, 2:19.

Cleland J, Francis J, Watson M, Inch J, Bond C. Using theory to improve communication: designing a communication skills training package for medicine counter assistants. (2007). International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 15, 79-81.

Eccles M, Johnston M, Hrisos S, Francis J, Grimshaw J, Steen N, Kaner E. (2007). Translating clinicians’ beliefs into implementation interventions (TRACII): a protocol for an intervention modeling experiment to change clinicians’ intentions to implement evidence-based practice. Implementation Science, 2:27.

Foy R, Bamford C, Francis J, Johnston M, Lecouturier J, Eccles MP, Steen I, Grimshaw J. (2007). Which factors explain variation in intention to disclose a diagnosis of dementia? A theory-based survey of mental health professionals. Implementation Science, 2:31.

Foy R, Francis JJ, Johnston M, Eccles M, Lecouturier J, Bamford C, Grimshaw J. (2007). The development of a theory-based intervention to promote appropriate disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia. BMC Health Services Research, 7:207.

Francis J, Grimshaw J, Zwarenstein M, Eccles M, Shiller S, Godin G, Johnston M, O’Rourke K, Presseau J, Tetroe J. (2007). Testing a TheoRY-inspired MEssage (‘TRY-ME’): a sub-trial within the Ontario Printed Educational Message (OPEM) trial [Registration number ISRCTN72772651]. Implementation Science, 2:39 ( 26 November 2007).

Grimshaw J, Zwarenstein M, Tetroe J, Godin G, Graham I, Lemyre L, Eccles M, Johnston M, Francis J, Hux J, O’Rourke K, Légaré F, Presseau J. (2007). Looking Inside the Black Box: A Theory Based Process Evaluation Alongside A Randomised Controlled Trial Of Printed Educational Materials (The Ontario Printed Educational Message (OPEM)) Trial [Registration number ISRCTN72772651]. Implementation Science, 2:38 (26 November 2007).

Johnston M, Bonetti D, Joice S, Pollard B, Morrison V, Francis JJ, MacWalter R. (2007). Recovery from disability after stroke as a target for a behavioural intervention: Results of a randomised controlled trial. Disability & Rehabilitation, 29, 1117–1127.

Rodgers H, Francis JJ, Brittain K, Robinson AL. (2007). Who cares? Caring for the carers of stroke patients. Disability and Rehabilitation, 29, 425-427.

Watson M, Cleland J, Inch J, Bond C, Francis J. (2007). Theory-based communication skills training for medicine counter assistants to improve consultations for non-prescription medicines. Medical Education, 41:450-9.

2006

Eccles MP, Hrisos S, Francis J, Kaner EFS, Dickinson HO, Beyer F, Johnston M. (2006). Do self-reported intentions predict clinicians’ behaviour: a systematic review. Implementation Science, 1:28.

Francis JJ, Boldero JM, Sambell NL. (2006). Self lines: A new, psychometrically sound, ‘user-friendly’ idiographic technique for assessing self-discrepancies. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30, 69-84. PDF

The Improved Clinical Effectiveness through Behavioural Research Group (ICEBeRG). (2006). Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions. Implementation Science, 1:4.

2005

Boldero JM, Moretti MM, Bell RC, Francis JJ. (2005). Self-discrepancies and negative affect: A primer on when to look for specificity, and how to find it. Australian Journal of Psychology 57, 139-147.

Foy R, Foot B, Francis J, Chakravarthy U, Wormald R. (2005) Trends in the provision of photodynamic therapy and clinician attitudes: a tracker survey of a new health technology. BMC Health Services Research, 5: 34. HTML PDF

Foy R, Walker A, Ramsay C, Penney G, Grimshaw J, Francis J. (2005). Theory-based identification of barriers to quality improvement: induced abortion care. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 17, 1-9.

Robinson AL, Francis JJ, James PJ, Tindle N, Greenwell K, Rodgers H. (2005). Caring for carers of people with stroke: developing a complex intervention following the Medical Research Council framework. Clinical Rehabilitation, 19, 560–571.

2002

Boldero JM, Francis JJ. (2002). Goals, standards, and the self: Reference values serving different functions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 232-241.

Francis JJ, Boldero JM, Newson SA. (2002). Looking at family life and looking back: The links between retrospective self-discrepancies and emotional health in older age. Journal of Family Studies, 8, 165-180.

2000

Boldero J, Francis J. (2000). The relation between self-discrepancies and emotion? The moderating roles of self-guide importance, location relevance, and social self-domain centrality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 38-52.

1999

Boldero J, Francis J. (1999). Ideals, oughts, and self-regulation: Are there qualitatively distinct self-guides? Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2, 343-355.

Editorial Activities

- Action Editor, British Journal of Health Psychology
- Editorial Board, Personality and Social Psychology Compass (Health Section)