Professor Marie Johnston

Professor Marie Johnston The University of Aberdeen School of Medicine & Dentistry Emeritus Professor work +44 (0)1224 438102 work fax 01224 554580 pref m.johnston@abdn.ac.uk pref Aberdeen Health Psychology Group Institute of Applied Health Sciences College of Life Sciences and Medicine 2nd floor, Health Sciences Building Foresterhill ABERDEEN, AB25 2ZD

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Biography

 

Marie Johnston is a Registered Health and Clinical Psychologist,  and Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Aberdeen.  She is a Fellow of the BPS, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences and Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.  She conducts research on disability (theory, measurement and intervention) and on behaviour change in health and healthcare contexts.   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.

 

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Research Grants

2010-2010  CSO  Nursing Stress and patient care:  Real-time investigation of the effect of nursing tasks 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

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