doc. Mgr. Zuzana Dankulincová, PhD.

	Email:	zuzana.dankulincova@upjs.sk
	Homepage:	https://www.upjs.sk/LF/zamestnanec/zuzana.dankulincova
	Faculty:	LF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Medicine
	Department:	UPZMV - Department of Health Psychology and Research Methodology
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	ORCID ID:	0000-0001-7599-2196

Doc. Mgr. Zuzana Dankulincova, PhD. née Veselská (1981) is an associate professor of social psychology dedicated to building research in the field of health psychology and public health with her current focus on mental health of adolescents, improvement of system of care for adolescents with mental health problems and qualitative research of people’s personal experiences of health and illness. Since 2016, she has been participating in the development of the Youth and Health research program within the cooperation between the University of Groningen and UPJŠ in Košice. She has been a researcher, principal investigator or coordinator of several cross-sectional and longitudinal studies and is currently working on the use of participatory and mixed (quantitative and qualitative) methodology in her research. Within the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study (HBSC), she holds the position of Deputy Principal Investigator of the Slovak national HBSC team. She is also member of the Slovak national DIPEx team and the national delegate of the European Health Psychology Society for Slovakia. She has 72 scientific papers registered in the Scopus and WoS databases, which recorded more than 1191 citations, and her h-index excluding self-citations is 18.

Higher education and further qualification growth

Second degree of higher education:

Prešov university in Prešov, 2006, psychology

Third degree of higher education:

University of Groningen, 2010, health sciences

Associate professor:

Masaryk university in Brno, 2016, social psychology

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
Study programme: Public Health, study field: Public Health, III. degree
Profile courses
Sociálne determinanty zdravia (Social determinants of health) - Public Health, II. degree
Základy metodológie a štatistiky (Basics in methodology and statistics) - Public Health, II. degree
Metodológia výskumu a štatistika (Methodology of research and statistics) - Public Health, III. degree
Vedecká komunikácia a manažment výskumných projektov (Scientific communication and management of research projects) - Public Health, III. degree
Psychológia zdravia - vybrané kapitoly (Health psychology - chosen chapters) - Public Health, III. degree
Psychology and proffesional communication - Nursing and laboratory methods in healthcare, I. degree
Selected publications
Palfiova M., Dankulincova Veselska Z., Bobakova D., Holubcikova J., Cermak I, Madarasova Geckova A., van Dijk J.P., Reijneveld S.A.: Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with learning disabilities? The European Journal of Public Health, 2017, 27(3):501-506.
Paclikova K., Dankulincova Veselska Z., Filakovska Bobakova D., Palfiova M., Madarasova Geckova A.: What role do family composition and functioning play in emotional and behavioural problems among adolescent boys and girls? International Journal of Public Health, 2019, 64(2):209-2017.
Dankulincová Z., Bosáková L., Fiľakovská D., Husárová D., Kopčáková J.: Cesta labyrintom: Dospievajúci s emocionálnymi problémami a problémami v správaní v systéme starostlivosti. Košice: Vydavateľstvo ŠafárikPress, 2020. ISBN 978-80-8152-921-4.
Mackova J., Dankulincová Veselská Z., Madarasová Gecková A., Jansen D.E.M.C., van Dijk J.P., Reijneveld S.A.: The role of parents in the care for adolescents suffering from emotional and behavioural problems. Frontiers in Psychology – Health Psychology 2022, 13, 1049247.
Lackova Rebičova M., Dankulincova Veselska Z., Madarasova Geckova A., Jansen D.E.M.C., van Dijk J.P., Reijneveld S.A.: Are adverse childhood experiences associated with being in the system of care? Frontiers in Psychology – Health Psychology 2022, 13, 909737.
Selected projects
APVV-21-0079 Adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems and their families in the care system, principal investigator
Reducing Inequalities in Vaccine uptake in the European Region – Engaging Underserved communities – RIVER-EU. Horizon 2020 H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020 Better Health and care, economic growth and sustainable health systems, investigator
VEGA 1/0177/20 Mapping the trajectory and experiences of adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems in the care system: opportunities for improvement from the perspective of adolescents and their parents, principal investigator
APVV-15-0012 Care4Youth Psychosocial development of children with emotional and behavioural disorders in the system of care – longitudinal study, principal investigator
VEGA 1/0981/15 Trajectory of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems within the social and health care system. A longitudinal study, investigator
International mobilities and visits
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 1.-30.6.2007, Erasmus+
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 1.-28.2.2008, Erasmus+
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 1.-28.2.2009, Erasmus+
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 1.-28.2.2010, Erasmus+
University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain, 5.-10.9.2021, Erasmus+
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 14.-18.2.2022, Erasmus+
Organisational activities
Member of Committee for PhD study in Public Health - Committee for PhD study in Public Health, University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, Faculty of Medicine, 2017-present
Member of Committee for PhD study in Health Psychology - Member of committee for PhD study in Health Psychology, Commenius university in Bratislava, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, 2022-súčasnosť

Additional information

Awards

2010 - SHARE PhD Top Publication Award

Projects

2021 – 2026 Reducing Inequalities in Vaccine uptake in the European Region – Engaging Underserved communities – RIVER-EU. Horizon 2020 H2020-SC1-BHC-2018-2020 Better Health and care, economic growth and sustainable health systems 2020 – 2024 Research on early childhood in marginalized Roma communities: contextual factors of psychomotor development in the first 1000 days. APVV-19-0493 2020 – 2023 Mapping the trajectory and experiences of adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems in the care system: opportunities for improvement from the perspective of adolescents and their parents VEGA 1/0177/20 2016 – 2020 Psychosocial development of children with emotional and behavioural disorders in the system of care – longitudinal study. APVV-15-0012 2015 – 2018 Trajectory of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems within the social and health care system. A longitudinal study. VEGA 1/0981/15 2014 – 2016 Psychosocial development of health disadvantaged school-aged children project. VEGA 1/0895/14 2011 – 2015 Project SOPHIE HEALTH-F3-2011-278173 – Evaluating the impact of structural policies on health inequalities and their social determinants and fostering change is realised within 7th Framework programme, HEALTH.2011.3.3-1 Developing methodologies to reduce inequities in the determinants of health. 2011 – 2014 HepaMeta Risk factors for hepatitis B/C and metabolic syndrome in a group of people living in Roma settlements 2011 – 2012 International Visegrad Fund: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study: Supporting the Visegrad countries research network, No.21110275 2009 – 2015 Health and health-related behaviour within social context in adolescence. APVV-0032-11 2006 – 2009 Individual, interpersonal, social and societal factors of risk behaviour in adolescence. APVV-20-038205

Interesting links

https://coherentsite.com/ https://care4youth.com/ https://hbscslovakia.com/

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