Joanne Woodford
Researcher (leave of absence) at Department of Women's and Children's Health; CIRCLE - Complex Intervention Research in Health and Care
- Telephone:
- +46 70 787 46 84
- E-mail:
- joanne.woodford@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA - Leave of absence:
- - 2026-06-30
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Women's and Children's Health; CIRCLE - Complex Intervention Research in Health and Care
- E-mail:
- joanne.woodford@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
- CV:
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-5062-6798
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Short presentation
An Assistant Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Sciences, focusing on people living with physical health conditions and their informal caregivers. Joanne is the assistant research group leader for CIRCLE - Complex Intervention Research in Health and Care and an expert in intervention development, feasibility and pilot studies, and public contribution in research.
Video presentations of my research:
Keywords
- child and adolescent mental health
- clinical research
- digital health technologygy
- e-health
- e-hälsa
- health services research
- mental health
- primary care
- primärvård
- psychology
- psykisk hälsa
- psykisk ohälsa
- qualitative research
Research
Key Research Projects
- 2020 - Present: ECCO. (Collaborator). Economic Consequences of childhood cancer for fathers and mothers
- 2019 - Present: INVOLVERA. (PI). Development of a Behavioural activation based guided self-help for depression in people with dementia living in the community
- 2019 - Present: FUNCA. (Co-PI). Help-seeking behavior and attitudes towards internet-administered psychological support among adolescent and young adults previously treated for cancer during childhood
- 2018 - Present: e-CARERS. (PI). Psychological support for female adult-child caregivers of older parents
- 2018 - Present: ENTWINE. (Collaborator). Workpackage: Implementing eHealth psychological support for informal carers: a pragmatic realist complex intervention approach
- 2018 - Present: Baby&Me. (PI). Supporting mothers with peripartum depression: an integrated internet-administered intervention for peripartum depression and the mother-infant relationship
- 2018 - Present: ENGAGE. (Trial Manager). Testing and evaluation of an internet-administered, guided, cognitive-behavioural therapy based, self-help intervention, ENGAGE for parents of children treated for cancer.
- 2016 - 2018: FOCUS. (Collaborator). Guided internet-administered self-help to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression among adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer during adolescence
- 2014 - 2017: PROMOTE I. (Postdoctoral Researcher). Behavioural activation self-help to improve depression in people living with dementia: Development and feasibility
- 2011 - 2014. CEDArS. (PI/Doctoral Fellowship). Development and randomised controlled feasibility trial of guided cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) self-help for informal carers of stroke patients.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Heeding the psychological concerns of young cancer survivors (2020)
- Effectiveness and acceptability of cognitive behavioural therapy based interventions for maternal peripartum depression (2019)
- Development of an Internet-Administered Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program (ENGAGE) for Parents of Children Previously Treated for Cancer (2018)
- Study protocol for a feasibility study of an internet-administered, guided, CBT-based, self-help intervention (ENGAGE) for parents of children previously treated for cancer (2018)
- Attitudes and Preferences Toward a Hypothetical Trial of an Internet-Administered Psychological Intervention for Parents of Children Treated for Cancer (2018)
Recent publications
- Prevalence and social determinants of anxiety and depression among adults in Ghana (2024)
- Adaptation of a guided low-intensity behavioral activation intervention for people with dementia in Sweden (2024)
- Involving key stakeholders in development of a low-intensity behavioral activation intervention for people with dementia (2024)
- Examining the involvement of guardians of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Tanzania as public contributors to inform the design and conduct of the GuardiansCan project (2024)
- "Systems seem to get in the way" (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Prevalence and social determinants of anxiety and depression among adults in Ghana (2024)
- Adaptation of a guided low-intensity behavioral activation intervention for people with dementia in Sweden (2024)
- Examining the involvement of guardians of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Tanzania as public contributors to inform the design and conduct of the GuardiansCan project (2024)
- "Systems seem to get in the way" (2024)
- Preferences of support and barriers and facilitators to help-seeking in pregnant women with severe fear of childbirth in Sweden (2024)
- E-therapists' views on the acceptability and feasibility of an internet-administered, guided, low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for parents of children treated for cancer (2024)
- Designing Software for Web-based Psychosocial Care (2024)
- Involving parents of children treated for cancer in Sweden as public contributors to inform the design and conduct of an evaluation of internet-administered self-help for parents of children treated for cancer (2024)
- Barriers to and Facilitators of the Implementation of Digital Mental Health Interventions as Perceived by Primary Care Decision Makers (2023)
- An mHealth Intervention to Improve Guardians' Adherence to Children's Follow-Up Care for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Tanzania (GuardiansCan Project) (2023)
- Potential Implementers’ Perspectives on the Development and Implementation of an e–Mental Health Intervention for Caregivers of Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease (2023)
- Cognitive behavioural therapy self-help intervention preferences among informal caregivers of adults with chronic kidney disease (2023)
- The interpersonal process model of intimacy, burden and communal motivation to care in a multinational group of informal caregivers (2023)
- Concerns experienced by parents of children treated for cancer (2023)
- Psychological interventions for symptoms of depression among informal caregivers of older adult populations (2023)
- Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy-based interventions for maternal perinatal depression (2023)
- Healthcare and community stakeholders' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to implementing a behavioral activation intervention for people with dementia and depression (2023)
- Effectiveness, acceptability, and completeness and quality of intervention reporting of psychological interventions for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (2023)
- Internet‐administered, low‐intensity cognitive behavioral therapy for parents of children treated for cancer (2023)
- Implementation of e–Mental Health Interventions for Informal Caregivers of Adults With Chronic Diseases (2022)
- Dyadic Interdependence in Non-spousal Caregiving Dyads’ Wellbeing (2022)
- Opt-out rates and reasons for non-participation in a single-arm feasibility trial (ENGAGE) of a guided internet-administered CBT-based intervention for parents of children treated for cancer (2022)
- The effect of personalised versus non-personalised study invitations on recruitment within the ENGAGE feasibility trial (2022)
- Adapting a guided low-intensity behavioural activation intervention for people with dementia and depression in the Swedish healthcare context (INVOLVERA) (2021)
- Internet-Administered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Common Mental Health Difficulties in Parents of Children Treated for Cancer (2021)
- Conducting Digital Health Care Research (2021)
- Help-seeking behaviour and attitudes towards internet-administered psychological support among adolescent and young adults previously treated for cancer during childhood (2021)
- Socioeconomic consequences of parenting a child with cancer for fathers and mothers in Sweden (2021)
- Views of Implementers and Nonimplementers of Internet-Administered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Anxiety (2020)
- Implementation of e-mental health interventions for informal caregivers of adults with chronic diseases (2020)
- Implementation of e-mental health interventions for informal caregivers of adults with chronic diseases (2020)
- Supported cognitive-behavioural therapy self-help versus treatment-as-usual for depressed informal caregivers of stroke survivors (CEDArS) (2020)
- Heeding the psychological concerns of young cancer survivors (2020)
- Psychological interventions for depression among informal caregivers of older adult populations (2020)
- Study within a trial (SWAT) protocol. Investigating the effect of personalised versus non-personalised study invitations on recruitment (2020)
- Effectiveness and acceptability of cognitive behavioural therapy based interventions for maternal peripartum depression (2019)
- Development of an Internet-Administered Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program (ENGAGE) for Parents of Children Previously Treated for Cancer (2018)
- "I Don't Believe in Leading a Life of My Own, I Lead His Life" (2018)
- Study protocol for a feasibility study of an internet-administered, guided, CBT-based, self-help intervention (ENGAGE) for parents of children previously treated for cancer (2018)
- Attitudes and Preferences Toward a Hypothetical Trial of an Internet-Administered Psychological Intervention for Parents of Children Treated for Cancer (2018)
- Psychological interventions to improve psychological well-being in people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (2016)
- Behavioural activation written self-help to improve mood, wellbeing and quality of life in people with dementia supported by informal carers (PROMOTE) (2016)
- Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Self-Help for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in People with Long-Term Physical Health Conditions (2015)
- Netmums (2014)
- Supported cognitive-behavioural self-help versus treatment-as-usual for depressed informal carers of stroke survivors (CEDArS) (2014)
- Impact of support on the effectiveness of written cognitive behavioural self-help (2013)
- Psychological treatments for common mental health problems experienced by informal carers of adults with chronic physical health conditions (Protocol) (2013)
- Development of a condition-specific measure to assess quality of life in patients with hypodontia (2011)
- Recruitment into a guided internet based CBT (iCBT) intervention for depression (2011)
Conferences
- Involving key stakeholders in development of a low-intensity behavioral activation intervention for people with dementia (2024)
- Professional stakeholders’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to implementing a behavioural activation intervention for people with dementia (2024)
- Experiences and impact of involving family caregivers of people with dementia as public contributors to inform complex intervention development (2024)
- Development of a self-help behavioural activation intervention INVOLVERA for people with dementia (2023)
- Guided low-intensity behavioural activation intervention delivery preferences among people with dementia, informal caregivers, and professional stakeholders (2023)
- Stakeholder perspectives on implementation of e-mental health interventions for caregivers of adults with kidney conditions (2023)
- Sources of support and views of e-mental health among caregivers of adults with kidney conditions (2023)
- Implementation of e-mental health interventions for informal caregivers – a systematic review of what we know and where to go next (2023)
- Development and co-design of a behavioral activation intervention targeting depression among people with dementia for the Swedish context (2023)
- Self-help intervention preferences among informal caregivers of adults with kidney conditions: an online cross-sectional survey (2022)
- The role of perceived responsiveness in a multinational group of caregivers (2022)
- Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy-based interventions for maternal perinatal depression (2022)
- Developing and adapting a guided low-intensity behavioral activation intervention targeting depression in people with dementia for the Swedish context (The INVOLVERA Study) (2022)
- Barriers and facilitators to implementing e-mental health interventions – a systematic review focusing in on interventions for informal cancer and dementia caregivers (2021)
- Implementation of e-mental health interventions for informal caregivers: a systematic review (2021)
- Adapting a guided low-intensity behavioural activation intervention for people with dementia and depression in the Swedish healthcare context (INVOLVERA) (2021)
- Baby&Me (2020)
- Development of an integrated behavioural activation and parenting internet-administered intervention for postpartum depression parenting sensitivity (2020)
- Effectiveness and acceptability of cognitive behavioural therapy based interventions for maternal peripartum depression (2020)
- Behavioral activation guided self-help intervention for people with dementia and depression (2019)
