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Fiona Gillison is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across multiple fields related to health, medicine, and psychology, with a particular focus on behavioral health and public health interventions.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

Within these areas, their work has further specialized in subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Pharmacy

The main research topics cover behavioral interventions and health-related practices, including:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Media Influence and Health

Fiona Gillison's recent published papers include:

  • A systematic review of the evidence on the effect of parental communication about health and health behaviours on children's health and wellbeing, 2022, Preventive Medicine
  • Exploring the influences on men's engagement with weight loss services: a qualitative study, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Pragmatic evaluation of a coproduced physical activity referral scheme: a UK quasi-experimental study, 2020, BMJ Open
  • The impact of COVID-19 on the eating habits of families engaged in a healthy eating pilot trial: a thematic analysis, 2022, Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
  • The use of technology to address loneliness and social isolation among older adults: the role of social care providers, 2024, BMC Public Health

Frequent coauthors associated with Fiona Gillison are:

  • Elisabeth Grey
  • Dylan Thompson
  • Fran Baber
  • Martyn Standage
  • Daniella Springett

Their work has been published most often in the following venues:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • BMJ Open
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Best Publications

  • Predicting students' physical activity and health-related well-being: A prospective cross-domain investigation of motivation across school physical education and exercise settings

    Martyn Standage;Fiona B. Gillison;Nikos Ntoumanis;Darren C. Treasure

  • A meta-analysis of techniques to promote motivation for health behaviour change from a self-determination theory perspective

    Fiona B. Gillison;Peter Rouse;Martyn Standage;Simon J. Sebire

  • Relationships among adolescents' weight perceptions, exercise goals, exercise motivation, quality of life and leisure-time exercise behaviour: a self-determination theory approach

    Fiona B. Gillison;Martyn Standage;Suzie M. Skevington

  • Waste the waist: a pilot randomised controlled trial of a primary care based intervention to support lifestyle change in people with high cardiovascular risk

    Colin Greaves;Fiona Gillison;Afroditi Stathi;Paul Bennett

  • The effects of exercise interventions on quality of life in clinical and healthy populations; a meta-analysis.

    Fiona Bridget Gillison;Suzanne M. Skevington;Ayana Sato;Martyn Standage

  • Students' motivational responses toward school physical education and their relationship to general self-esteem and health-related quality of life.

    Martyn Standage;Fiona Gillison

  • Exploring the experience of introjected regulation for exercise across gender in adolescence

    Fiona Gillison;Mike Osborn;Martyn Standage;Suzanne Skevington

  • Self-determination and motivation in physical education.

    Martyn Standage;Fiona Gillison;Darren C. Treasure

  • Health-Related Quality of Life and Lifestyle Behavior Clusters in School-Aged Children from 12 Countries

    Dorothea Dumuid;Timothy Olds;Lucy K. Lewis;Lucy K. Lewis;Josep Antoni Martin-Fernández

  • Changes in quality of life and psychological need satisfaction following the transition to secondary school

    Fiona Gillison;Martyn Standage;Suzanne Skevington

  • Identifying change processes in group-based health behaviour-change interventions: development of the mechanisms of action in group-based interventions (MAGI) framework

    Aleksandra J Borek;Charles Abraham;Colin J Greaves;Fiona Gillison

  • Can it be harmful for parents to talk to their child about their weight? A meta-analysis.

    Fiona B. Gillison;Ava B. Lorenc;Ester van der Borgh Sleddens;Stefanie L. Williams

  • Sex differences in exercise behavior during adolescence: is biological maturation a confounding factor?

    Sean P. Cumming;Martyn Standage;Fiona Gillison;Robert M. Malina

  • Processes of behavior change and weight loss in a theory-based weight loss intervention program: a test of the process model for lifestyle behavior change

    Fiona Gillison;Afroditi Stathi;Prasuna Reddy;Rachel Perry

  • The adiposity of children is associated with their lifestyle behaviours: a cluster analysis of school-aged children from 12 nations.

    Dorothea Dumuid;T. Olds;L. K. Lewis;L. K. Lewis;J. A. Martin-Fernández

  • Stopping smoking can cause constipation.

    Peter Hajek;Fiona Gillison;Hayden McRobbie

  • Motivation and Body-Related Factors as Discriminators of Change in Adolescents' Exercise Behavior Profiles

    Fiona Bridget Gillison;Martyn Standage;Suzanne M Skevington

  • A theoretical investigation of the development of physical activity habits in retirement.

    Fay Beck;Fiona Gillison;Martyn Standage

  • A prospective trial of the effects of isotretinoin on quality of life and depressive symptoms.

    E J McGrath;C R Lovell;Fiona Gillison;A Darvay

  • Multiple lifestyle behaviours and overweight and obesity among children aged 9–11 years: results from the UK site of the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment

    Hannah J Wilkie;Martyn Standage;Fiona B Gillison;Sean P Cumming

  • A Systematic Review to Quantitatively Evaluate ‘Stepping Stones’: A Participatory Community-based HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention

    Suzanne M. Skevington;Elena C. Sovetkina;Fiona B. Gillison

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn Standage
Martyn Standage University of Bath
Sean P. Cumming
Sean P. Cumming University of Bath
Suzanne M. Skevington
Suzanne M. Skevington University of Manchester
Charles Abraham
Charles Abraham University of Exeter
Mark Tarrant
Mark Tarrant University of Exeter
Philip M. Wilson
Philip M. Wilson Brock University
Paul Bennett
Paul Bennett Swansea University
Rosemarie McCabe
Rosemarie McCabe City, University of London
Natalia Lawrence
Natalia Lawrence University of Exeter
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen

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