Contact

• workRoom B98 Medical School
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 846 6663
• Eirini.Kontou@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Eirini Kontou is currently a part-time Senior Research Fellow based at the Division of Rehabilitation & Ageing.

Dr Kontou achieved her BA (hons) in Psychology from the American College of Greece. She obtained her MSc in Rehabilitation Psychology from the University of Nottingham and then she received a training research bursary from the Stroke Association to undertake her PhD on the impact of communication problems on post-stroke depression. She qualified in clinical psychology in September 2012 from the University of Sheffield (DClinPsy) and she returned back to the university to work as a part-time researcher. As a qualified clinical psychologist, she has worked in health psychology and stroke rehabilitation. She was recently awarded a prestigious Stroke Association Postdoctoral Fellowship to develop an intervention that offers educational, psychological and social support for people after TIA and minor stroke. Eirini is interested in the development, delivery and evaluation of psychological interventions in the context of rehabilitation and physical health.

Expertise Summary

Depression and communication problems after stroke, psychological adjustment interventions for people with multiple sclerosis and other long-term physical health problems, assessing fitness to drive in neurological conditions.

Dr Kontou's has a long-standing interest in stroke rehabilitation and in psychosocial difficulties following physical health conditions.

Teaching Summary

Teaching on the MSc Rehabilitation Psychology and Health Psychology courses.

Research Summary

Optimising Psychoeducation for Transient Ischaemic Attack and Minor Stroke Management (OPTIMISM). 2015-2018. Kontou E. (CI) et al. Funded by a Stroke Association Postdoctoral Fellowship.… read more

Recent Publications

• WALKER, MF, THOMAS, SA, WHITEHEAD, PJ, CONDON, L, FISHER, RJ, KONTOU, E, BENFORD, P and COBLEY, C, 2017. Biopsychosocial Intervention for Stroke Carers (BISC): protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) BMJ Open. 7(10), e018309
• KONTOU, E, WALKER, MF, SPRIGG, N, THOMAS, S, CONDON, L and WATKINS, C, 2017. A systematic review of psychoeducational interventions for transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke management Available at: <https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/export_record_pdf.php>
• DAS NAIR R, KONTOU E, SMALE K, BARKER A and LINCOLN NB, 2015. Comparing individual and group intervention for psychological adjustment in people with multiple sclerosis: a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Clinical rehabilitation. 30(12), 1156-1164
• KONTOU, E., DAS NAIR, R. and LINCOLN, N., 2014. Comparing individual versus group psychological interventions for people with multiple sclerosis: a feasibility randomised controlled trial In: 20. 992-992

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Current Research

Optimising Psychoeducation for Transient Ischaemic Attack and Minor Stroke Management (OPTIMISM). 2015-2018. Kontou E. (CI) et al. Funded by a Stroke Association Postdoctoral Fellowship. https://www.stroke.org.uk/research/psychological-educational-and-social-support-people-after-tia-and-minor-stroke

Biopsychosocial Intervention for Stroke Carers (BISC). 2015-2018. Walker M. (CI) et al. Funded by NIHR RfPB. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/strokerehabilitation/projects/bisc.aspx

Past Research

Comparing individual versus group adjustment psychological interventions for people with multiple sclerosis (2014). Nair R. (CI) et al. Funded by Nottingham Hospitals Charity.

Validation of two neuropsychological batteries for assessing fitness to drive in people with multiple sclerosis. DClinPsy thesis project, University of Sheffield.

Factors relating to depression and aphasia after stroke (2008). PhD thesis project, University of Nottingham.

• WALKER, MF, THOMAS, SA, WHITEHEAD, PJ, CONDON, L, FISHER, RJ, KONTOU, E, BENFORD, P and COBLEY, C, 2017. Biopsychosocial Intervention for Stroke Carers (BISC): protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) BMJ Open. 7(10), e018309
• KONTOU, E, WALKER, MF, SPRIGG, N, THOMAS, S, CONDON, L and WATKINS, C, 2017. A systematic review of psychoeducational interventions for transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke management Available at: <https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/export_record_pdf.php>
• DAS NAIR R, KONTOU E, SMALE K, BARKER A and LINCOLN NB, 2015. Comparing individual and group intervention for psychological adjustment in people with multiple sclerosis: a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Clinical rehabilitation. 30(12), 1156-1164
• KONTOU, E., DAS NAIR, R. and LINCOLN, N., 2014. Comparing individual versus group psychological interventions for people with multiple sclerosis: a feasibility randomised controlled trial In: 20. 992-992
• KONTOU, E., THOMAS, S.A. and LINCOLN, N.B., 2012. Psychometric properties of a revised version of the visual analog mood scales Clinical Rehabilitation. 26(12), 1133-40