Publications

Centre for Health Psychology Recent Publications

This page lists selected publications from members of the Centre for Health Psychology which have been published within the last three years.  For further details, and more publications please visit individual staff webpages.

Besenius, C.., Clark-Carter, D. & Nolan, P. (in press) Health professionals’ attitudes to depot injection antipsychotic medication: a systematic review. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Boath, E.& Henshaw, C. (2008). Women’s Health: postnatal depression. British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 2, 127-131.

Boath, E.H.,Moss, B., Buckley, S.L. & Colgan, A.J. (2009) The fount of all knowledge: A Delphi study to determine the training required to involve service users and carers in health and social care education and training. Social Work Education, 28(5), 562-572.  See also Corrigendum Social Work Education, 28(8) 940.

Buckley, E.J., Sanderson, P., & White, D.G. (2007). Health Needs of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community Extend Beyond Sexual Health, Gay & Lesbian Psychology Review 8, 116-126.

Buckley, E.J., White, D.G., Morris, C., Elsmore, M.,  Morrall, I. A., Silcox, P.,  Jones, P., Pugh, R.N & Sanderson, P. (2010) The Effects of Community-Based Sexual Health Testing and Health Promotion on Gay Men’s Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviour, International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 48(4), 123-8.

Buckley, E.J. & White, D.G. (2007). Review of the Role of External Contributors in School Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Education, Health Education. 17, 42-62.

Bull, J & Grogan, S. (2010) Children having spinal surgery to correct Scoliosis: A qualitative study of parents’ experiences. Journal of Health Psychology,15, 299-309.

Chambers, R.,Boath, E.H. & Rogers, D. (2007). Clinical effectiveness and clinical governance made easy. 4th edition. Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd.

Clark-Carter, D. (in press) Measures of Central Tendency. In E. Baker, P. Peterson & B. McGaw (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd Edn), Elsevier.

Clark-Carter, D.(2010) Quantitative psychological research: The complete student’s companion. Hove: Psychology Press.

Clark-Carter, D. (2010) Quantitative research methods: Gathering and making sense of numbers.  In P.M. Roberts & H.M. Priest (Eds) Healthcare Research: a handbook for students and practitioners.  (pp 130-149).  Wiley

 
Clark-Carter, D. (in press) Effect size and statistical power in psychological research. Irish Journal of Psychology.

Clark-Carter, D. (2007) Effect size and statistical power in psychological research. Irish Journal of Psychology.  28, 3-12.

  
Dodd, L. & Forshaw, M. (2010) ’Assessing the Efficacy of Appearance-Focused Interventions to Prevent Skin Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Literature’, Health Psychology Review, 4(02), pp. 93-111.

Dovey, T. M., Clark-Carter, D., Boyland, E. J., Halford, J. C. G. (2009) A guide to analysing Universal Eating Monitor data: Assessing the impact of different analysis techniques. Physiology & Behavior, 96, 78–84

Duncan, M. J., Al-Nakeeb, Y., Nevill, A. M., &Jones, M. V.(2006). Body dissatisfaction, body fat and physical activity in British children. International Journal of Paediatric Obesity, 1, 89-95.

 
Elwell, L., Grogan, S. & Coulson, N. (2010). Adolescents living with cancer: The role of computer-mediated support groups, Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 236-248.

 
Forshaw, M.J & Hansen (in press). The undergraduate research project. In D. Upton and A. Trapp (Eds.) Teaching Psychology in Higher Education. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Fry, G., Grogan, S., Gough, B., & Conner, M. (2009). Smoking in the lived world: How young people make sense of the social role cigarettes play in their lives. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47,763-780.

Gratton, L., Povey, R. & Clark-Carter D. (2007) Promoting children’s fruit and vegetable consumption: Interventions using the Theory of Planned Behaviour as a framework. British Journal of Health Psychology. 12, 639-650

Grogan, S.,Flett, K., Clark-Carter, D., Gough, B,  Davey, R., Richardson, D. & Rajaratnam, G. (2010). Women Smokers’ Experiences of an Age-appearance Anti-smoking Intervention: A Qualitative Study, British Journal of Health Psychology, available online December 6 2010 DOI: 10.1348/2044-8287.002006

 
Grogan, S., Fry, G., Gough, B., & Conner, M. (2009). Smoking to stay thin or giving up to save face. Young men and women talk about appearance concerns and smoking. British Journal of Health Psychology, 14,175-186.

 
Grogan, S., Conner, M., Fry, G., Gough, B., & Higgins, A. (2009). Gender differences in smoking: A longitudinal study of beliefs predicting smoking in 11-15 year olds. Psychology & Health, 24, 301-316.

 
Grogan, S. (2008) Body Image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and children (second edition). New York: Routledge

Grogan, S., Hartley, L., Fry, G, Conner, M & Gough, B. (2010). Appearance Concerns and Smoking in Young Men and Women: Going Beyond Weight Control, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 3, 261-269.

Grogan, S. (2010). Gender and Body Image: Implications for Promoting Body Satisfaction, Sex Roles, 63, 757-765.

Hale, S., Grogan, S. & Willott, S. (2010). Male GPs views on men seeking medical help: A qualitative study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 697-713.

Hardy, S. & Grogan, S. (2009). Preventing disability through exercise; Investigating Older Adults’ Influences and Motivations to Engage in Physical Activity. Journal of Health Psychology, 14, 1036-1046.

 
Hassan, J. Grogan, S. Clark-Carter, D., Richards, H. & Yates, V. M. (2009) The individual health burden of acne: Appearance-related distress in male and female adolescents and adults with back, chest and facial acne. Journal of Health Psychology.

Hughes, A., Galbraith, D. & White, D. (2011) Perceived Competence: A Common Core for Self-Efficacy and Self-Concept?  Journal of Personality Assessment, 93(3): 278

 
Hulme, J. & Forshaw, M. (2009). Effectiveness of feedback provision for undergraduate psychology students. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 8, 34-38.

 
Jones, M.V., &Sheffield, D.(2007). The impact of game outcome on the well-being of athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 54-65.

 
Joseph, A.T., Pallan, M.J., Buckley, E.J., Pugh, N., White, D.G., Morrall, I.A., Morris, C., Chandramani, S. (2007). Syphilis outbreak in Walsall: lessons for control and prevention, International Journal of STD & AIDS, 18, 55-57.

 
Lee, H., Lubek, I., Pollock, G., et al. (2010).  Creating new career pathways to reduce poverty, illiteracy and health risks, while transforming and empowering Cambodian women's lives. Journal of Health Psychology. Special Section on Poverty Reduction. 982-992.

McCarthy, P. J.,Jones, M. V.,& Clark-Carter, D. (2008). Understanding enjoyment in youth sport: A developmental perspective. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 9, 142-156

McCarthy, P., Jones, M. & Clark-Carter, D. (2008) Sources of youth sport enjoyment: A developmental analysis. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 9, 142-156

 
Meads, C., Buckley, E.J. & Sanderson, P. (2007). Ten years of lesbian health survey research in the UK West Midlands. BMC Public Health, 7(251).

Moss B, Boath E, Sullivan W & Lewis E. (2010) Upskilling the Skills Lab: social work students and service users and carers views of the skills lab.  Social Work Education. 20(3), 230-243

Mudge, E. Spanou, C. & Price, P. (2008). A focus group study into patients' perception of chronic wound pain Wounds UK 4(2).

 
Newson, L. & Forshaw, M. (in press). Health Psychologists in the NHS. Health Psychology Update.

Patel S, Peacock S. M., McKinley R. K., Clark-Carter D., & Watson, P. J. (2009) General Practitioners' perceptions of the unmet needs for South Asian long term pain patients: A qualitative enquiry. Journal of Health Psychology , 14, 909-918

 
Patel, S., Peacock, S., McKinley, R, Clark-Carter, D., & Watson, P. (2008) General Practitioners' experience of managing chronic pain in a South Asian community. Family Practice.

Povey, R. & Clark-Carter, D. (2007) Diabetes and Healthy Eating: A Systematic Review of the Literature. The Diabetes Educator. 33, 931-959.

Pullen, S., Povey, R. and Grogan, S. (2009). Deciding to attend cardiac rehabilitation: A female perspective.  International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 16, 4, 207-217.

 
Reardon, R. & Grogan. S. (2010). Women's reasons for seeking breast reduction: A qualitative investigation, Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 31-41.

Sandhu, H., Singleton, L., Adams, A., Clark-Carter, D. & Kidd, J. (2009) The impact of gender dyads on doctor-patient communication: a systematic review. Patient Education and Counseling, 76, 348–355

Spanou, C, Simpson SA, Hood K, Edwards A, Cohen D, Rollnick S, Carter B, McCambridge J, Moore L, Randell E, Pickles T, Smith C, Lane C, Wood F, Thornton H, and Butler CC. (2010).  Preventing disease through opportunistic, rapid engagement by primary care teams using behaviour change counselling (PRE-EMPT): protocol for a general practice-based cluster randomised trial. BMC family practice,  1, 69.

Williams, C.E., Povey, R.C. & White, D.G. (2008) Predicting women’s intentions to use pain relief medication during childbirth using the Theory of Planned Behaviour and Self-Efficacy Theory. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 26(3), 168-179.