Staff details

Research interests
E-health especially the use of information by patients 

UoP Research group membership

Ageing and Rurality 
E-health 
Preventive and Supportive Care 
Sustainability, Society and Health  

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Glasgow
1988 Mohsen Janghorbani (PhD): A follow-up study to a well-population survey of cardiovascular disease in the West of Scotland.

1990 Frank Sullivan (PhD): The retention of patients in outpatient departments.

1990 Steven Oboegbulum (PhD): A case-control study of possible mechanisms of Salmonella infections in Scottish long stay hospitals.

1990 Teresa Paixao (PhD): A study of communicable disease surveillance.

1993 Mar Soler-Lopez (MSc by research). Shared-care schemes for chronic disease in the UK and their applicability to Spain.

1996 Fatima Al-Barwani (PhD): Development and Evaluation of a Patient Workstation.

2000 Mark Livingston (PhD): The use of scoring systems in intensive care.

2003 Charles Docherty (PhD): Development and evaluation of a multimedia system for enhancing the assessment skills of nurse tutors.

2003 Jenny Marsden (PhD): Personalised health promotion for osteoporosis.

Plymouth
2007 Sue Richardson (DoS, Sheena Asthana)
2008 Miriam McMullan. (co-supervisor, Susan Lea)

 

Grants & contracts

78 grants 1984-2007.

Grants via UoP since 2001 include

1. NHS RISC programme (Owens, Jones et al) (2007) £90k
2. Burdett Trust (Endacott, Sheaff, Jones) (2007)
3. NHS SDO programme (2003). Stakeholder consultation and policy context review on e-health £80,000.

4. Help the Aged (2003). Chiropody needs of older people. £31,000.

5. Plymouth City Council (2004). Evaluation of the free swimming programme. £20,000

Examples of grants pre 2001

1. ESRC/EPSRC People at the Centre of Commuunication and Information Technologies programme (2000). Investigation of the effect of tailored reports on anxiety £144,451.

2. NHS Enabling People Programme (1999). Multicentre study on the learning needs of clinicians. £36,000.

3. NHS Primary Secondary care Interface programme (1997). Randomised trial of computer-based education vs CPN based education for patients with schizophrenia living in the community £150,000.

4. Scottish Office (1996). Computer-based patient information in cancer. Does personalisation of the information using the medical record make a difference? £116,000

5. MRC (1996). Pilot study of personalised computer-based psychological treatment for anxiety in primary care £24,000.

 

Publications

Over 170 publications including (examples only):

 

1. Jones RB, Martinez R, Maramba I, Prestwich J, McCauley M, Farrand P, Williams C. Exploratory study of chat room motivational support for users of an Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of depression. (HC2008, April 2008 in press)
2. What Do Evaluation Instruments Tell Us About the Quality of Complementary Medicine Information on the Internet? Breckons M, Jones R, Morris J, Richardson J. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(1):e3 doi:10.2196/jmir.961

3. Jones R, Skirton H, McMullan M ,The feasibility of combining e-health for patients with e-learning for students using synchronous technologies. (Journal of Advanced Nursing 2006; 56 (1) 99-110)

4. Jones RB, Pearson J, Cawsey AJ, Bental D, Barrett A, White J, White CA, Gilmour WH. Effect of different forms of information produced for cancer patients on their use of the information, social support, and anxiety: randomised trial. BMJ 2006; 332: 942 – 948.

5. Janghorbani M, Stenhouse EA, Jones RB, Millward BA. Is neighbourhood deprivation a risk factor for gestational diabetes mellitus? Diabetic Medicine 2006; 23, 313–317.

6. Jones R, Rogers R, Roberts J, Callaghan L, Lindsey L, Campbell J, Thorogood M, Wright G, Gaunt N, Hanks C, Williamson GR. What Is eHealth (5): A Research Agenda for eHealth Through Stakeholder Consultation and Policy Context Review. J Med Internet Res 2005; 7(5):e54. http://www.jmir.org/2005/5/e54/

7. Richardson G, Eick SA, Jones RB. How is the indoor environment related to asthma: literature review. Journal of Advance Nursing 2005 52(3): 328-339.

8. Jones R, Pearson J, McGregor S, Barrett A, Harper Gilmour W, Atkinson JM, Cawsey AJ, McEwen J. Does writing a list help cancer patients ask relevant questions? Patient Educ Couns. 2002;47:369-71.

9. Jones RB, Pearson J, McGregor S, Cawsey A, Barrett A, Atkinson JM, Craig N, Gilmour WH, McEwen J. Randomised trial of personalised computer based information for cancer patients. Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2001:233-239. Published by International Medical Informatics Association, Stuttgart Germany (ISBN 3-7945-2126-9) (Republication of BMJ 1999;319:1241-1247)

10. Jones R, Atkinson JM, Coia DA, Paterson L, Morton AR, McKenna K, Craig N, Morrison J, Gilmour WH. Randomised trial of computer-based education for patients with schizophrenia, BMJ 2001:322:835-840.

11. Jones RB, Hampshire A, Tweddle S, Hill A, Moult B. The clinician’s role in meeting patient information needs: suggested learning outcomes. Medical Education 2001;35:565-571.

some examples pre 2001

1. Jones R, Tweddle S, Hampshire M, Hill A, Moult B, McGregor S. Patient-led learning for the clinical professions in fulfilling the information needs of patients. Final Report to the Enabling People Programme of the NHS. Published by NHS Information Authority, June 2000. Available on web (search via Google).

2. Jones R, Pearson J, McGregor S, Cawsey A, Barrett A, Atkinson JM, Craig N, Gilmour WH, McEwen J. Randomised trial of personalised computer based information for cancer patients. BMJ 1999;319:1241-1247.

3. Jones R, Pearson J, McGregor S, Cawsey A, Barrett A, Atkinson JM, et al. Cross sectional survey of patients’ satisfaction with information about cancer. BMJ 1999;319:1247-1248.

4. Bental DS, Cawsey AJ, Jones R. Patient Information Systems that Tailor to the Individual. Patient Education and Counseling, 1999; 36:171-180.

5. Jones RB, McConville J, Mason D, Macpherson, Naven L, McEwen J. Attitudes towards, and utility of, an integrated medical-dental patient-held record in primary care. BJGP 1999; 49:368-373.