Publications by authors named "G Doyle"

Background: Diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading cause of ill-health and death across Europe. In Ireland, dietary intakes of saturated fat, free sugar and salt exceed World Health Organization recommendations, and excess consumption follows a social gradient increasing population risk of diet-related NCDs. The retail food environment can influence consumer food choice and subsequent dietary intakes.

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  • Healthy ageing is important for older people and can be helped by how society supports them, but this support can sometimes be lacking.
  • The TILDA project studies how to promote healthy ageing and finds out what older people and their support groups think about its efforts.
  • Interviews with 15 organizations showed some limitations of TILDA, like not being inclusive enough, but also highlighted its benefits, like providing useful information to help plan for the needs of older people in the future.
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Objective: To assess technical usability of the BigO app and clinical portal among diverse participants and explore the overall user experiences of both.

Methods: Methods included technical usability testing by measuring the relative user efficiency score (RUS) for the app and measuring Relative User Efficiency (RUE) using the 'think aloud' method with the clinical portal. Qualitative approaches involved focus groups with adolescent app users and semi-structured one-to-one interviews with clinician participants.

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Background: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that causes considerable morbidity, whose risk largely results from genetic factors. Setd1a is a gene implicated in schizophrenia.

Objective: To study the gene expression changes found in heterozygous Setd1a knockout mice in order to gain useful insight into schizophrenia pathogenesis.

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