Faculty of Occupational Therapy

Sonja Stelly Gústafsdóttir

Assistant Professor
460 8470

Location

  • A321
  • Sólborg

Specialisation

Health literacy Older adults Health Promotion Urban/rural Healthcare Occupational therapy Mental health
Research portal - Sonja Stelly Gústafsdóttir 

General information

Courses

HSI0110170
Conceptual foundations and theories in occupational therapy studies
HHE0108170
Health and health promotion
ÞFR0204170
Service process and professional reasoning II: Mental functioning
HGH0110170
Mental health
ÖHE0110220
Healthy Aging, Health Care of older adults and Health Promotion
HGH0110170
Mental health

Education

University of Iceland, Doktorspróf Health sciences
2008
Brunel University, MS Health Promotion in Public HealthOccupational Therapy
2003
University of Akureyri, BS Occupational Therapy

Research

2024
When great responsibility comes with limited options: experiences and needs of older community-dwelling adults regarding accessing, understanding, appraising and using health-related information
2022
Making Europe health literate: including older adults in sparsely populated Arctic areas
2020
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire, HLS-EU-Q16: the Icelandic version
2019
Self-rated health and socio-economic status among older adults in Northern Iceland
2017
Social justice, access and quality of healthcare in an age of austerity: users' perspective from rural Iceland.