Mr Matthew Jones

Research Officer

Psychology

m.b.jones@swansea.ac.uk

Research Links

About

I am currently working as a research officer on the SAGE study (Scoping the Accessibility of Safer Gambling Information in the United Kingdom Armed Forces: A Pilot Evaluation Study). The study was funded by a grant obtained by Professor Simon Dymond, Matt Fossey, and Justyn Larcombe. The study will involve surveying and interviewing armed forces personnel, affected others and health care professionals to capture data related to gambling and mental health; and evaluating a screening, brief intervention and referral tool for problem gamblers in the armed forces.
My previous research has focussed on common mental health problems and opioid use disorder (OUD), including the use of routine data to study health service use by decedents of opioid overdose.

Publications

Research Highlights

Jones, M., Fuller, G., Jones, M., Bradshaw, C., Jones, J., John, A., Snooks, H., & Watkins, A. (2022). The Socio-Demographics and Health Service Use of Opioid Overdose Decedents in Wales: A Cross-Sectional Data Linkage Study. European Addiction Research, 28(3), 226-230.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000521614, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60482
Jones, M., Jones, M., Bell, F., Benger, J., Black, S., Buykx, P., Dixon, S., Driscoll, T., Evans, B., Edwards, A., Fuller, G., Goodacre, S., Hoskins, R., Hughes, J., John, A., Jones, J., Moore, C., Sampson, F., Watkins, A., & Snooks, H. (2020). Protocol for Take-home naloxone In Multicentre Emergency (TIME) settings: feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00626-w, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57664
Jones, M., Porter, A., Badshah, A., Black, S., Fitzpatrick, D., Harris-Mayes, R., Islam, S., Jones, M., Kingston, M., LaFlamme-Williams, Y., Mason, S., McNee, K., Morgan, H., Morrison, Z., Mountain, P., Potts, H., Rees, N., Shaw, D., Siriwardena, N...., & Williams, V. (2020). Electronic health records in ambulances: the ERA multiple-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(10), 1-140.
https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08100, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53820
Jones, M., Jones, M., Bradshaw, C., Jones, J., John, A., Snooks, H., & Watkins, A. (2020). Primary Care Service Utilization Among People at High Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdose: A Short Communication on an Autopsy Study. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 11, 215013272092595
https://doi.org/10.1177/2150132720925957, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57665
Jones, M., Watkins, A., John, A., Bradshaw, C., Jones, J., & Jones, M. (2019). Schizophrenia in high risk opioid users: A short communication on an autopsy study. Psychiatry Research, 276, 112-114.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.04.026, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50216

All Research

Journal Articles

Jones, M., Champion, H., Dighton, G., Larcombe, J., Fossey, M., & Dymond, S. (2024). Demographic characteristics, gambling engagement, mental health, and associations with harmful gambling risk among UK Armed Forces serving personnel. BMJ Military Health, 0, e002726
https://doi.org/10.1136/military-2024-002726, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66528
Jones, M., Fuller, G., Jones, M., Bradshaw, C., Jones, J., John, A., Snooks, H., & Watkins, A. (2022). The Socio-Demographics and Health Service Use of Opioid Overdose Decedents in Wales: A Cross-Sectional Data Linkage Study. European Addiction Research, 28(3), 226-230.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000521614, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60482
Jones, M., Jones, M., Bell, F., Benger, J., Black, S., Buykx, P., Dixon, S., Driscoll, T., Evans, B., Edwards, A., Fuller, G., Goodacre, S., Hoskins, R., Hughes, J., John, A., Jones, J., Moore, C., Sampson, F., Watkins, A., & Snooks, H. (2020). Protocol for Take-home naloxone In Multicentre Emergency (TIME) settings: feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00626-w, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57664
Jones, M., Porter, A., Badshah, A., Black, S., Fitzpatrick, D., Harris-Mayes, R., Islam, S., Jones, M., Kingston, M., LaFlamme-Williams, Y., Mason, S., McNee, K., Morgan, H., Morrison, Z., Mountain, P., Potts, H., Rees, N., Shaw, D., Siriwardena, N...., & Williams, V. (2020). Electronic health records in ambulances: the ERA multiple-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(10), 1-140.
https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08100, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53820
Jones, M., Jones, M., Bradshaw, C., Jones, J., John, A., Snooks, H., & Watkins, A. (2020). Primary Care Service Utilization Among People at High Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdose: A Short Communication on an Autopsy Study. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 11, 215013272092595
https://doi.org/10.1177/2150132720925957, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57665
Jones, M., Watkins, A., John, A., Bradshaw, C., Jones, J., & Jones, M. (2019). Schizophrenia in high risk opioid users: A short communication on an autopsy study. Psychiatry Research, 276, 112-114.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.04.026, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50216
Jones, M., Jones, M., Denisova, A., Mitchell, S., & Owen, T. (2019). Acceptability of a Plasticity-Focused Serious Game Intervention for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: User Requirements Analysis. JMIR Serious Games, 7(2), e11909
https://doi.org/10.2196/11909, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa48956
https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/11909/accepted#Abstract
Jones, M., Evans, B., Ali, K., Bulger, J., Ford, G., Jones, M., Moore, C., Porter, A., Pryce, A., Quinn, T., Seagrove, A., Snooks, H., Whitman, S., & Rees, N. (2017). Referral pathways for patients with TIA avoiding hospital admission: a scoping review. BMJ Open, 7(2), e013443
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013443, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39030
Jones, M., Jones, M., & Rakovshik, S. (n.d.) Inflated sense of responsibility, explanatory style and the cognitive model of social anxiety disorder: a brief report of a case control study. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 12
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1754470X19000047, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50160

Conference Contributions

Snooks, H., Watkins, A., Jones, M., Khanom, A., Jones, J., Lyons, R., & Jones, M. (2019). Pros and cons of using anonymised linked routine data to improve efficiency of randomised controlled trials in healthcare: experience in primary and emergency care. In International Journal of Population Data ScienceSwansea University.
https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v4i3.1250, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62306

Other Research Outputs

Jones, M. (2024). Overdose, personality correlates and treatment utilization in opioid use disorder
https://doi.org/10.23889/SUthesis.66936, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66936

Career History

Research Assistant, Health Services Research, Swansea University Medical School

2016 - 2017
Research Officer, Health Services Research, Swansea University Medical School

2017 - 2020

Key Grants and Projects

Scoping the Accessibility of Safer Gambling Information in the United Kingdom Armed Forces: A Pilot Evaluation Study 2022

GREO, with Professor Simon Dymond