elderly care and community medicine
Name: Miss Christina Jones BA, MSc
Academic position: PhD Student & Research Assistant
Research area: Health Psychology/Allergy/Asthma/Research Methods
Contact details:
Room 321
Mayfield House
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
University of Brighton
Brighton BN1 9PH
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1273 644587
Fax: +44 (0)1273 644440
E-mail:
Biography:
- PhD, Division of Primary Care & Public Health, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, 2008 – Present
- Research Assistant, Division of Primary Care & Public Health, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, 2007 – Present
- MSc Health Psychology , University of Sussex, 2007
- BA (Hons) Social Psychology, University of Sussex, 2005
Teaching focus:
I will be teaching quantitative research methods on the undergraduate Social Science and Research Methods course (Module SS103) and the Research Project course (Module SS238) at the School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton. I have also given a lecture on assessments for tailoring health care on the MSc Health Psychology course Conducting Health Psychology Research (Module M10) at the University of Surrey.
Research focus:
My main research interests are in the application of social cognition models to the understanding of health-related behaviours such as adherence to self-care regimens in adolescents and young adults with anaphylaxis. I have also been investigating the effects of written emotional disclosure on lung function and quality of life in adults with asthma.
Grants:
Awarded the European Academy for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (2009) travel grant
Professional memberships:
- European Academy for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI) 2009 – Present
- British Psychological Society (BPS) 2008 – Present
- British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI) 2008 – Present
- Division of Health Psychology (DHP) 2008 – Present
Key/recent publications:
Papers:
Theadom, A., Smith, H. E., Yorke, J., Hankins, M., Apfelbacher, C. J, Jones, C. J, Horne, R., Bowskill, R., & Frew, A. J. (2009). Written emotional disclosure for asthma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 2.
Abstracts:
Jones, C. J., Smith, H. E., Frew, A. F., & Llewellyn, C. D. (2009). A systematic review of studies assessing professionals’ and patients’ knowledge and skills in the use of self-injectable epinephrine. Allergy, 64 (supp 90), 69.*
Jones, C. J., Theadom, A., Smith, H. E., Hankins, M., Bowskill, R., Horne, R., & Frew, A. J. (2008). Writing about emotional experiences to improve lung function and quality of life in patients with asthma: 3-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial. Thorax, 63 (supp VII), S36.
Posters:
Jones, C. J., Smith, H. E., Frew, A. F., & Llewellyn, C. D. (2009). A systematic review of studies assessing health professionals’ and patients’ knowledge and skills in the use of auto-injectable epinephrine. JMA Poster Presentation, European Academy for Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Warsaw, Poland.*
Smith, H. E., Jones, C. J., Theadom, A., Horne, R., Bowskill, R., Hankins, M., & Frew, A. J. (2009). Writing about emotional experiences reduces β-agonist use in patients with asthma – 3-month follow up of a randomised controlled trial. Poster Presentation, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Washington, DC.
Jones, C.J., Theadom, A., Smith, H. E., Horne, R., Bowskill, R., Hankins, M., & Frew, A. J., (2008). Writing about emotional experiences to improve lung function in patients with asthma - a randomised controlled trial. Poster Presentation, North American Primary Care Research Group, Puerto Rico.
*Prize awarded