Dr Wendy Maltinsky

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Email wendy.maltinsky@stir.ac.uk
Telephone+44 (0)1786 467652

ORCID 0000-0001-6077-1817

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I work as a health psychologist/research fellow on a Scottish Government funded project developing and delivering behaviour change training to diabetes health professionals. My use of interactive approaches in training and teaching was developed through many years as a trainer working with industry, Higher Education, and third sector organisations.

Research

I have an extensive background in teaching and training using interactive approaches as appropriate. I have developed training, teaching and a health behaviour change intervention using digital technology and am interested in the use of digital as a vehicle for each of these activities and the mechanisms by which digital may support change.
My work for the Scottish Diabetes Group has led onto other projects. This has included work in Uganda with the Royal College of Midwives and the Ugandan Private Midwives Association. Facilitated through the Change Exchange of Manchester University we looked into the factors that could increase self efficacy in a student midwifery mentoring project. I have also been interested in how behaviour change training of health professionals can be made more culturally sensitive in work with Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia (again through the Change Exchange) and will shortly be extending this focus in a co-development project with health professionals in St Helena (University of Stirling Escalator and Burdett Trust funded project). The training I develop is informed by the Health Behaviour Change Competency Framework (Dixon and Johnston, 2010) which considers behaviour change competencies through motivation, action and prompt pathways. I am also interested in how the form of delivery of training may influence the development of knowledge, skills and implementation to practice.

Projects

MAP Behaviour Change: Competency Based Training in Individual Level Support for Behaviour Change for Nurse-Leads in St Helena
PI: Dr Vivien Swanson
Funded by: The Burdett Trust for Nursing
01/01/2019–31/12/2020

Outputs

Article

Behavior Change in Diabetes Practitioners: An intervention Using Motivation, Action Planning and Prompts

Maltinsky W & Swanson V (2020) Behavior Change in Diabetes Practitioners: An intervention Using Motivation, Action Planning and Prompts. Patient Education and Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.04.013

Article

Motivational and behaviour change approaches for improving diabetes management

Swanson V & Maltinsky W (2019) Motivational and behaviour change approaches for improving diabetes management. Practical Diabetes, 36 (4), pp. 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1002/pdi.2229

Article

Physical activity referral to cardiac rehabilitation, leisure centre or telephone-delivered consultations in post-surgical people with breast cancer: a mixed methods process evaluation

Hubbard G, Campbell A, Fisher A, Harvie M, Maltinsky W, Mullen R, Banks E, Gracey J, Gorely T, Munro J & Ozakinci G (2018) Physical activity referral to cardiac rehabilitation, leisure centre or telephone-delivered consultations in post-surgical people with breast cancer: a mixed methods process evaluation. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4 (1), Art. No.: 108. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0297-1

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How behavioural science can contribute to health partnerships: the case of The Change Exchange

Byrne-Davis LMT, Bull ER, Burton A, Dharni N, Gillison F, Maltinsky W, Mason C, Sharma N, Armitage CJ, Johnston M, Byrne GJ & Hart JK (2017) How behavioural science can contribute to health partnerships: the case of The Change Exchange. Globalization and Health, 13 (1), Art. No.: 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-017-0254-4

Article

Pilot project and evaluation of delivering diabetes work-based education using video conferencing

Maltinsky W, Hall S, Grant L, Simpson K & MacRury S (2013) Pilot project and evaluation of delivering diabetes work-based education using video conferencing. Rural and Remote Health, 13 (1), Art. No.: 2053. www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/2053.

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