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Mgr. Jaroslava Kopčáková, PhD.   SK

Email:
 jaroslava.kopcakova@upjs.sk
Homepage:
 https://www.upjs.sk/LF/zamestnanec/jaroslava.kopcakova
Faculty:
LF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Medicine
Department:
CMV - Centrum medicínskeho vzdelávania UPJŠ LF
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Faculty:
LF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Medicine
Department:
CMV - Centrum medicínskeho vzdelávania UPJŠ LF
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ORCID ID:
 0000-0002-9101-0583
Jaroslava Kopčáková, PhD. (1986) received her Master degree in Psychology (Faculty of Arts, PJ Safarik University in Kosice) and PhD. in Medical sciences (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). During her university studies she participated in Children organisation Fénix and she worked as a research assistant at KISH, Child Line of trust in Košice and she also participated in several courses in psychology and psychotherapy. At present time, she is in the position of the senior researcher and director Medical Education Centre at Medical Faculty of P.J. Safarik University. She participated and still participates in several projects of national research agencies (APVV, VEGA), international or European research projects (VIPPA 2, 7RP SOPHIE HEALTH, HBSC, International Visegrad Fund). Currently, she is involved in Care4Youth study oriented on healthy development of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems paying particual attention to their trajectory in the systems of care. In addiction, she is a member of Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study (HBSC). As a member of HBSC study she is focused on physical activity in the context of psychosocial determinants epecially in adolescents. Research is oriented on health and health-related behaviour among school-aged children within their social context. Moreover, within HBSC study she participated on study oriented on objective measures of physical activity among adolescents. Since 2012 she is a member of the European Health Psychology Society and since 2017 she is a member of the European Network for Positive Psychology. Since 2020 she is a member of Health Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) Europe network and the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!) and at the same time she is a country contact for GoPA! in Slovakia. She is participating in developing a national Report card on physical activity for children and youth within the Global Matrix 4.0 project of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance.
Higher education and further qualification growth
First degree of higher education:
Faculty of Arts, P.J.Safarik University in Košice, 2009, Psychology
Second degree of higher education:
Faculty of Arts, P.J.Safarik University in Košice, 2011, Psychology
Third degree of higher education:
University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2018, Medical sciences

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Profile courses
Developmental psychology - General medicine, II. degree
Training of competencies for clinical practice - General medicine, II. degree
Training of competencies for clinical practice - Všeobecné lekárstvo, II. degree
Basics in Research Methodology and Statistics - Public Health, II. degree
Basics in Research Methodology and Statistics - Public Health, III. degree
Health Psychology - General medicine, II. degree
Psychology and Professional Communication - Laboratory Examination Methods in Healthcare, I. degree
Scientific communication and management of research projects - Public Health, III. degree
Selected publications

Toivo, K., Bakalár, P., Leppänen, M., Parkkari, J., Abazović, E., Šimunič, B., Teraž K., Malinowska-Cieślik M., Kopčáková J., Zelko A., Michalska A., Sigmundová D., Pišot R., Paravlić, A. (2025). Frequency of physical activity-related injuries among adolescents: an umbrella review. Public Health Reviews, 46, 1606767. Citations: 3, Q1, IF= 4,1.

Hnidková, L., Bakalár, P., Magda, R., Kolarčik, P., Kopčáková, J., Boberová, Z. (2024). Adolescents’ health literacy is directly associated with their physical activity but indirectly with their body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness: mediation analysis of the Slovak HBSC study data. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2762. Citations: 3, Q1, IF= 3,6.

Sigmund, E., Sigmundová, D., Pavelka, J., Kalman, M., Voráčová, J., Meier, Z., Kopčáková, J., Badura, P. (2023). Changes in the prevalence of obesity in Czech adolescents between 2018 and 2022 and its current non-genetic correlates–HBSC study. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 2092. Citations: 3, Q1, IF= 3,5.

Badura, P., Hamrik, Z., Dierckens, M., Gobiņa, I., Malinowska-Cieślik, M., Furstova, J., Kopcakova, J., Pickett, W. (2021). After the bell: adolescents’ organised leisure-time activities and well-being in the context of social and socioeconomic inequalities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75(7), 628-636. Citations: 44, Q1, IF= 6,3.

Chatelan, A., Rouche, M., Dzielska, A., Lebacq, T., Fismen, A. S., Kelly, C., Zaborskis A., Kopcakova J., Tsareva A., Kalman M., Castetbon, K. (2021). Time trends in consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and related socioeconomic differences among adolescents in Eastern Europe: signs of a nutrition transition?. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 114(4), 1476-1485. Citations: 13, Q1, IF= 8,5.
Selected projects

09I03-03-V06-00018 Capital booster for APVV-22-0078 Mental health in adolescents in the context of current societal challenges, 2025, principal investigator

CSVM UPJŠ LF - Building and developing professional skills and competencies of medical and health sciences students using medical simulation tools at the Center for Simulator and Virtual Medicine UPJŠ LF 2025-2029, researcher

CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004583 Research of Excellence on Digital Technologies and Wellbeing, 2024-2028, researcher.

APVV-22-0078 Mental health among adolescents in the context of current societal challenges, 2023-2027, principal investigator (2023-2024), researcher (from 2024)

Physical activity-related injuries prevention in adolescents (Project acronym: PARIPRE), ERASMUS+ Sport Collaborative Partnerships Call, number 622594-EPP-1-2020-1-SK-SPO-SCP; 2021 – 2023, principal investigator within University of P.J.Safarik in Kosice as a partner organisation.

VEGA 1/0179/21 Physical activity-related injuries among Slovak adolescents, 2021-2023, deputy of principal investigator

APVV-21-0079 Adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems and their families in the care system, 2022-2026, researcher

APVV–18–0070 Generation Z - new challenges in youth development, 2019-2023, researcher.

VEGA 1/0427/17 Health literacy in a school-aged children as a part of education process in schools and the outcome of school based health education, 2017-2020, researcher.

APVV-15-0012 Psychosocial development of children with emotional and behavioural disorders in the system of care – longitudinal study, 2016-2020, researcher.
International mobilities and visits
University Medical Center Groningen/ Department of Social Medicine, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, Groningen, The Netherland, 6.9.2015-26.9.2015; 16.9.2017- 22.9.2017; 17.9.2019-22.9.2019; 11.6.2020-13.6.2020; 23.1.-29.1.2022; 18.6.-22.6.2023; 28.1.-2.2.2024, Erasmus+
Palacky University in Olomouc, Tř.Míru 115, 771 11 Olomouc, Česká republika, 21.9.2014- 27.9.2014, 19.4.2016-23.04.2016, 8.5.2017-12.5.2017, 2.12.2018-6.12.2018, 30.9.2019-4.10.2019, Erasmus+
The Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 09.11.2011-13.11.2011, Erasmus+
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Sociology, Brussels, Belgium, 1.7.2012-5.7.2012
University of Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia, 5.11.2019-10.11.2019
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5.9.2021-10.9.2021, Erasmus+
Science and Research Centre Koper, INSTITUTE FOR KINESIOLOGY RESEARCH, Portorož, Slovenia, 3.10.2021-7.10.2021
Organisational activities
member on national and international team of HBSC - the Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, 2011-present
member of international society - the European Health Psychology Society, 2012-present
contact and resposible person for Slovakia for GOPA! - the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GOPA!), 2020-present
contact and resposible person for Slovakia - the Health Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA) Europe network, 2020-present
member on national team - the Global Matrix 4.0 and 5.0 project on physical activity for children and adolescents project of the Active healthy kids global alliance, 2021-present

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Interesting links
https://coherentsite.com/ https://hbscslovakia.com/ https://rozhovoryozdravi.sk/ https://care4youth.com/ https://www.paripre.eu/ https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/30747/health-of-adolescents-quantitative-and-qualitative-perspective

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