I Gobina

Curriculum vitae

Inese Gobiņa (PhD) has background in public health and epidemiology. She started her career as a project coordinator in nongovernmental and researcher in public health state organizations. Her research interests lie in health determinants and health outcomes in population level with a special focus on adolescents. Since 2004, she has been an active member of the international Health Behaviour among School-aged Children Study (HBSC) that aims to understand the context of the health and well-being of adolescents. She is a lead researcher of the HBSC Latvia team group. Using internationally comparable data, she has been a lead author or co-author in several international publications on pain complaints and medicine use for pain among adolescents, contributing to the evidence of the high burden of pain in the general adolescent population. Since 2018, she has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology in Riga Stradiņš University (Latvia). In 2023, she joined the Education and Research Unit at Children's Clinical University Hospital to support peadiatric clinical research. The Children's Clinical University Hospital is the only hospital in the country providing a broad spectrum of healthcare services to children and adolescents, providing a unique setting for collaborative research on paediatric pain, which has been acknowledged as an important issue for improving patient-related outcomes and well-being for children and adolescents.

Declaration of Interest

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The 5 most important personal publication

Klavina-Makrecka, S., Gobina, I., Pulmanis, T., Pudule, I., & Villerusa, A. (2020). Insufficient sleep duration in association with self-reported pain and corresponding medicine use among adolescents: a cross-sectional population-based study in Latvia. International Journal of Public Health, 65(8), 1365-1371. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01478-0

Gobina, I., Villberg, J., Välimaa, R., Tynjälä, J., Whitehead, R., Cosma, A., Brooks, F., Cavallo, F., Ng, K., de Matos, M. G., & Villerusa, A. (2019). Prevalence of self-reported chronic pain among adolescents: Evidence from 42 countries and regions. European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom), 23(2), 316-326. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1306 ication No 2

Swain, M. S., Henschke, N., Kamper, S. J., Gobina, I., Ottová-Jordan, V., & Maher, C. G. (2016). Pain and Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Adolescence: An International Population-Based Survey. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 17(5), 813–819. https://doi.org/10.1111/pme.12923

Gobina, I., Villberg, J., Villerusa, A., Välimaa, R., Tynjälä, J., Ottova-Jordan, V., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Levin, K., Cavallo, F., Borraccino, A., Sigmund, E., Andersen, A., & Holstein, B. E. (2015). Self-reported recurrent pain and medicine use behaviours among 15-year olds: results from the international study. European journal of pain (London, England), 19(1), 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.524 Publication No 4

Gobina, I., Välimaa, R., Tynjälä, J., Villberg, J., Villerusa, A., Iannotti, R. J., Godeau, E., Gabhainn, S. N., Andersen, A., Holstein, B. E., HBSC Medicine Use Writing Group, Griebler, R., Borup, I., Kokkevi, A., Fotiou, A., Boraccino, A., Dallago, L., Wagener, Y., Levin, K., & Kuntsche, E. (2011). The medicine use and corresponding subjective health complaints among adolescents, a cross-national survey. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, 20(4), 424–431. https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.2102