• A digital substance-use harm reduction intervention for students in higher education (MyUSE): Protocol for project development 

  Dick, Samantha; Vasiliou, Vasilis S.; Davoren, Martin P.; Dockray, Samantha; Heavin, Ciara; Linehan, Conor; Byrne, Michael (JMIR Publications, 2020-08)

  Background: Digital interventions have been identified as a possible tool for reducing the harm caused by illicit drug use among students attending higher education (ie, college students). However, the success of interventions ...
• A systematic review of the effectiveness of digital interventions for illicit substance misuse harm reduction in third-level students 

  Dick, Samantha; Whelan, Eadaoin; Davoren, Martin P.; Dockray, Samantha; Heavin, Ciara; Linehan, Conor; Byrne, Michael (BMC, 2019-09-09)

  Background: Illicit substance misuse is a growing public health problem, with misuse peaking among 18–25 year-olds, and attendance at third-level education identified as a risk factor. Illicit substance misuse has the ...
• A holistic view of the social and technical factors that Influence the assimilation of an mHealth tool in developing countries 

  Eze, Emmanuel (University College Cork, 2018)

  The integration of smartphones and mobile devices into healthcare systems has been proposed to address some of the physical barriers to healthcare delivery in rural areas of developing countries. This has prompted a number ...
• The dark side of risk homeostasis when joining a Health Social Network 

  Rowan, Wendy; O'Connor, Yvonne; Heavin, Ciara; Lynch, Laura (European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS, 2018-06)

  Social networking sites capture, store, analyse and exploit personal data resulting in heightened uncertainty and perceived risk around protecting our personal data. When this data involves personal health information (PHI) ...
• The importance of form field validation: lessons learnt from a feasibility study of an mHealth application in Malawi, Africa 

  Hardy, Victoria; O'Connor, Yvonne; Thompson, Matthew; Mastellos, Nikolaos; Tran, Tammy; O'Donoghue, John; Chirambo, Griphin Baxter; Andersson, Bo; Carlsson, Sven; Heavin, Ciara (Association for Information Systems, 2016-06)

  Measuring adherence to clinical guidelines using mobile health (mHealth) technologies when form field validation is enforced or turned on could potentially be viewed as skewing the dataset, leading to 100% adherence to the ...

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