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Assoc Prof Konstadina GRIVA
Collaborator
Assoc Prof Konstadina Griva is a health psychologist with expertise in behavioural medicine and digital health. Her research focuses on health behaviour change and the design and evaluation of interventions to improve outcomes, with emphasis on patient engagement and implementation in real-world settings.
She has led and co-led large-scale randomised and mixed-methods studies, including clinical trials and implementation research in clinical and community populations. Her work integrates quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate intervention effects, mechanisms, and contextual influences.
She is a principal investigator within a Climate Transformation Programme (cluster 6) on climate and health, with work on climate-related health communication and behavioural responses to environmental messaging. She is senior author on a mixed-methods systematic review of health framing in environmental messaging (Chan et al., 2026). She also leads a survey of Singapore residents on climate-related interference as part of the recently completed FTH-I programme, which found that 21% of 650 respondents reported severe interference of climate on diet and approximately 49% reported severed interference with climate-related activity. This work is to be extended with focus group discussions on public perceptions of these impacts.
As a Collaborator, she would contribute to HD4 by looking into the links between environments and its potential effects on mental health, immune function and infection resilience in Singapore.
Singapore - NTU
Researchers
HD4
Research Interest
Key Publications
Google Scholar Link
Goh, Zhong Sheng, and Konstadina Griva. 2018. ‘Anxiety and Depression in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: Impact and Management Challenges – a Narrative Review’. International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease Volume 11 (March): 93–102. https://doi.org/10.2147/IJNRD.S126615.
Griva, Konstadina, Lynn B. Myers, and Stanton Newman. 2000. ‘Illness Perceptions and Self Efficacy Beliefs in Adolescents and Young Adults with Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus’. Psychology & Health 15 (6): 733–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870440008405578.
O’Brien, Kerry S., Janet D. Latner, Rebecca M. Puhl, et al. 2016. ‘The Relationship between Weight Stigma and Eating Behavior Is Explained by Weight Bias Internalization and Psychological Distress’. Appetite 102 (July): 70–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2016.02.032.