Dr Sebastian Potthoff

• Knowledge translation / implementation research
• Stakeholder engagement in implementation science
• Healthcare professional behaviour change with a focus on habits and routines
• Practical Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine
• Theory-based process evaluations of interventions alongside trials
• Behaviour change theory
• Cognitive emotion regulation

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• Challenging assumptions underlying physical activity promotion for health care professionals in Australia: A data-prompted interview study, Kwasnicka, D., Potthoff, S., Hagger, M., Vandelanotte, C., Rebar, A., Short, C., Crook, D., Gardner, B. 1 Apr 2024, In: Health Promotion Journal of Australia
• How is tailored implementation undertaken using a self-guided toolkit? Qualitative study of the ItFits-toolkit in the ImpleMentAll project, Finch, T., Potthoff, S., May, C., Girling, M., Perkins, N., Vis, C., Bührmann, L., Etzelmueller, A., van Genugten, C., Schuurmans, J., Piera-Jiménez, J., Rapley, T. 11 Jul 2024, In: Implementation Science
• Recommendations for implementing digital alcohol interventions in primary care: lessons learned from a Norwegian feasibility study, Potthoff, S., Brendryen, H., Bosnic, H., Njå, A., Finch, T., Lid, T. 11 Oct 2024, In: Frontiers in Health Services
• Systematic review of applications and properties of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation outcomes: Study protocol, Finch, T., Bührmann, L., Potthoff, S., May, C., Gibson, B., Gumancik, J., Wilson-Dickson, O., Girling, M., Rapley, T. 17 Sep 2024, In: NIHR Open Research
• Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: twenty-one questions to guide future research, Gardner, B., Arden, M., Brown, D., Eves, F., Green, J., Hamilton, K., Hankonen, N., Inauen, J., Keller, J., Kwasnicka, D., Labudek, S., Marien, H., Masaryk, R., McCleary, N., Mullan, B., Neter, E., Orbell, S., Potthoff, S., Lally, P. 3 Apr 2023, In: Psychology & Health
• Effectiveness of Self-guided Tailored Implementation Strategies in Integrating and Embedding Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Routine Mental Health Care: Results of a Multicenter Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial, Vis, C., Schuurmans, J., Aouizerate, B., Atipei Craggs, M., Batterham, P., Bührmann, L., Calear, A., Cerga Pashoja, A., Christensen, H., Dozeman, E., Duedal Pedersen, C., Ebert, D., Etzelmueller, A., Fanaj, N., Finch, T., Hanssen, D., Hegerl, U., Hoogendoorn, A., Mathiasen, K., May, C., Meksi, A., Mustafa, S., O'Dea, B., Oehler, C., Piera-Jiménez, J., Potthoff, S., Qirjako, G., Rapley, T., Rosmalen, J., Sacco, Y., Samalin, L., Skjoth, M., Tarp, K., Titzler, I., Van der Eycken, E., van Genugten, C., Whitton, A., Zanalda, E., Smit, J., Riper, H. 3 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Medical Internet Research
• The effect of COVID rehabilitation for ongoing symptoms Post HOSPitalisation with COVID-19 (PHOSP-R): protocol for a randomised parallel group controlled trial on behalf of the PHOSP consortium, Daynes, E., Baldwin, M., Greening, N., Yates, T., Bishop, N., Mills, G., Roberts, M., Hamrouni, M., Plekhanova, T., Vogiatzis, I., Echevarria, C., Nathu, R., Mcauley, H., Latimer, L., Glennie, J., Chambers, F., Penfold, R., Hume, E., Megaritis, D., Alexiou, C., Potthoff, S., Hogg, M., Haighton, C., Nichol, B., Leavy, O., Richardson, M., Elneima, O., Singapuri, A., Sereno, M., Saunders, R., Harris, V., Nolan, C., Bolton, C., Houchen-wolloff, L., Harrison, E., Lone, N., Quint, J., Chalmers, J., Ho, L., Horsley, A., Marks, M., Poinasamy, K., Ramen, B., Wain, L., Brightling, C., Man, W., Evans, R., Singh, S. 26 Jan 2023, In: Trials
• Towards an Implementation‐STakeholder Engagement Model (I‐STEM) for improving health and social care services, Potthoff, S., Finch, T., Bührmann, L., Etzelmumller, A., van Genugten, C., Girling, M., May, C., Perkins, N., Vis, C., Rapley, T. 1 Oct 2023, In: Health Expectations
• Validation of the German Normalisation Process Theory Measure G-NoMAD: translation, adaptation, and pilot testing, Freund, J., Piotrowski, A., Bührmann, L., Oehler, C., Titzler, I., Netter, A., Potthoff, S., Ebert, D., Finch, T., Köberlein-Neu, J., Etzelmüller, A. 16 Oct 2023, In: Implementation Science Communications
• Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care, Potthoff, S., Kwascinska, D., Avery, L., Finch, T., Gardner, B., Hankonen, N., Johnston, D., Johnston, M., Kok, G., Lally, P., Maniatopoulos, G., Marques, M., McCleary, N., Presseau, J., Rapley, T., Sanders, T., ten Hoor, G., Vale, L., Verplanken, B., Grimshaw, J. 1 Apr 2022, In: Social Science and Medicine

Leah Bührmann Co-development of an implementation tool for knowledge mobilisers and implementers in the integrated health and social care system across the North East and North Cumbria Start Date: 01/05/2021

Sebastian has experience in supervising PhD and MD students in a broad range of topics in applied health research. Currently he is supervising two PhD students.

Current postgraduate supervision:

Leah Buhrmann - Translating research evidence into health and social care policy and practice: using best practice across an integrated health and social care system (North East and North Cumbria ARC) to co-develop and evaluate tools for knowledge mobilisers and implementers

Claire Leader - How does the discourse of National Governmental policy influence social practices around the management of wellbeing of Nurses and Midwives working in the National Health Service? 

Michealla Lincoln - How can university training and clinical supervision support low intensity practitioners to competently and confidently deliver and embed a Parent-led Cognitive Behavioural Therapy intervention and improve outcomes for children, young people, and families: a mixed methods study.

• Education Certificate January 12 2021
• Psychology PhD November 24 2017
• Psychology MRes January 09 2013
• Psychology BA August 31 2010
• Stage 2 Qualification in Health Psychology, British Psychological Society CPsychol 2015

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• Sebastian is a Director of Open Digital Health an initiative to accelerate the implementation and evaluation of open digital health tools.
• Sebastian is a Head Editor of Practical Health Psychology, a blog about cutting edge Health Psychology and how to apply it in practice. Our aim is to translate rigorous and peer reviewed research to simple and clear blog posts, which are translated into 30 languages.