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Jill J Francis is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, with a notable focus on General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their research spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Applied Psychology, and Oncology.

Their work concentrates on key topics such as Health Policy Implementation Science, Health Systems and Economic Evaluations, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, Clinical Practice Guidelines Implementation, and Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare. Additional areas of research include the Delphi Technique in Research and Primary Care and Health Outcomes.

Jill J Francis has published papers in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to Implementation Science, BMC Health Services Research, Research Square, Supportive Care in Cancer, and GLOBAL PSYCHIATRY ARCHIVES. Among recent publications are:

  • Development of a theory-informed questionnaire to assess the acceptability of healthcare interventions, 2022, BMC Health Services Research
  • Implementability of healthcare interventions: an overview of reviews and development of a conceptual framework, 2022, Implementation Science
  • Changing behaviour, 'more or less': do implementation and de-implementation interventions include different behaviour change techniques?, 2021, Implementation Science
  • Why trials lose participants: A multitrial investigation of participants' perspectives using the theoretical domains framework, 2021, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Stakeholder Perspectives of Attributes and Features of Context Relevant to Knowledge Translation in Health Settings: A Multi-Country Analysis, 2021, International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Throughout their career, Jill J Francis has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Jeremy Grimshaw, Sanne Peters, Fabiana Lorencatto, Linda Denehy, and Jamie Brehaut.

Best Publications

  • The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchically Clustered Techniques: Building an International Consensus for the Reporting of Behavior Change Interventions

    Susan Michie;Michelle Richardson;Marie Johnston;Marie Johnston;Charles Abraham

  • What is an adequate sample size? Operationalising data saturation for theory-based interview studies

    Jill J Francis;Marie Johnston;Clare Robertson;Liz Glidewell

  • A guide to using the Theoretical Domains Framework of behaviour change to investigate implementation problems

    Lou Atkins;Jill J Francis;Jill J Francis;Rafat Islam;Denise O'Connor

  • Acceptability of healthcare interventions: an overview of reviews and development of a theoretical framework

    Mandeep Sekhon;Martin Cartwright;Jill J. Francis

  • From Theory to Intervention: Mapping Theoretically Derived Behavioural Determinants to Behaviour Change Techniques

    Susan Michie;Marie Johnston;Jillian Joy Francis;Wendy Hardeman

  • Developing theory-informed behaviour change interventions to implement evidence into practice: a systematic approach using the Theoretical Domains Framework

    Simon David French;Simon David French;Sally Elizabeth Green;Denise Ann O'Connor;Joanne Ellen McKenzie

  • Behaviour change techniques: the development and evaluation of a taxonomic method for reporting and describing behaviour change interventions (a suite of five studies involving consensus methods, randomised controlled trials and analysis of qualitative data)

    Susan Michie;Caroline E Wood;Marie Johnston;Marie Johnston;Charles Abraham

  • Theories of behaviour change synthesised into a set of theoretical groupings: introducing a thematic series on the theoretical domains framework

    Jill J Francis;Denise A O'Connor;Janet A Curran

  • Do self- reported intentions predict clinicians' behaviour: a systematic review

    Martin P. Eccles;Susan Hrisos;Jill J. Francis;Eileen F S Kaner

  • No more 'business as usual' with audit and feedback interventions: towards an agenda for a reinvigorated intervention.

    Noah M Ivers;Anne Sales;Heather Colquhoun;Susan Michie

  • Strengthening evaluation and implementation by specifying components of behaviour change interventions: a study protocol

    Susan Michie;Charles Abraham;Martin Eccles;Jillian Joy Francis

  • Combined use of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF): a systematic review

    Sarah A. Birken;Byron J. Powell;Justin Presseau;M. Alexis Kirk;M. Alexis Kirk

  • Action, actor, context, target, time (AACTT): a framework for specifying behaviour

    Justin Presseau;Justin Presseau;Nicola McCleary;Nicola McCleary;Fabiana Lorencatto;Andrea M. Patey

  • Clinical Performance Feedback Intervention Theory (CP-FIT): a new theory for designing, implementing, and evaluating feedback in health care based on a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research

    Benjamin Brown;Wouter T. Gude;Thomas Blakeman;Sabine N. van der Veer

  • Evidence‐based selection of theories for designing behaviour change interventions: Using methods based on theoretical construct domains to understand clinicians' blood transfusion behaviour

    Jill J. Francis;Charlotte Stockton;Martin P. Eccles;Marie Johnston

  • Anesthesiologists' and surgeons' perceptions about routine pre-operative testing in low-risk patients: application of the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to identify factors that influence physicians' decisions to order pre-operative tests.

    Andrea M Patey;Rafat Islam;Jill J Francis;Gregory L Bryson;Gregory L Bryson

  • A Randomized Trial Comparing Treatments for Varicose Veins

    Julie Brittenden;Seonaidh C Cotton;Andrew Elders;Craig R Ramsay

  • Prevalence and causes of prescribing errors: the PRescribing Outcomes for Trainee Doctors Engaged in Clinical Training (PROTECT) study.

    Cristín Ryan;Sarah Ross;Peter Davey;Eilidh M. Duncan

  • Acceptability of health care interventions: A theoretical framework and proposed research agenda

    Mandeep Sekhon;Martin Cartwright;Jill J. Francis

  • A cross-country comparison of intensive care physicians’ beliefs about their transfusion behaviour: A qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework

    Rafat Islam;Alan T Tinmouth;Alan T Tinmouth;Jill J Francis;Jamie C Brehaut;Jamie C Brehaut

  • Are there valid proxy measures of clinical behaviour? A systematic review.

    Susan Hrisos;Martin P Eccles;Jill J Francis;Heather O Dickinson

  • Which experiences of health care delivery matter to service users and why? A critical interpretive synthesis and conceptual map.

    Vikki Ann Entwistle;Danielle Firnigl;Mandy Ryan;Jillian Joy Francis

  • Learning curves, taking instructions, and patient safety: using a theoretical domains framework in an interview study to investigate prescribing errors among trainee doctors

    Eilidh M Duncan;Jill J. Francis;Marie Johnston;Peter Davey

  • 'It's a can of worms' : understanding primary care practitioners' behaviours in relation to HPV using the theoretical domains framework

    Lisa A McSherry;Stephan U Dombrowski;Jill J Francis;Judith Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Justin Presseau
Justin Presseau Ottawa Hospital
Wendy Hardeman
Wendy Hardeman University of East Anglia
Charles Abraham
Charles Abraham University of Exeter
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki
Falko F. Sniehotta
Falko F. Sniehotta Newcastle University
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Jennie Ponsford
Jennie Ponsford Monash University
Rachelle Buchbinder
Rachelle Buchbinder Monash University

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