Staff profile: Dr Fiona Jones

Fiona Jones Position: Senior Lecturer
School: Rehabilitation Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8725 0319
Email: f.jones@sgul.kingston.ac.uk

Biography

Fiona Jones is a qualified physiotherapist, and has specialised in the neurorehabilitation for over 20 years. Fiona completed her PhD, which examined factors enabling activity and participation following stroke, in 2005. Since then Fiona’s research concerning self-management in stroke has led to the development of stroke self-management training for therapists which has been piloted with three different PCT’s.

She now leads a project which is working to establish a programme of research and practice development in this area with a team of national experts in stroke rehabilitation including stroke survivors and their carers.  This aims to support stroke groups to meet targets in the white paper on self-care strategies for people with long-term conditions published in March 2006.

Fiona has given presentations at the World Congress of Physical Therapists (Vancouver, June 2007) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Annual Congress 2005, 2004, 2003) and other national clinical interest groups for physiotherapists. She has also presented her research findings internationally at the World Federation of Occupational Therapist in Stockholm, and the Arab Association of Physiotherapists conference in Jordan.

Since April 2006 Fiona has been editor of Physiotherapy Research International journal and was previously associate editor (2001–2005). In the last three years she has published in Disability and Rehabilitation and Age and Ageing on self-efficacy, self-management and stroke. She also has two more publications in the review process.

Fiona now actively collaborates with University of Ulster and is a co-applicant on a large RCT trial on self-management and stroke. There is the potential for this study to be adopted with the UK Stroke Research network, and there are emerging collaborations with the UK Stroke Therapy Research centre, University of Southampton and internationally with the University of Melbourne, Stroke Research Institute and University of Boston.

Fiona has written two book chapters in Neurological Physiotherapy (2004) and
Bases of Evidence for Practice in Neurological Physiotherapy (2002). She has written a third chapter in Neuropocket Book for Physiotherapists, which is due for publication in 2007. She is also a member of the stroke research consumer forum based St George’s, University of London (SGUL), and has a strong links with stroke survivors living in the Sutton and Merton area through local stroke clubs, and stroke rehabilitation teams.

As part of Fiona’s academic teaching and learning commitments she is currently the programme leader of a new interdisciplinary MSc in Rehabilitation (SGUL and Kingston University) and is involved in the delivery research teaching and supervision of research projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is currently second supervisor for two PhD students registered with SGUL.

Interests

Self-management, self-efficacy and rehabilitation of individuals following stroke.

Publications

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Number of items: 10.

Article

Jones, Fiona , Mandy, Anne and Partridge, Cecily (2008) Reasons for recovery after stroke: a perspective based on personal experience. Disability and Rehabilitation, 30(7), pp. 507-516. ISSN (print) 0963-8288

Garrod, Rachel , Marshall, Johanna and Jones, Fiona (2008) Self efficacy measurement and goal attainment after pulmonary rehabilitation. The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 3(4), pp. 791-796. ISSN (print) 1176-9106

Jones, Fiona (2008) Stepping out: a programme focusing on self-management after stroke. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 15(12), pp. 540-541. ISSN (print) 1741-1645

Jones, Fiona , Partridge, Cecily and Reid, Fiona (2008) The stroke self-efficacy questionnaire: measuring individual confidence in functional performance after stroke. Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness, 17(7b), pp. 244-252. ISSN (print) 1752-9816

Jones, Fiona (2006) Strategies to enhance chronic disease self-management: how can we apply this to stroke? Disability and Rehabilitation, 28(13/14), pp. 841-847. ISSN (print) 0963-8288

Jones, Fiona (2004) An individual approach to stroke recovery. Physiotherapy Research International, 9(3), pp. 147-148. ISSN (print) 1358-2267

Simpson, Janet M. and Jones, Fiona (2004) Letter to the Editor. Physical or psychological change? Which is the most important rehabilitation outcome for older people who fall. Age and Ageing, 33(2), pp. 204-205. ISSN (print) 0002-0729

Book Section

Jones, Fiona (2008) Continuity of care. In: Lennon, Sheila and Stokes, Maria, (eds.) Pocketbook of neurological physiotherapy. Edinburgh, UK : Churchill Livingstone. pp. 203-212. ISBN 9780443068546

Jones, Fiona (2002) Later rehabilitation. In: Partridge, Cecily, (ed.) Neurological physiotherapy: bases of evidence for practice. London, U.K. : Whurr. pp. 43-57. ISBN 186156225x

Conference or Workshop Item

Jones, F. , Partridge, C. and Mandy, A. (2004) Towards a measurement of self-efficacy for stroke. In: British Geriatrics Society Autumn Meeting; 6-8 October 2004.

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