Sarah Gibney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5102208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Gibney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibney |
| SIGNATURE | GIBNEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6298-8921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries
Introduction: Digital health information sources are playing an increasingly prominent role in health promotion, public health and in healthcare systems. Consequently, digital health literacy skills are likewise becoming increasingly important. Methods: -DIGI, applied in the European Health Literacy Survey (2019-2021) of the WHO M-POHL network, analyzing data from 28,057 respondents from 13 countries. The instrument is a modified and extended ver…
Increasing Health Literacy May Reduce Health Inequalities
Background . Health literacy has been separately associated with socio-economic status and worse health status and outcomes. However, the magnitude of the associations between health literacy and health status and outcomes may not be evenly distributed across society. This study aims to estimate and compare the associations between health status, health behaviours, and healthcare utilisation within different levels of social status in the Irish p…
Lifetime Childlessness, Depressive Mood and Quality of Life Among Older Europeans
OP18 Childlessness in Europe
Background In addition to low patterns of fertility experienced in the last 15 years, lifetime childlessness is increasing in Europe. It is now expected that between 10–20% of women born in the 1950s in Western Europe will never have children. Adult children play an important supportive role to their ageing parents; economically, acting as bridges to social support and monitoring health behaviour. This role has been enshrined at various instituti…
P1-431 Social support networks and mental health
Introduction This study investigates whether the social support networks (SSNs) of older Europeans exert a causal influence on their mental health. The manner in which social support influences mental health has been characterised by two psychological models. The main effects hypothesis predicts that individuals with strong social support experience higher levels of well-being than those with weak social support. According to the stress-buffering…
Serogenetic studies on the Daga of the interior of the mainland of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
The Daga people of Milne Bay, the easternmost Province of Papua New Guinea, occupy an upland area but do extend to the coast. Linguistically they are Papuan and, unlike their Austronesian-speaking neighbours, they appear originally to have been an exclusively inland people. They have been in contact with missionaries and miners since the turn of the century, and genetic evidence of Caucasoid gene flow may be present in the finding of several lact…
Persistent high intestinal lactase activity in Papua New Guinea. Lactose absorption curves in two populations
Thirty adolescent males, aged 16-19 years, all of Huli, Mendi or Dunai descent, sampled at Tari in Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, and 29 children aged between 9 and 15 years, all speakers of Daga and sampled at Agaun in the Milne Bay Province, have been tested for persistent high intestinal lactase activity. Three persons at Tari and five at Agaun were found to be lactose absorbers. There is reasonably convincing evidence that all five a…
Lactose absorption in a Western Massim population
A sample of adults from Goodenough Island represents the first Austronesian- speaking series to be tested for lactose absorption. The results found were similar to those for non-Austronesian-speakers tested on the nearby mainland of Papua New Guinea. It is not yet possible to conclude whether the polymorphism, so unexpectedly present in populations with no history of milk utilization, is an example of founder effect or whether it is kept in exist…
Lifetime Childlessness, Depressive Mood and Quality of Life Among Older Europeans
P1-431 Social support networks and mental health
Introduction This study investigates whether the social support networks (SSNs) of older Europeans exert a causal influence on their mental health. The manner in which social support influences mental health has been characterised by two psychological models. The main effects hypothesis predicts that individuals with strong social support experience higher levels of well-being than those with weak social support. According to the stress-buffering…
Persistent high intestinal lactase activity in Papua New Guinea. Lactose absorption curves in two populations
Thirty adolescent males, aged 16-19 years, all of Huli, Mendi or Dunai descent, sampled at Tari in Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, and 29 children aged between 9 and 15 years, all speakers of Daga and sampled at Agaun in the Milne Bay Province, have been tested for persistent high intestinal lactase activity. Three persons at Tari and five at Agaun were found to be lactose absorbers. There is reasonably convincing evidence that all five a…
Lactose absorption in a Western Massim population
A sample of adults from Goodenough Island represents the first Austronesian- speaking series to be tested for lactose absorption. The results found were similar to those for non-Austronesian-speakers tested on the nearby mainland of Papua New Guinea. It is not yet possible to conclude whether the polymorphism, so unexpectedly present in populations with no history of milk utilization, is an example of founder effect or whether it is kept in exist…
Serogenetic studies on the Daga of the interior of the mainland of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
The Daga people of Milne Bay, the easternmost Province of Papua New Guinea, occupy an upland area but do extend to the coast. Linguistically they are Papuan and, unlike their Austronesian-speaking neighbours, they appear originally to have been an exclusively inland people. They have been in contact with missionaries and miners since the turn of the century, and genetic evidence of Caucasoid gene flow may be present in the finding of several lact…
P1-431 Social support networks and mental health
Introduction This study investigates whether the social support networks (SSNs) of older Europeans exert a causal influence on their mental health. The manner in which social support influences mental health has been characterised by two psychological models. The main effects hypothesis predicts that individuals with strong social support experience higher levels of well-being than those with weak social support. According to the stress-buffering…
OP18 Childlessness in Europe
Background In addition to low patterns of fertility experienced in the last 15 years, lifetime childlessness is increasing in Europe. It is now expected that between 10–20% of women born in the 1950s in Western Europe will never have children. Adult children play an important supportive role to their ageing parents; economically, acting as bridges to social support and monitoring health behaviour. This role has been enshrined at various instituti…
Lifetime Childlessness, Depressive Mood and Quality of Life Among Older Europeans
Increasing Health Literacy May Reduce Health Inequalities
Background . Health literacy has been separately associated with socio-economic status and worse health status and outcomes. However, the magnitude of the associations between health literacy and health status and outcomes may not be evenly distributed across society. This study aims to estimate and compare the associations between health status, health behaviours, and healthcare utilisation within different levels of social status in the Irish p…
Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries
Introduction: Digital health information sources are playing an increasingly prominent role in health promotion, public health and in healthcare systems. Consequently, digital health literacy skills are likewise becoming increasingly important. Methods: -DIGI, applied in the European Health Literacy Survey (2019-2021) of the WHO M-POHL network, analyzing data from 28,057 respondents from 13 countries. The instrument is a modified and extended ver…
Demography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works)