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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 researchers

Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with Lucy

Email: L.Yardley@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Katherine Bradbury

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Katherine

Email: kjb1e08@soton.ac.uk

Dr Leanne Morrison

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Health Psychology 
  • Person-based intervention development 
  • Digital technology 
Connect with Leanne

Email: L.Morrison@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ingrid Muller BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA

Professor
Research interests
  • Self-management of long-term conditions
  • Behavioural health interventions
  • Digital health
Connect with Ingrid

Email: I.Muller@soton.ac.uk

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
Connect with Adam

Email: A.W.Geraghty@soton.ac.uk

Dr Rosie Essery

Senior Research Fellow
Connect with Rosie

Email: R.A.Essery@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ben Ainsworth

Associate Professor
Connect with Ben

Email: ben.ainsworth@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

The person-based approach to planning, optimising, evaluating and implementing behavioural health interventions
Leanne Morrison, Ingrid Muller, Lucy Yardley & Katherine Bradbury, 2018, The European Health Psychologist, 20(3), 464-469
Type: article
Using the Person-Based Approach to optimise a digital intervention for the management of hypertension
Katherine Bradbury, Kate Morton, Rebecca Band, Anne van Woezik, Rebecca Grist, Richard McManus, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2018, PLoS ONE, 13(5), 1-18
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196868
Type: article
Intervention planning for a digital intervention for self-management of hypertension: a theory-, evidence- and person-based approach
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
DOI: 10.1186/s13012-017-0553-4
Type: article
The person-based approach to enhancing the acceptability and feasibility of interventions
L. Yardley, B. Ainsworth, E. Arden-Close & I. Muller, 2015, Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 1(37), 1-7
DOI: 10.1186/s40814-015-0033-z
Type: article
The person-based approach to intervention development: application to digital health-related behavior change interventions
Lucy Yardley, Leanne Morrison, Katherine Bradbury & Ingrid Muller, 2015, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(1), e30
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4055
Type: article