Justin Presseau
Research Interests
- The use of social cognition models and theory to predict and change self-care and clinical-care health behaviour in at-risk and health-care professional populations
- The intersection of social cognition models and goal theory for predicting and changing health-related behaviours
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Biography
Justin is currently studying for his PhD in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
under the supervision of
Dr. Jill Francis,
Dr. Falko Sniehotta, and
Dr. Neil Campbell.
His PhD is using an augmented theoretical approach to investigate the impact that
competing goals have on providing evidence-based diabetes care in primary care.
Justin completed a Masters of Research degree in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) in 2007,
supervised by
Dr. Jill Francis and
Dr. Falko Sniehotta.
He also completed his undergraduate work at the University of Ottawa (Canada) in Psychology
before working as a research assistant to
Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw and
Dr. Ian Graham.
Major Research Activities
| Research activity |
Funding |
| Managing competing goals in evidence-based diabetes care:
extending theory and improving clinical practice |
University of Aberdeen Development Trust and KT ICEBeRG |
Selected Publications
- Presseau, J., Sniehotta, F.F., Francis, J.J., Little, B.R. (2008).
Personal projects analysis: Opportunities and implications for multiple goal assessment, theoretical integration, and behaviour change.
The European Health Psychologist, 10, 32-36.
- Francis, J., Grimshaw,
J., Zwarenstein, M., Eccles, M., Garfinkel, S., Godin, G.,
Johnston, M., O’Rourke, K., Presseau, J.,
Tetroe, J. (2007). Testing a TheoRY-informed MEssage
(‘TRY-ME’): a sub-trial within a randomised
controlled trial of printed education materials (the Ontario
Printed Educational Message (OPEM) trial) (Study Protocol).
Implementation Science 2:39.
- Graham, I.D. Logan, J., Bennett, C., Presseau,
J., O’Connor, A., Mitchell, S.L., Tetroe,
J., Cranney, A., Hebert, P., Aaron, S. (2007). Physicians’
intentions and use of three patient decision aids. BMC
Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 7:20.
- 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 Randomized Controlled Trial Of Printed Educational Materials
(The Ontario Printed Educational Message (OPEM)) to Improve
Referral and Prescribing Practices in Primary Care in Ontario,
Canada (Study Protocol). Implementation Science 2: 38.
- Presseau, J. (2007).
On the use of theory in Intervention Mapping.
The European Health Psychologist, 9, 82-84.
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Design/Content by Nicole Robinson & Justin Presseau
2006-2007 - All Rights Reserved
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