Leona Cilar Budler is a Teaching Assistant in Nursing at the University of Maribor Faculty of Health Sciences and has a PhD in Nursing Care. Her research interest is adolescent mental health in conjunction with support for the wider social environment. As part of her PhD, she is engaged in psychometric testing of questionnaires that will be used in the research. There is also a strong emphasis on quantitative data analysis, as the doctoral thesis is largely based on the quantitative part of the research. She has also participated in numerous national and international nursing research projects in her research work.