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Dr Martyn Jones

Dr Martyn Jones is Associate Director of the SDHI and Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dundee. Martyn is the Martyn is the Dundee/St Andrews named academic in the £1 million, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Training Scheme (developed in partnership with the NHS Education for Scotland, Scottish Executive Health Department and the Health Foundation). Martyn in interested in developing research capability and capacity in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions and was a member of the writing team for a £3 Million bid for recent infrastructure monies involving SHEFC and the Scottish Executive. Martyn co-ordinates the Postgraduate Research Forum and Seminar series held in the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Dundee.

Martyn’s research activities focus on understanding and changing behaviour in the work setting and in patient care. Research examining the impact of the work environment on staff well-being is being carried out in collaboration with Professor Derek Johnston at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. This programme of research has included the screening of student nurses over a number of years (Jones & Johnston, 1997), the development of a new measure of student nurse stress, SNSI (Jones & Johnston, 1999), the development and evaluation of a stress management intervention set at an individual/interface level (Jones & Johnston, 2000b; Jones & Johnston, 2000c), the longitudinal analysis of the impact of "work climate" and managerial support on the physical and mental health of student nurses, the effects of curriculum innovation on student nurse well-being, the exploration of ambulatory methods of measuring work stress (Beedie, et al., 2004), and further developing the Student Nurse Stress Index.

Further patient centred research explores the impact of patient information on management of febrile convulsion by parents, exercise promotion in people with severe/profound learning disabilities and challenging behaviour (CSO grant, 2001), the development of organisational/service level strategies to help clients with learning disabilities access health promotion/primary health care services (CSO grant, 2002), cross-sample validity of the Intensive Care Questionnaire (ICEQ) between two independent critical care settings, and a randomised Controlled Trial comparing a self-Help cognitive behavioural programme (the Angina Plan) with standard practice for Angina patients admitted to hospital (CSO grant 2003).

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