Research project

Person Based Approach

Project overview

The Person-based Approach (PBA) focuses on understanding and accommodating the perspectives of the people who will use an intervention, in order to improve uptake, adherence and outcomes. The PBA engages with end-users at all stages of development to iteratively improve the intervention

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Other researchers

Dr Katherine Bradbury

Principal Research Fellow
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Dr Leanne Morrison

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Health Psychology 
  • Person-based intervention development 
  • Digital technology 
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Dr Ingrid Muller BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Self-management of long-term conditions
  • Behavioural health interventions
  • Digital health
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Dr Adam Geraghty BSc MSc PhD CPsychol FHEA

Assoc Prof Psychology & Behavioural Med

Research interests

  • Self-management of pain and other chronic symptoms/conditions
  • Mental health
  • Digital interventions for primary care and public health
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Dr Rosie Essery

Senior Research Fellow
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Dr Ben Ainsworth

Associate Professor
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Research outputs

Katherine Bradbury, Mary Steele, Teresa Corbett, Adam Geraghty, Adele Krusche, Elena D. Heber, Stephanie Easton, Tara Cheetham-Blake, Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz, Andre Matthias Muller, Laura J. Wilde, Kirsten Smith, Liz Payne, Karmpaul Singh, Roger Bacon, Tamsin Burford, Kevin Summers, Lesley Turner, Alison Richardson, Eila Watson, Claire Foster, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2019, npj Digital Medicine, 1-13
Type: article
Rebecca Band, Katherine Bradbury, Kate Morton, Carl May, Susan Michie, Francis S. Mair, Elizabeth Murray, Richard J. McManus, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2017, Implementation Science, 12, 1-13
Type: article