Nursing and Midwifery (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Parents' Experiences of Limiting Family Size After Birth Trauma: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2025)Background: Pregnancy and childbirth is a profound and life-changing time for women and their families. Although it can be a positive and empowering experience, for some it can be a traumatic event. Birth trauma can have ... -
Navigating Complexity: Advancing Multiple Behaviour Change Approaches for Chronic Disease and Multimorbidity Management
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2025)Background: The rising prevalence of multimorbidity presents major challenges for healthcare systems worldwide. Managing it is particularly complex, as healthcare professionals (HCPs) delivering patient-centred care must ... -
Responses to Betrayal and Its Resolution: The Role of Hatred and Reconciliation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2025)Background: The pervasive rise of hate in society is a pressing concern, with betrayal serving as a significant catalyst for its development. As a complex and multifaceted emotion, hate poses a significant obstacle to ... -
An exploratory randomised trial of a nurse-led telephone support intervention for people who support people with multiple sclerosis (the MNTISS trial)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Nursing & Midwifery, 2015)In Ireland, the provision of care by family caregivers contributes substantially to the reduction in annual national expenditure from healthcare budgets. However, the negative impact of providing informal care has been ... -
`Trust Contexts' - A Grounded Theory Study of Women's Experience of Healthcare Interactions in Pregnancy and Birth in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, 2025)Background: Reproductive rights are often considered in relation to reproductive choices like contraception and termination of pregnancy. However, reproductive rights are equally relevant in pregnancy and childbirth and ... -
Newly Qualified General Nurses' experiences and the perceived value of their internship period: a Republic of Ireland cross-sectional study.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2025)Background: A 36-week nursing internship was introduced as part of the undergraduate nursing degree programme in Ireland in 2002. This development was intended to provide final year nursing students with extended clinical ... -
The effect of a smartphone application self-management programme on clinical health outcomes in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A feasibility randomised controlled trial
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2025)Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an incurable disease that results in frequent exacerbations leading to regular hospitalisations among this cohort. Frequent exacerbations and hospitalisations can ... -
Reducing sedentary behaviour and promoting physical activity in children aged 7-9 years: developing, feasibility and pilot testing a low-cost, multicomponent, school- and home-based intervention.
(Ulster University, School of Sport, Ulster University, 2024)Many primary school children in Northern Ireland (NI) are insufficiently active and spend long periods sitting. Cost-effective interventions, which increase childhood physical activity (PA) and reduce sedentary behaviour ... -
Augmentation of labour with synthetic oxytocin: a mixed methods study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, 2025)Background: Augmentation of labour with synthetic oxytocin is one of the most frequently performed childbirth interventions among women with spontaneous onset of labour. Rates of augmentation of labour with synthetic ... -
Patient Non-Attendance Appointment Study A mixed methods study to evaluate the problem of missed appointments at the Radiology outpatient department in King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia, and the implementation and evaluation of an intervention to improve outpatient appointment attendance in this department.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2025)Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of appointment non-attendance within the Radiology Department at King Fahad Specialist Hospital and to identify the factors contributing to missed appointments. ... -
Aligning with the flow of control : a classic grounded theory of choice in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Nursing & Midwifery, 2016)Aligning with the flow of control: A classic grounded theory study. Background: Since the relatively recent acknowledgement that people with intellectual disabilities are restricted in making life decisions, ensuring choice ... -
The Impact of Child Protection Training on Nurses' Self-Efficacy in Detection and Reporting of Child Abuse in Saudi Arabia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that child abuse and neglect constitute major international health problems that cause unacceptable morbidity and mortality. These forms of maltreatment can have severe ... -
Bone health in older adults with an intellectual disability
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Nursing & Midwifery, 2016)Intellectual disability (ID) is characterised by significant limitations of both adaptive behaviour and intellectual functioning. It is a prescribed term to describe a common understanding of what is being discussed or ... -
Living with or beyond lymphoma: A mixed methods investigation of the unmet needs of cancer survivors.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, Trinity College Dublin, 2024)Background: The burden of cancer is set to increase thanks to success in treatment modalities and increasingly ageing populations. This is especially true for lymphoma survivors, the largest cohort of haematological ... -
Positioning Human Rights of Older People in Long-term Care in Ireland- a Foucauldian Critical Discourse Analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Human rights have been positioned as basic principles which apply to everyone. However, there are frequent reports of breaches of human rights when older people access long-term care (LTC), with heightened debate during ... -
A mother's journey: The meaning of having a baby born too soon for postnatal women in Malawi
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: Preterm birth remains a critical global health challenge, particularly in resource-constrained settings such as Malawi, where maternal and neonatal healthcare resources are often limited. While it is undeniably ... -
Vicarious trauma among nurses working in addiction services and the role of leadership: a European mixed methods study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: The phenomenon of vicarious trauma (VT) has been the subject of considerable attention for over 30 years, but its impact on nurses in addiction services remains poorly understood, despite the established link ... -
Overweight and obesity in older adults with an intellectual disability
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)This research is situated within the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) a nationally representative study involving 753 participants with an intellectual disability ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Older Adults with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background On the 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Governments around the world took unprecedented actions to implement public health measures to control the spread of ... -
Exploring Recruitment to Randomised Trials Within Current Clinical Care Pathways: A Qualitative Case Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: Randomised clinical trials constitute a cornerstone in the establishment of evidence-based healthcare practices (Hariton & Locascio 2018). Internationally, a positive correlation exists between the degree of ...
