• 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 ...
• Evaluating the effectiveness of clinical decision support systems: the case of multimorbidity care 

  Grace, Audrey; Mahony, Carolanne; O'Donoghue, John; Heffernan, Tony; Molony, David; Carroll, Thomas (Taylor & Francis, 2013-04-23)

  General Practitioners (GPs) and healthcare systems, worldwide, are overwhelmed by the growing number of patients with multimorbidity, particularly in light of the additional complexity and costs involved in treating these ...
• Starting with small health data opportunities for mHealth in Africa 

  Heavin, Ciara; O'Connor, Yvonne (WIT Press, 2016)

  The need to obtain data to understand effective and available child mortality-reducing control measures in rural areas of developing countries is great. Evidence shows that this challenge can potentially be overcome with ...
• Contextual barriers to mobile health technology in African countries: a perspective piece 

  O'Connor, Yvonne; O'Donoghue, John (Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine Inc., 2015-01)

  On a global scale, healthcare practitioners are now beginning to move from traditional desktop-based computer technologies towards mobile computing environments[1]. Consequently, such environments have received immense ...

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