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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Achieving Integrated Self-Directed Cancer Aftercare (ASICA) for melanoma: How a digital intervention to support total skin self-examination was used by people treated for cutaneous melanoma
BMC Cancer, vol. 21, 1217Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHealthy snacks in hospitals: testing the potential effects of changes in availability
Nutrition and Health, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 321-327Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProgress in conducting and reporting behaviour change intervention studies: a prospective retrospection
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 567-581Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new tool for specifying behavioural interventions: The behaviour change intervention ontology
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S33-S33Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
Behavioral intervention to increase skin examination following melanoma: Development and evaluation
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S126-S126Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
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Human behaviour-change project: Novel tools for cross-disciplinary working in behavioural medicine
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S32-S33Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
Specifying intervention delivery and content
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S33-S33Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
The behavior change intervention ontology: Vision and development
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S30-S31Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
Theory and Techniques in Developing and Evaluating Behavioural Interventions
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S43-S44Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
Underreporting of comparators in behavioural intervention trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of smoking cessation interventions
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S44-S45Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
Variability and effectiveness of control group interventions in smoking cessation trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. SUPPL 1, pp. S48-S49Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
What Competences Are Required to Deliver Person-Person Behaviour Change Interventions: Development of a Health Behaviour Change Competency Framework
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 308-317Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDevelopment of an online tool for linking behavior change techniques and mechanisms of action based on triangulation of findings from literature synthesis and expert consensus
Translational Behavioral Medicine, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1049-1065Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibaa050
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Are Rurality, Area Deprivation, Access to Outside Space, and Green Space Associated with Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic?: A Cross Sectional Study (CHARIS-E)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 8, 3869Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDelivering Behaviour Change Interventions: Development of a Mode of Delivery Ontology
Wellcome open research, vol. 5, pp. 1-26Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDelivering Behaviour Change Interventions: Development of a Mode of Delivery Ontology [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Wellcome open research, vol. 5, pp. 1-24Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/WELLCOMEOPENRES.15906.1
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Protocol of the COVID-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland (CHARIS) study: Understanding changes in adherence to transmission-reducing behaviours, mental and general health, in repeated cross-sectional representative survey of the Scottish population
BMJ Open, vol. 11, no. 2, e044135Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInvestigating Which Behaviour Change Techniques Work for Whom in Which Contexts Delivered by What Means: Proposal for an International Collaboratory of Centres for Understanding Behaviour Change (CUBiC)
British Journal of Health Psychology, vol. 26, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMeasurement in Health Psychology Research and Practice
Oxford Bibliographies in PsychologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0270
Representation of behaviour change interventions and their evaluation: Development of the Upper Level of the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Wellcome open research, vol. 5, 123Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow can better monitoring, reporting and evaluation standards advance behavioural public policy?
Policy & Politics, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 161-179Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/030557320X15955052119363
Outcome Prediction from Behaviour Change Intervention Evaluations using a Combination of Node and Word Embedding
Contributions to Journals: Conference ArticlesThe StrokeCog study: development and description of a cognition-focused psychological intervention to address cognitive impairment following stroke
Psychology & Health, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 782-809Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.1820009
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Underreporting of the active content of behavioural interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials of smoking cessation interventions
Health Psychology Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 195-213Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOntologies relevant to behaviour change interventions: a method for their development
Wellcome open research, vol. 5, 126Contributions to Journals: Articles