Research

• Clinical health psychology (particularly adjustment to chronic conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease)
• Health professional behaviour change
• Secondary traumatisation in (health) professionals
  
  

Recent Publications

2009

2008

Cheater F, Baker R, Spiers N, Wailoo A, Gillies C, Robertson N and Cawood C (2006).
A cluster randomised control trial of the effectiveness of audit and feedback and educational outreach on improving nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Medical Care, 44(6), 542-551.

• Atherton R and Robertson N (2006).
  Psychological adjustment to lower limb amputation.
  Disability and Rehabilitation, 28, 1201-1209.
• Robertson N (2006).
  Unexplained chest pain: A review of psychological conceptualisations and treatment efficacy.
  Psychology, Health and Medicine, 11(2), 255-263.
• Shaw, B, Cheater, F, Baker, R, Hearnshaw, HM, Flottorp, S and Robertson, N (2005).
  Tailored interventions to overcome identified barriers to change; effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.
  Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews, 3.
• Lord S and Robertson N (2005).
  The role of patient appraisal and coping in predicting distress in IVF.
  Journal of Infant and Reproductive Psychology, 23, 1-15.
• Cheater F, Baker R, Hearnshaw H, Robertson N, Hicks N, Oxman A and Flottorp S (2004).
  Tailored interventions to overcome identified barriers to change: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes (Protocol for a Cochrane review). In The Cochrane Library, Issue 1. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
• Robertson N, Burden AC, Burden M and Ceaser K (2003) .
  Psychological adjustment and coping in visual loss associated with diabetes: a longitudinal study.
  Diabetic Medicine, 20, 26.
• Dixon-Woods M, Regan J, Robertson N, Young B and Cordle C (2002).
  Teaching and learning about human sexuality in undergraduate medical education. 
  Medical Education, 36, 432-440.
• Baker RH, Reddish S, Robertson N and Hearnshaw H (2001).
  Management of depression. Authors’ response to Curtis Jenkins, G.
  British Journal of General Practice, 51, 933.
• Baker RH, Reddish S, Robertson N, Hearnshaw H and Jones B (2001).
  Randomised controlled trial of tailored strategies to implement guidelines for the management of patients with depression in general practice. 
  British Journal of General Practice, 51, 737-741.
• Robertson N (2001). 
  Establishing practice based guidelines.  In Davies GM and T Dalgliesh (Eds). 
  Recovered memories: Seeking The Middle Ground (pp 203-218).  Chichester, John Wiley.
• Hearnshaw H, Khunti K and Robertson N (2000).
  Teaching the method of academic detailing using an experiential workshop to improve compliance to guidelines.  Journal of Clinical Governance, 8, 1, 37-40.

• Grants

• April 2008 – July 2008 -£31,311 from National Research Ethics Service to undertake a qualitative analysis of REC decisions about studies relating to incapacity before and after the Mental Capacity Act (2007) (with Prof M Dixon-Woods, Ms E Angell and Prof R Ashcroft)

• February 2004 - January 2005  - £32,987 from Medisearch to explore monitoring of mortality rates in primary care for quality improvement(with Professor R Baker (lead), Professor A Rashid, Dr J Allen, Professor D Jones and Dr David Turner).
• August 2000 -April 2002
• £47,247 from Diabetes UK to research psychological adjustment to, and coping with, visual loss associated with diabetes (N Robertson (lead) with Dr A C Burden and Ms M Burden).
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