
Christopher Gibbons, PhD
Department of Symptom Research, Division of Internal Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Symptom Research, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
2011 | University of Liverpool, Unknown, USA, PHD, Psychology |
2007 | University of Liverpool, Unknown, USA, BS, Psychology |
Postgraduate Training
2017-2018 | NIHR Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Cambridge |
2015-2017 | NIHR Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Cambridge |
2014-2015 | NIHR Research Fellow, University of Manchester, Manchester |
2014-2014 | Research Fellowship, University of Manchester, Manchester |
2011-2014 | Research Associate, University of Manchester, Manchester |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Member of faculty, Harvard Medical school, Cambridge, MA, 2018 - 2019
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Lagendijk M, Mittendorf E, King TA, Gibbons C, Pusic A, Dominici LS. Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcome Measures into Breast Surgical Oncology: Advancing Toward Value-Based Care. Oncologist 25(5):384-390, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31848315.
- Geerards D, van den Berg L, Pusic AL, Hoogbergen MM, Klassen AF, van der Hulst RRWJ, Sidey-Gibbons CJ. Deriving an overall appearance domain score by applying bifactor IRT analysis to the BODY-Q appearance scales. Qual Life Res 29(4):1065-1072, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31758485.
- Liu JB, Pusic AL, Gibbons CJ, Opelka FG, Sage JS, Thompson VM, Ko CY, Hall BL, Temple LK. Association of Patient-reported Experiences and Surgical Outcomes Among Group Practices: Retrospective Cohort Study. Ann Surg 271(3):475-483, 2020. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30188401.
- Voineskos SH, Klassen AF, Cano SJ, Pusic AL, Gibbons CJ. Giving Meaning to Differences in BREAST-Q Scores: Minimal Important Difference for Breast Reconstruction Patients. Plast Reconstr Surg 145(1):11e-20e, 2020. PMID: 31577663.
- Henneghan AM, Gibbons C, Harrison RA, Edwards ML, Rao V, Blayney DW, Palesh O, Kesler SR. Predicting Patient Reported Outcomes of Cognitive Function Using Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling in Breast Cancer. Brain Topogr 33(1):135-142, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31745689.
- Harrison CJ, Geerards D, Ottenhof MJ, Klassen AF, Riff KWYW, Swan MC, Pusic AL, Sidey-Gibbons CJ. Computerised adaptive testing accurately predicts CLEFT-Q scores by selecting fewer, more patient-focused questions. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 72(11):1819-1824, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31358447.
- Lewis C, Loe BS, Sidey-Gibbons C, Patch C, Chitty LS, Sanderson SC. Development of a measure of genome sequencing knowledge for young people: The kids-KOGS. Clin Genet 96(5):411-417, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31323115.
- Ottenhof MJ, Lardinois AJPM, Brouwer P, Lee EH, Deibel DS, van der Hulst RRWJ, Pusic A, Sidey-Gibbons C, Hoogbergen MM. Patient-reported Outcome Measures: The FACE-Q Skin Cancer Module: The Dutch Translation and Linguistic Validation. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open 7(10):e2325, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31772871.
- Geerards D, Pusic A, Hoogbergen M, van der Hulst R, Sidey-Gibbons C. Computerized Quality of Life Assessment: A Randomized Experiment to Determine the Impact of Individualized Feedback on Assessment Experience. J Med Internet Res 21(7):e12212, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31298217.
- Geerards D, Klassen AF, Hoogbergen MM, van der Hulst RRWJ, van den Berg L, Pusic AL, Gibbons CJ. Streamlining the Assessment of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Weight Loss and Body Contouring Patients: Applying Computerized Adaptive Testing to the BODY-Q. Plast Reconstr Surg 143(5):946e-955e, 2019. PMID: 31033817.
- Kaur M, Pusic A, Gibbons C, Klassen AF. Implementing Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Outpatient Cosmetic Surgery Clinics: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. Aesthet Surg J 39(6):687-695, 2019. PMID: 30335134.
- Sidey-Gibbons JAM, Sidey-Gibbons CJ. Machine learning in medicine: a practical introduction. BMC Med Res Methodol 19(1):64, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30890124.
- Young-Afat DA, Gibbons C, Klassen AF, Vickers AJ, Cano SJ, Pusic AL. Introducing BREAST-Q Computerized Adaptive Testing: Short and Individualized Patient-Reported Outcome Assessment following Reconstructive Breast Surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg 143(3):679-684, 2019. PMID: 30589822.
- Prajapati AR, Dima AL, Clark AB, Gant C, Gibbons C, Gorrod R, Mosa G, Scott S, Song F, Teague B, Twigg MJ, Wilson J, Bhattacharya D. Mapping of modifiable barriers and facilitators of medication adherence in bipolar disorder to the Theoretical Domains Framework: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open 9(2):e026980, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30760516.
- Faulkner S, Sidey-Gibbons C. Use of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in People With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Mixed Methods Study. Front Psychiatry 10:284, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31143131.
- Sanderson SC, Loe BS, Freeman M, Gabriel C, Stevenson DC, Gibbons C, Chitty L, Lewis C. Development of the Knowledge of Genome Sequencing (KOGS) questionnaire. Patient Educ Couns 101(11):1966-1972, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30031711.
- Camacho EM, Davies LM, Hann M, Small N, Bower P, Chew-Graham C, Baguely C, Gask L, Dickens CM, Lovell K, Waheed W, Gibbons CJ, Coventry P. Long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of collaborative care (versus usual care) for people with mental-physical multimorbidity: cluster-randomised trial. Br J Psychiatry 213(2):456-463, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29761751.
- Fischer F, Gibbons C, Coste J, Valderas JM, Rose M, Leplège A. Measurement invariance and general population reference values of the PROMIS Profile 29 in the UK, France, and Germany. Qual Life Res 27(4):999-1014, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29350345.
- Gibbons C, Pagnini F, Friede T, Young CA. Treatment of fatigue in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 1:CD011005, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29293261.
- Evans JP, Smith A, Gibbons C, Alonso J, Valderas JM. The National Institutes of Health Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS): a view from the UK. Patient Relat Outcome Meas 9:345-352, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30498382.
- Lovell K, Bee P, Brooks H, Cahoon P, Callaghan P, Carter LA, Cree L, Davies L, Drake R, Fraser C, Gibbons C, Grundy A, Hinsliff-Smith K, Meade O, Roberts C, Rogers A, Rushton K, Sanders C, Shields G, Walker L, Bower P. Embedding shared decision-making in the care of patients with severe and enduring mental health problems: The EQUIP pragmatic cluster randomised trial. PLoS One 13(8):e0201533, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30133461.
- Loe BS, Stillwell D, Gibbons C. Computerized Adaptive Testing Provides Reliable and Efficient Depression Measurement Using the CES-D Scale. J Med Internet Res 19(9):e302, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28931496.
- Small N, Brooks H, Grundy A, Pedley R, Gibbons C, Lovell K, Bee P. Understanding experiences of and preferences for service user and carer involvement in physical health care discussions within mental health care planning. BMC Psychiatry 17(1):1-12, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28407746.
- Gibbons C, Richards S, Valderas JM, Campbell J. Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms Can Classify Open-Text Feedback of Doctor Performance With Human-Level Accuracy. J Med Internet Res 19(3):e65, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28298265.
- Burt J, Newbould J, Abel G, Elliott MN, Beckwith J, Llanwarne N, Elmore N, Davey A, Gibbons C, Campbell J, Roland M. Investigating the meaning of 'good' or 'very good' patient evaluations of care in English general practice: a mixed methods study. BMJ Open 7(3):e014718, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28255096.
- Gibbons C, Bower P, Lovell K, Valderas J, Skevington S. Electronic Quality of Life Assessment Using Computer-Adaptive Testing. J Med Internet Res 18(9):e240, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27694100.
- Porter I, Gonçalves-Bradley D, Ricci-Cabello I, Gibbons C, Gangannagaripalli J, Fitzpatrick R, Black N, Greenhalgh J, Valderas JM. Framework and guidance for implementing patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: evidence, challenges and opportunities. J Comp Eff Res 5(5):507-19, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27427277.
- Gibbons CJ. Turning the Page on Pen-and-Paper Questionnaires: Combining Ecological Momentary Assessment and Computer Adaptive Testing to Transform Psychological Assessment in the 21st Century. Front Psychol 7:1933, 2016. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28154540.
- Bee P, Gibbons C, Callaghan P, Fraser C, Lovell K. Evaluating and Quantifying User and Carer Involvement in Mental Health Care Planning (EQUIP): Co-Development of a New Patient-Reported Outcome Measure. PLoS One 11(3):e0149973, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26963252.
- Peters GY, Plass AM, Crutzen R, Dima A, Gibbons CJ, Doyle F. Measurement in health psychology: combining theory, qualitative, and quantitative methods to do it right. European Health Psychologist, 2016.
- Pagnini F, Manzoni GM, Tagliaferri A, Gibbons CJ. Depression and disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A comprehensive meta-regression analysis. J Health Psychol 20(8):1107-28, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24764286.
- Kenning C, Coventry PA, Gibbons C, Bee P, Fisher L, Bower P. Does patient experience of multimorbidity predict self-management and health outcomes in a prospective study in primary care?. Fam Pract 32(3):311-6, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25715962.
- Coventry P, Lovell K, Dickens C, Bower P, Chew-Graham C, McElvenny D, Hann M, Cherrington A, Garrett C, Gibbons CJ, Baguley C, Roughley K, Adeyemi I, Reeves D, Waheed W, Gask L. Integrated primary care for patients with mental and physical multimorbidity: cluster randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease. BMJ 350:h638, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25687344.
- Gonçalves Bradley, DC, Gibbons, CJ, Ricci‐Cabello, I, Bobrovitz, NJ, Gibbons, EJ, Kotzeva, A., et al, Valderas, JM. Routine provision of information on patient‐reported outcome measures to healthcare providers and patients in clinical practice: protocol. The Cochrane Library, 2015.
- Gibbons CJ, Bee PE, Walker L, Price O, Lovell K. Service user- and carer-reported measures of involvement in mental health care planning: methodological quality and acceptability to users. Front Psychiatry 5:178, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25566099.
- Gibbons C, Thornton E, Ealing J, Shaw P, Talbot K, Tennant A, Young C. The impact of fatigue and psychosocial variables on quality of life for patients with motor neuron disease. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener 14(7-8):537-45, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23725553.
- Gibbons CJ, Thornton EW, Ealing J, Shaw PJ, Talbot K, Tennant A, Young CA, UKMND-QoL Group. Assessing social isolation in motor neurone disease: a Rasch analysis of the MND Social Withdrawal Scale. J Neurol Sci 334(1-2):112-8, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24011605.
- Young CA, Mills RJ, Gibbons C, Thornton EW. Poststroke fatigue: the patient perspective. Top Stroke Rehabil 20(6):478-84, 2013. PMID: 24273294.
- Coventry PA, Lovell K, Dickens C, Bower P, Chew-Graham C, Cherrington A, Garrett C, Gibbons CJ, Baguley C, Roughley K, Adeyemi I, Keyworth C, Waheed W, Hann M, Davies L, Jeeva F, Roberts C, Knowles S, Gask L. Update on the collaborative interventions for circulation and depression (COINCIDE) trial: changes to planned methodology of a cluster randomized controlled trial of collaborative care for depression in people with diabetes and/or coronary heart disease. Trials 14:136, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23663556.
- Gibbons CJ, Thornton EW, Young CA. The patient experience of fatigue in motor neurone disease. Front Psychol 4:788, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24639657.
- Gibbons CJ, Kenning C, Coventry PA, Bee P, Bundy C, Fisher L, Bower P. Development of a multimorbidity illness perceptions scale (MULTIPleS). PLoS One 8(12):e81852, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24376504.
- Young C, Gibbons CJ, Pagnini F, Friede T. Treatment for fatigue in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neurone disease (ALS/MND): protocol. The Cochrane Library, 2013.
- Coventry PA, Lovell K, Dickens C, Bower P, Chew-Graham C, Cherrington A, Garrett C, Gibbons CJ, Baguley C, Roughley K, Adeyemi I, Keyworth C, Waheed W, Hann M, Davies L, Jeeva F, Roberts C, Knowles S, Gask L. Collaborative Interventions for Circulation and Depression (COINCIDE): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial of collaborative care for depression in people with diabetes and/or coronary heart disease. Trials 13(1):1-21, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22906179.
- Pagnini F, Gibbons CJ, Castelnuovo G. The importance of an idiographic approach for the severe chronic disorders-the case of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient. Front Psychol 3:509, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23181046.
- Gibbons CJ, Young CA. Assessing and managing depression and fatigue in motor neuron disease. Neurodegenerative Disease Management, 2012.
- Gibbons CJ, Mills RJ, Thornton EW, Ealing J, Mitchell JD, Shaw PJ, Talbot K, Tennant A, Young CA. Development of a patient reported outcome measure for fatigue in motor neurone disease: the Neurological Fatigue Index (NFI-MND). Health Qual Life Outcomes 9(1):1-8, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22107756.
- Gibbons CJ, Mills RJ, Thornton EW, Ealing J, Mitchell JD, Shaw PJ, Talbot K, Tennant A, Young CA. Rasch analysis of the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) for use in motor neurone disease. Health Qual Life Outcomes 9:82, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21955749.
- Ottenhof M, Hoogbergen M, Pusic AL, Klassen A, Sidey-Gibbons CJ. Computerized adaptive testing can substantially shorten the patient-reported assessment of reconstruction following skin cancer. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Book Chapters
- Palmieri A, Pagnini F, Gibbons CJ. Complementary and alternative medicines and ALS. In: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Understanding and Optimizing Quality of Life and Psychological Well-Being. Oxford University Press, 2018.