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 social determinants of health of vulnerable groups of the population (currently especially adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems). 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 the research of social determinants of health. 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 the national delegate of the European Health Psychology Society for Slovakia and the editor of the scientific journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Q1, IF: 2.468). She has 59 scientific papers registered in the Scopus and WoS databases, which recorded more than 598 citations, and her h-index excluding self-citations is 13.

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
Selected publications
Bobakova D., Dankulincova Veselska Z., Babinska I., Klein D., Madarasova Geckova A., Cislakova L. and HEPA-META team: Differences between Roma and non-Roma in how social support from family and friends helps to overcome health care accessibility problems. International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015, 14:37.
Kuntsche, E., Wicki, M., Windlin, B., Roberts, C., Gabhainn, S. N., van der Sluijs, W., Aasvee, K., Gaspar de Matos, M., Dankulincova, Z., Hublet, A., Tynjälä, J., Välimaa, R., Bendtsen, P., Vieno, A., Mazur, J., Farkas, J., Demetrovics, Z. (2015). Drinking motives mediate cultural differences but not gender differences in adolescent alcohol use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 56, 323-329.
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.
Macková J., Dankulincová Veselská Z., Madarasová Gecková A., van Dijk J.P., Reijneveld S.A.: The association of family-related adversity with fighting in adolescents: does hopelessness mediate this association? International Journal of Public Health 2021, 66, 607199.
Kostičová M., Husárová D., Dankulincová Veselská Z.: Difficulties in Getting to Sleep and their Association with Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Adolescents: Does the Sleeping Duration Influence this Association? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020, 17(5): 1691
Selected projects
APVV-19-0493 RomaReach Research on early childhood in marginalized Roma communities: contextual factors of psychomotor development in the first 1000 days, 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 1/0177/20 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
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
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., 2011-2015, 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

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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