Overview
Background
Nina Pocuca is a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. Nina works on the Meaningful Outcomes in Substance use Treatments Centre of Research Excellence, which aims to implement routine outcome measures and feedback (ROMF) in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector to increase its capacity to deliver evidence-based and cost-effective care.
Nina completed her PhD with the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research at Queensland University of Technology (2019), where her research examined the interplay between personality and peer norms, on alcohol use in young people. Following her PhD, Nina completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California San Diego (UCSD; 2019-2020) and the University of Montreal (2020-2022). Nina's postdoctoral research at UCSD focused on the association between substance use and cognitive function, while her Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Montreal used 25+ years of longitudinal data to examine factors associated with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Nina's interests lie in examining factors associated with co-occurring mental health and substance use, understanding the association between substance use and cognitive function, and translating research findings stemming from these areas into practice.
Current projects include:
- Projects as part of the Meaningful Outcomes in Substance use Treatments Centre of Research Excellence
- Co-design and acceptability testing of a drug checking/ pill testing brief intervention
- Using longitudinal birth cohort data to examine the link between alcohol, cannabis and polysubstance use, and cognitive development in youth (collaboration with researchers at the University of Montreal)
Availability
- Dr Nina Pocuca is:
- Available for supervision
Works
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2017
Journal Article
The interactive effects of personality profiles and perceived peer drinking on early adolescent drinking
Pocuca, Nina, Hides, Leanne, Quinn, Catherine A., White, Melanie J., Mewton, Louise, Newton, Nicola Clare, Slade, Tim, Chapman, Cath, Andrews, Gavin, Teesson, Maree, Allsop, Steve and McBride, Nyanda (2017). The interactive effects of personality profiles and perceived peer drinking on early adolescent drinking. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32 (2), 230-236. doi: 10.1037/adb0000322
2016
Journal Article
Erratum: Corrigendum to “Initial prototype testing of Ray's Night Out: A new mobile app targeting risky drinking in young people” (Computers in Human Behavior (2016) 54 (207–214) (S0747563215300443) (10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.033))
Pocuca, Nina, Hides, Leanne, Zelenko, Oksana, Quek, Lake-Hui, Stoyanov, Stoyan, Tulloch, Kristen, Johnson, Daniel, Tjondronegoro, Dian and Kavanagh, David J. (2016). Erratum: Corrigendum to “Initial prototype testing of Ray's Night Out: A new mobile app targeting risky drinking in young people” (Computers in Human Behavior (2016) 54 (207–214) (S0747563215300443) (10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.033)). Computers in Human Behavior, 64, 939-939. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.06.046
2016
Journal Article
Initial prototype testing of Ray's Night Out: a new mobile app targeting risky drinking in young people
Pocuca, Nina, Hides, Leanne, Zelenko, Oksana, Quek, Lake-Hui, Stoyanov, Stoyan, Tulloch, Kristen, Johnson, Daniel, Tjondronegoro, Dian and Kavanagh, David J. (2016). Initial prototype testing of Ray's Night Out: a new mobile app targeting risky drinking in young people. Computers in Human Behavior, 54, 207-214. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.033
Funding
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Supervision
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