Health Promotion Research staff, aoife gavin

Aoife Gavin, BA, MA [ Email]
Researcher, Health Promotion Research Centre

Profile

Aoife Gavin is a researcher within the Health Promotion Research Centre.  She is a graduate of Brock University in Ontario, Canada with a BA in Community Health Sciences as well as NUI Galway with a MA in Health Promotion.

Research Interests

Publications

de Róiste, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2012). Is School Participation Good for Children? Associations with Health and Wellbeing. Health Education, 112(2), 88-104. download (93KB)

Kelly, C., Gavin, A., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2012). The Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2010. Dublin: Department of Health. download (1.12MB)

Sentenac, M., Arnaud, C., Gavin, A., Molcho, M., Nic Gabhainn, S. & Godeau, E. (2012). Peer victimization among school-aged children with chronic conditions. Epidemiologic Reviews, 34, 120-128  (doi: 10.1093/epirev/mxr024). download (143KB)

Clerkin, P., Hanafin, S., Kelly, C., Gavin, A., De Róiste, A. and Nic Gabhainn, S. (2011) Cross-national case studies of children’s data systems. Dublin: Department of Children and Youth Affairs.  download (247KB)

Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Nic Gabhainn, S. and O’Callaghan, E. (2011) Key issues for consideration in the development of a data strategy: A review of the literature. Dublin: Department of Children and Youth Affairs. download (256KB)

Sentenac, M., Gavin, A., Arnaud, C., Molcho, M., Godeau, E., & Nic Gabhainn., S. (2011). Victims of Bullying Among Students With a Disability or Chronic Illness and Their Peers: A Cross-National Study Between Ireland and France. Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(5), 461-466. download (226KB)

Kelly, C., Molcho, M., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2009). Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland 2006 Middle Childhood Study: Socio-demographic patterns in the health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people’s health. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland. download (846KB)

O’Connell, A., Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2009). The mean age of menarche of Irish girls in 2006. Irish Medical Journal, 102(3), 76-79. download (13KB)

Clerkin, P., Hanafin, S., Kelly, C., Gavin, A., de Róiste, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008) Cross-national case studies of children’s data systems. Report to the Office of the Minister for Children, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland.  download (4KB)

de Roiste, A., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Urban and rural patterns in adolescent alcohol consumption in Ireland. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s7-s8. download (882KB)

Gavin, A., de Roiste, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). HBSC Ireland: age related patterns in alcohol consumption among Irish Schoolchildren. Short report to the National Youth Council of Ireland.  download (211KB)

Gavin, A., de Roiste, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). HBSC Ireland: urban and rural patterns in alcohol consumption among Irish children. Short report to the National Youth Council of Ireland, Dublin.  download (33KB)

Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M. & Nic Gabhainn,S. (2008). HBSC Ireland: child well-being in Dublin City. Short report for the Dublin City Children’s Services Committee. download (338KB)

Gavin, A., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Key issues for conisderation in the development of a Data Strategy for Children in Ireland: a review of the literature. Report to the Office of the Minister for Children, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland. download (4KB)

Gavin, A., Molcho, M., Kelly, C. & Nic Gabhainn S. (2008). Family, peer and school relationships as predictors of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use in Irish adolescents: differences between sustained and experimental substance use. National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 4(4), s50-s51. download (885KB)

Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). The contribution of HBSC Ireland to the National Report of the State of the Nation’s Children. Report to the Office of the Minister for Children, Department of Health and Children, Government of Ireland. download (4KB)

Hanafin, S., Brooks, A.-M., Macken, A., Brady, G., McKeever, R., Judge, C., Ryan, B., Nic Gabhainn, S. & Gavin, A. (2008). State of the Nation’s Children: Ireland 2008. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download (6.66MB)

Molcho, M., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). HBSC Ireland: cannabis and volatile substance use between 1998 and 2006. Short report to the Alcohol and Drug Research Unit of the Health Research Board, Ireland. download (31KB)

Molcho, M., Kelly, C., Gavin, A. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2008). Inequalities in health among school-aged children in Ireland. Dublin: Department of Health and Children. download (657KB)

Presentations

Gavin, A., Kelly, C., Molcho, M., Boyle, C. & Nic Gabhainn, S. (2007).  School perceptions as a predictor of high life satisfaction among Irish adolescents: Findings from the 2006/06 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study.  Paper presented at the Psychology, Health and Medicine: the 4^th Annual Conference of the Division of Health Psychology, Psychological Society of Ireland.  Maynooth, Ireland.

Lawrance, K., Gavin, A., Jessup, L. (2007).  Smoking initiation in young adulthood: how late initiators differ from early initiators.  Paper presented at 13^th Annual Conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.  Texas, U.S.A.

Gavin, A. & Lawrance, K. (2006).  Correlates of smoking initiation in young adulthood.  Results of a province-wide survey in Ontario Canada.  Presented at the 13^th Annual World Conference on Tobacco OR Health.  Washington D.C., U.S.A.

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