RESEARCH OUTPUT
Successful grant applications:
Psychological Therapies Research in Northern Ireland. A Rapid Review of the
Evidence. DHSSPSNI R&D Office. £19,674, 2011, CI
Training in latent variable modelling based on archived social science datasets in
Northern Ireland. ESRC RES-046-25-0037. £61,187, 2010, CI
A systematic review of psychosocial factors associated with diabetes selfmanagement and glycaemic control among children and adolescents with type 1
diabetes. South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust Discretionary Research Fund.
£10,000, 2009, CI
Psychological well-being and breast cancer: The role of illness cognitions and coping.
Grant awarded by Breast Cancer Campaign. £12,207, 2008, CI
The assessment and measurement of physical literacy in children. Grant awarded by
Sport NI, £39,411, 2008, CI
Enhancing student engagement via an informed and evaluated student-centred
induction programme. Grant awarded by the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund,
QUB. £9,613, 2007, CI
Psychological well-being among people with oesophageal cancer – the role of illness
cognitions and coping. Grant awarded by Action Cancer. £40,113., 2007, PI
Risks and hazards of blood donation and transfusion – professional and lay
knowledge and attitudes to risk in Ireland. Grant awarded by the R&D Office of the
HPSSNI. £97,895, 2004, CI
A comparative evaluation of the AgeInfo Database. Grant awarded by the Social Care
Institute for Excellence (SCIE), London. £8,000, 2003, CI
Health and social inequalities relating to cardiac rehabilitation attendance in Northern
Ireland: a walking programme for non-attenders. Grant awarded by the R&D Office
of the HPSSNI. £150,000, 2003, CI
The effectiveness of using images of oro-facial trauma to reduce “binge” drinking
among adolescents. Grant awarded by the British Academy. £3850, 2002, CI
Emotional consequences of cadaver dissection – correlates and mediating factors.
Grant awarded by the Learning Teaching Support Network Bioscience. £1087, 2002,
PI
Older people at the threshold of care management: a non-randomised controlled trial
of rehabilitation. Grant awarded by the South & East Belfast Health & Social Services
Trust. £48000, 2000, CI
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The development and validation of an individual measure of quality of life among
people with heart disease. Grant awarded by the Northern Ireland Chest Heart and
Stroke Association. £22305, 1998, PI
An evaluation of the Home from Hospital Services. Grant awarded by the Northern
Health and Social Services Board. £6000, 1998, PI
Books/Chapters:
Dempster, M. (in press). A Research Guide for Health and Clinical Psychology. A
Manual for Trainees and Supervisors. Palgrave Macmillan.
Dempster, M. (2003) Systematic Review. In R. Miller & J. Brewer (eds) The A-Z of
Social Research. London: Sage, pp.312-316.
Peer reviewed publications:
Breslin, G., McKee, D.P., Dempster, M., Delaney B.J. & Murphy, M.H. (in press).
The effect of teachers trained in a fundamental movement skills programme on
children’s self-perceptions and motor competence. European Physical Education
Review,
Ruggeri, K., Dempster, M. & Hanna, D. (2011). The impact of misunderstanding the
nature of statistics. Psychology Teaching Review, 17, 35-40.
Dempster, M. (2011). Assessing quality of life in cardiac rehabilitation: Choosing an
appropriate tool. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 6, 335-340. Commissioned
paper.
Dempster, M., McCorry, N.K., Brennan, E., Donnelly, M., Murray, L.J. & Johnston,
B.T. (in press). Psychological distress among survivors of esophageal cancer: the role
of illness cognitions and coping. Diseases of the Esophagus
Lok, A., Shannon, C. & Dempster, M. (in press). A survey of clinical psychologists
to explore their decision to supervise trainee clinical psychologists. Clinical
Psychology Forum.
Dempster, M. & McCorry, N.K. (in press). The factor structure of the revised Illness
Perceptions Questionnaire in a population of oesophageal cancer survivors. PsychoOncology
Hunt, O., McCurley, N., Dempster, M. & Marley, J. (in press). Patient anxiety and
IV sedation in Northern Ireland. British Dental Journal
Cases, A., Dempster, M., Davies, M. & Gamble, G. (in press). The experience of
individuals with renal failure participating in home haemodialysis: An interpretative
phenomenological analysis. Journal of Health Psychology
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O’Brien, G., Dempster, M., Doherty, N., Carson, D. & Bell, P. (2011). Disordered
eating attitudes among female adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Role of mothers.
Journal of Diabetes Nursing, 15, 185-190.
Dempster, M., McCarthy, T. & Davies, M. (2011). Psychological adjustment to Type
2 Diabetes and relationship quality. Diabetic Medicine 28, 487-492.
Dempster, M., McCorry, N.K., Brennan, E., Donnelly, M., Murray, L.J. & Johnston,
B.T. (2011). Do changes in illness perceptions predict changes in psychological
distress among oesophageal cancer survivors? Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 500509.
Dempster, M., McCorry, N.K., Brennan, E., Donnelly, M., Murray, L.J. & Johnston,
B.T. (2011). Illness perceptions among carer-survivor dyads are related to
psychological distress among oesophageal cancer survivors. Journal of
Psychosomatic Research, 70, 432-439.
Dempster, M., McCorry, N.K., Brennan, E., Donnelly, M., Murray, L.J. & Johnston,
B.T. (2011). Psychological distress among family carers of oesophageal cancer
survivors: the role of illness cognitions and coping. Psycho-Oncology, 20, 698-705.
Clarke, C., McCorry, N.K. & Dempster, M. (2011). The role of identity in
adjustment among survivors of oesophageal cancer. Journal of Health Psychology,
16, 99-108.
Russell, M. Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2011). Measuring health-related quality
of life after stroke: A brief tool. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 6, 41-51.
Gibbons, C., Dempster, M. and Moutray, M. (2010). Stress, coping and satisfaction
in nursing students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67, 621-632.
Cupples, M., Tully, M., Dempster, M., Corrigan, M., McCall, D. & Downey, B.
(2010). Cardiac rehabilitation uptake following myocardial infarction: cross-sectional
study in primary care. British Journal of General Practice, 60, 431-435.
Dempster, M., Carney, R. & McClements, R. (2010). Response shift in the
assessment of quality of life among people attending cardiac rehabilitation. British
Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 307-319.
McCorry, N.K., Corrigan, M., Tully, M.A., Dempster, M., Downey, B. & Cupples,
M.E. (2009). Perceptions of exercise among people who have not attended cardiac
rehabilitation following myocardial infarction. Journal of Health Psychology, 14,
924-932.
McCorry, N.K., Dempster, M., Clarke, C. & Doyle, R. (2009). Adjusting to life after
oesophagectomy: the experience of survivors and carers. Qualitative Health
Research, 19, 1485-1494.
Hill, K., Higgins, A., Dempster, M. & McCarthy, A. (2009). Fathers’ views and
understanding of their roles in families with a child with acute lymphoblastic
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leukaemia: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Health
Psychology, 14, 1268-1280.
Dorrian, A., Dempster, M. & Adair, P. (2009). Adjustment to inflammatory bowel
disease: The relative influence of illness perceptions and coping. Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases, 15, 47-55.
Gibbons, C., Dempster, M. and Moutray, M. (2009). Index of sources of stress in
nursing students: a confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65,
1095-1102.
Gibbons, C., Dempster, M. and Moutray, M. (2009). Surveying nursing students on
their sources of stress: A validation study. Nurse Education Today, 29, 867-872.
McCullough, N., Muldoon, O. & Dempster, M. (2009). Self-perception in
overweight and obese children: A cross-sectional study. Child: Care, Health and
Development, 35, 357-364.
Hanna, D., Davies, M. & Dempster, M. (2009). The role played by a range of
psychological variables in nurses’ handwashing behaviour. Nursing Times, 105 (41),
18-19. Invited paper.
Hanna, D., Davies, M. & Dempster, M. (2009). Psychological processes underlying
nurses’ handwashing behaviour. Journal of Infection Prevention, 10, 90-95.
Dempster, M. & McCorry, N.K. (2009). The role of previous experience and
attitudes toward statistics in statistics assessment outcomes among undergraduate
psychology students. Journal of Statistics Education, 17, 2.
Hanna, D. & Dempster, M. (2009). The effect of statistics anxiety on students’
predicted and actual test scores. Irish Journal of Psychology, 30, 201-210.
Ruggeri, K., Diaz, C., Kelley, K., Papousek, I., Dempster, M. & Hanna, D. (2009)
International issues in education. Psychology Teaching Review, 14, 65-74.
Ruggeri, K., Dempster, M., Hanna, D. & Cleary, C. (2009) Experiences and
expectations: the real reason nobody likes stats. Psychology Teaching Review, 14, 7583.
Hanna, D., Shevlin, M. & Dempster, M. (2008). The structure of the Statistics
Anxiety Rating Scale: A confirmatory factor analysis using UK psychology students.
Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 68-74.
Dempster, M., Carney, R. & McClements, R. (2008). Response shift in quality of life
assessment during cardiac rehabilitation. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Behavioral
Medicine Issue 19, 8-9.
Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2008). Validity of the Perceived Health Competence
Scale in a UK primary care setting. Psychology, Health & Medicine 13, 123-127.
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Gibbons, C., Dempster, M. & Moutray, M. (2008). Stress and eustress in nursing
students. Journal of Advanced Nursing 61, 282-290.
White, O., McCorry, N.K., Scott-Heyes, G., Dempster, M. & Manderson, J. (2008).
Maternal appraisals of risk, coping and prenatal attachment among women
hospitalised with pregnancy complications. Journal of Reproductive and Infant
Psychology, 26, 74-85.
Mulholland, C., Boyle, C., Shannon, C., Huda, U., Clarke, L., Meenagh, C. &
Dempster, M. (2008). Exposure to the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland influences the
clinical presentation of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 102, 278-282.
Gormley, G., Dempster, M. & Best, R. (2008). Right-left discrimination among
medical students: Getting it right all of the time? British Medical Journal, 337, a2826.
Taylor, B.J., Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2007) Grading gems: Appraising the
quality of research about social work and social care. British Journal of Social Work
37, 335-354.
Taylor, B.J., Wylie, E., Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2007). Systematically
retrieving research – a case study evaluating seven databases. Research on Social
Work Practice 17, 697-706.
Fitzsimons, D., Mullan, D., Wilson, J.S., Conway, B., Corcoran, B., Dempster, M.,
Gamble, J., Stewart, C., Rafferty, S., McMahon, M., McMahon, J., Mulholland, P.,
Stockdale, P., Chew, E., Hanna, L., Ireland, J., Ferguson, G. & Fogarty, D. (2007).
The challenge of patients’ unmet palliative care needs in the final stages of chronic
illness. Palliative Medicine 21, 313-322.
Downey, D.G., Martin, L., Dempster, M., Moore, J.E., Keoghan, M.T., Starcher, B.,
Edgar, J., Bilton, D. & Elborn, J.S. (2007). The relationship of clinical and
inflammatory markers to outcome in stable patients with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric
Pulmonology 42, 216-220.
Dempster, M., Black, A., McCorry, N. & Wilson, D. (2006). Appraisal and
consequences of cadaver dissection. Medical Education Online 11: 16.
Spence, W., Mulholland, C., Lynch, G., McHugh, S., Dempster, M. & Shannon, C.
(2006) Rates of childhood trauma in a sample of patients with schizophrenia as
compared with a sample of patients with non-psychotic psychiatric diagnoses. Journal
of Trauma and Dissociation 7, 7-22.
Dempster, M., Newell, G., Cowan, G & Marley, J. (2006). Facing up to binge
drinking: Reducing binge drinking in adolescent males. British Dental Journal 201,
587-590.
Davies, M., Dempster, M. & Malone, A. (2006) Do people with diabetes who need to
talk want to talk? Diabetic Medicine, 23, 917-919.
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Malone, A., Dempster, M. & Davies, M. (2005) Providing psychological services for
people with diabetes. Practical Diabetes International 22, 244-248.
Dempster, M., Newell, G. & Marley, J. (2005). Explaining binge drinking among
adolescent males using the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Irish Journal of
Psychology, 26, 17-24. Invited paper for a Special Issue on Health Psychology.
Kee, F., Sheehy, N., O’Hare, L., Bane, C., Bell, A., Dempster, M. & Fitzgerald, O.
(2005). Rheumatologists judgments about the efficacy of anti-TNF therapy in two
neighbouring regions. Rheumatology 44, 1407-1413.
Hurley, D.A., McDonough, S.M., Baxter, G.D., Dempster, M. & Moore, A.P. (2005)
A descriptive study of the usage of spinal manipulative therapy techniques within a
randomised clinical trial in acute low back pain. Manual Therapy 10, 61-67.
Hurley, D.A., McDonough, S.M., Dempster, M., Moore, A.P. & Baxter, G.D. (2004)
Randomized controlled trial of interferential therapy and manipulative therapy for
acute low back pain. Spine 29, 2207-2216.
Dempster, M., Donnelly, M. & O’Loughlin, C. (2004) The validity of the MacNew
Quality of Life Questionnaire in heart disease. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2:
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Taylor, B.J., Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2003) Hidden Gems: systematically
searching electronic databases for research publications for social work and social
care. British Journal of Social Work 33, 423-439.
Carney, R., Fitzsimons, D. & Dempster, M. (2002) Why people experiencing acute
myocardial infarction delay seeking medical assistance. European Journal of
Cardiovascular Nursing 2, 237-242.
Dempster, M., Donnelly, M. & Fitzsimons, D. (2002) Generic, disease-specific and
individualised approaches to measuring health-related quality of life among people
with heart disease - a comparative analysis. Psychology and Health 17, 447-457.
Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2002) Outcome measurement and service evaluation
- a note on research design. British Journal of Social Work 32, 375-378.
Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2001) GP views about a home from hospital service.
Research, Policy and Planning 19, 37-38.
Dempster, M. (2001) Changes to basic life support guidelines – evidence-based
practice? Resuscitation 51, 321.
Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2001) A comparative analysis of the SF-12 and the
SF-36 among ischaemic heart disease patients. Journal of Health Psychology 6, 707712.
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Cupples, M. & Dempster, M. (2001) Improving the quality of life for patients with
angina pectoris: a team approach to disease management. Disease Management and
Health Outcomes 9, 473-481.
Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2000) Measuring the health-related quality of life of
people with ischaemic heart disease. Heart 83, 641-644.
Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2000) Selecting a measure of health-related quality of
life. Social Work in Health Care 32, 45-56.
Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M. (2000) How well do elderly people complete
individualised quality of life measures: an exploratory study. Quality of Life Research
9, 369-375.
Bradley, J., Dempster, M., Wallace, E. & Elborn, S. (1999) The adaptations of a
quality of life questionnaire for routine use in clinical practice: the Chronic
Respiratory Disease Questionnaire in Cystic Fibrosis. Quality of Life Research 8, 6571.
Donnelly, M. & Dempster, M. (1999) A Home from Hospital service for older
people. Ulster Medical Journal 68, 79-83.
Dempster, M., Bradley, J., Wallace, E. & McCoy, P. (1997) Measuring quality of life
in cardiac rehabilitation: comparing the Short Form 36 and the Nottingham Health
Profile. Coronary Health Care 1, 211-217.
Dempster, M. (1997) Selection for transformational leadership training? Selection
And Development Review 13, 8-12.
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