• Exploring engagement with health apps: the emerging importance of situational involvement and individual characteristics 

  Flaherty, Sarah Jane; McCarthy, Mary; Collins, Alan M.; McCafferty, Claire; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M. (Emerald, 2021-05-06)

  Purpose: Health apps offer a potential approach to support healthier food behaviours but a lack of sufficient engagement may limit effectiveness. This study aims to use a user engagement theoretical lens to examine the ...
• Healthy eating habit: A role for goals, identity, and self-control? 

  McCarthy, Mary; Collins, Alan M.; Flaherty, Sarah Jane; McCarthy, Sinead N. (Wiley, 2017-08-05)

  Supporting healthier eating habits is crucial for improving population health outcomes. Underpinning everyday eating patterns are recurring actions that may lead to positive or negative health outcomes depending on the ...
• A phenomenological exploration of change towards healthier food purchasing behaviour in women from a lower socioeconomic background using a health app 

  Flaherty, Sarah Jane; McCarthy, Mary; Collins, Alan M.; McCafferty, Claire; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M. (Elsevier, 2019-12-19)

  Food purchasing is dominated by routines and habits that may hamper the use of reflective decision-making and impede change. Disrupting existing behavioural patterns may address this challenge. Individuals from a lower ...
• Protective lifestyle behaviours and lipoprotein particle subclass profiles in a middle-to older-aged population 

  Millar, Seán R.; Harrington, Janas M.; Perry, Ivan J.; Phillips, Catherine M. (Elsevier B.V., 2020-10-08)

  Background and aims: Lipoprotein particle size is associated with increased atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease risk. Certain lifestyle behaviours may be cardioprotective. We examined lipoprotein particle size and ...
• Dietary inflammatory index and biomarkers of lipoprotein metabolism, inflammation and glucose homeostasis in adults 

  Phillips, Catherine M.; Shivappa, Nitin; Hébert, James R.; Perry, Ivan J. (MDPI, 2018-08-08)

  Accumulating evidence identifies diet and inflammation as potential mechanisms contributing to cardiometabolic risk. However, inconsistent reports regarding dietary inflammatory potential, biomarkers of cardiometabolic ...

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