Faculty of Occupational Therapy

Sonja Stelly Gústafsdóttir

Assistant Professor
460 8470 She

Location

  • A316
  • Sólborg

Specialisation

Health literacy Older adults Health Promotion Urban/rural Occupational therapy Animal assisted intervention Inclusion and participation
Research portal - Sonja Stelly Gústafsdóttir 

General information

Courses 2025 - 2026

HHE0108170
Health and health promotion
IFÞ0204250
Occupation and service process: Mental functioning
HGI0110170
Mental health and occupation
HHS0105250
Health and health services: Position, aims and trends
HHE0105250
Health and health promotion
VFT0110260
Welfare technology
HGI0110170
Mental health and occupation

Education

2025
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. Journal article
2022
Making Europe health literate: including older adults in sparsely populated Arctic areas. Journal article
2020
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire, HLS-EU-Q16: the Icelandic version. Journal article
2019
Self-rated health and socio-economic status among older adults in Northern Iceland. Journal article
2017
Social justice, access and quality of healthcare in an age of austerity: users' perspective from rural Iceland. Journal article