Janet L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Director of Health Behavior Change Projects
jjohnson@prochange.com
Dr. Johnson leads the development of our software reporting engine and manages relationships with some of our key partners.
She has worked with a variety of health behaviors including smoking cessation, sun exposure, adolescent drug use, adolescent condom use, diet, exercise, and decision making for health care and organ donation. Her research interests include methodology and statistics and use of technology in behavior change interventions.
Winner of the Peter Merenda prize in 2001 for outstanding student work in the area of statistics and research, Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Rhode Island where she now serves as an adjunct faculty member.
Publications
Articles
Evers, K.E., Prochaska, J.O., Van Marter, D.F., Johnson, J.L., & Prochaska, J.M. (2007) Transtheoretical-based bullying prevention effectiveness trials in middle schools and high schools. Educational Research, 49, 397-414.
Prochaska, J.O., Evers, K.E., Prochaska, J.M., VanMarter, D., & Johnson, J.L. (2007) Efficacy and effectiveness trials: Examples from smoking cessation and bullying prevention. Journal of Health Psychology, 12, 170-178.
Wallace, L.M., Evers, K.E., Wareing, H., Dunn, O.M., Newby, K., Paiva, A., & Johnson, J.L. (2007). Informing school sex education using the Stages of Change construct: Sexual behaviour and attitudes towards sexual activity and condom use of children aged 13-16 in England. Journal of Health Psychology, 12, 179-183.
Johnson, J.L., Evers, K.E., Paiva, A.L., VanMarter, D.F., Prochaska, J.O., Prochaska, J.M., Mauriello, L., Cummins, C.O., & Padula, J. (2006) Prevention profiles: Understanding adolescents who do not use substances. Addictive Behaviors, 31, 1593-1606.
Evers, K.E., Prochaska, J.O., Johnson, J.L., Mauriello, L.M, Padula, J.A., & Prochaska, J.M. (2006). A Randomized Clinical Trial of a Population- and Transtheoretical-Based Stress Management Intervention. Health Psychology, 25, 521-529.
Johnson, S.S., Driskell, M., Johnson, J.L., Dyment, S.J. Prochaska, J.O., Prochaska, J.M. & Bourne, L. (2006) Transtheoretical Model Intervention for Adherence to Lipid-lowering Drugs. Disease Management, 9, 102-114.
Johnson, S.S., Driskell, M., Johnson, J.L., Prochaska, J.M., Zwick, W., & Prochaska, J.O. (2006) Efficacy of a Transtheoretical Model-Based Expert System for Antihyertensive Adherence. Disease Management, 9, 291-301.
Cummins, C.O., Evers, K.E., Johnson, J.L., Paiva, A., Prochaska, J.O., and Prochaska, J.M. (2004) Assessing stage of change and informed decision making for internet participation in health promotion and disease management. Managed Care Interface, 17, 27-32.
Prochaska, J. O., Velicer, W. F., Prochaska, J. M., & Johnson, J.L. (2004). Size, Consistency and Stability of Stage Effects for Smoking Cessation. Addictive Behaviors, 29, 207-213.
Johnson, J.L., Fava, J.L., Velicer, W.F., Monroe, A.D., and Emmons, K.M. (2002) Testing stage effects in an ethnically diverse sample. Addictive Behaviors, 27, 605-617.
Emmons, K.M., Hammond, S.K, Fava, J.L., Velicer, W.F., Evans, J.L., and Monroe, A.D.(2001) A Randomized Trial to Reduce Passive Smoke Exposure in Low Income Households with Young Children. Pediatrics, 108,18-24.
Emmons, K.M., Wong, M., Hammond, S.K., Velicer, W.F., Fava, J.L., Monroe, A.D., and Evans, J.L. (2001) Intervention and Policy Issues Related to Children’s Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Preventive Medicine, 32, 321-331.
Robbins, M.L., Levesque, D.A., Redding, C.A., Johnson, J.L., Prochaska, J.O., Rohr, M.S., & Peters, T.G. (2001) Assessing family members’ motivational rediness and decision making for consenting to cadaveric organ donation. Journal of Health Psychology, 6, 523-535.
Levesque, D. A., Prochaska, J.O., Cummins, C.O., and Evans, J.L. (2000) Assessing Readiness of Medicare Beneficiaries to participate in Informed Health Care Choices - Final Report.