Nursing and Midwifery (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Protocol development and feasibility study of an evidence-based online pregnancy yoga programme for stress, anxiety and fear of childbirth
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Background: The importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and positive mental health during pregnancy are well publicised. Maternal stress, anxiety and fear of childbirth in pregnancy have been associated with an ... -
Diagnosing Organisational Culture During Community Healthcare Reform. A Mixed Methods Study Applying the Competing Values Framework
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Background: Across the globe healthcare systems are in a constant state of reform. However, the results of these reform activities are described as weak at best and situational dependent. While the research on organisational ... -
A Study of Family Carers of Older People with Intellectual Disability in Ireland and the Social Policy Context of their Caregiving
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2021)Background: Older people with intellectual disability and the family carers of older people with intellectual disability have been identified by the World Health Organization (2000) as two joint vulnerable groups as they ... -
A Longitudinal Examination of the Physical Health and Ageing of Individuals with Down syndrome in Ireland
Background: Over the past three decades the life expectancy of people with Down syndrome (DS) has dramatically increased with improvements in health service delivery, better knowledge, health care and advocacy. With increased ... -
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background: COPD is a common but underdiagnosed illness of the lungs and airways. Treatment is complex and varied and incorporates extensive self-management. Learning to self-manage in COPD requires people to draw on ... -
Caesarean section in nulliparous women: a mixed methods study of factors influencing decision-making and outcomes for women - the MAMMI Study Caesarean Section Strand
Background: Caesarean section (CS) rates are on a rise over the last number of decades with increased postpartum morbidities, and limited understanding of factors that influence decision-making for CS. Understanding ... -
Perioperative active warming versus no active warming during caesarean section for preventing neonatal hypothermia in women performing skin-to-skin contact: a randomized controlled trial.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)This dissertation reviews the current literature and disseminates the methods/findings of a Randomised Controlled Trial about the prevention of neonatal hypothermia in women performing skin-to-skin contact during their ... -
Diet and dietary patterns during pregnancy in nulliparous women in Ireland: a longitudinal cohort study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background: The impact of maternal diet in pregnancy, for both the mother and baby, has been widely documented. Much of the research on diet in pregnancy has focused on the relationship between single nutrients and maternal ... -
Children who live in disadvantaged areas: a case study of the health and well-being perceptions and experiences of school-aged children and their families
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background: Recent times have witnessed the development of a new appreciation towards child health and well-being and consequently there has been an upsurge of research concerning various aspects of children's lives. ... -
Development of a core set of clinical care provision indicators for non-specialist palliative care in hospitals
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background: Ageing populations with associated chronic illnesses and multi-morbidity will lead to a rapidly escalating need for all levels of palliative care provision. This will place significant pressures on health systems ... -
Deceptive promises: women's understandings of technology in maternity care
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)The biomedical approach of obstetrics, relying on intensive use of technologies, has been championed as the most relevant approach to women's needs in childbirth, and to problems faced by maternity services in Ireland, and ... -
An Exploration of Nurse-led Models of Cancer Care in Ireland: A Mixed Method Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background Within the cancer care services internationally and nationally, there has been a proliferation of nurse-led models of cancer care. However, such role development has all-too-often been ad hoc, and nature and ... -
A sequential explanatory mixed methods study on the relationships of degression and generalised anxiety disorder, with levels of alcohol consumption in order adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background: Depression and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) in the older adult population (aged 65 and over) are underdiagnosed and undertreated, as is harmful drinking. The relationships of depression, and GAD, with ... -
Employing Standardised Nursing Language to Define the Unique Interventions of Intellectual Disability Nursing
(University of Ulster, University of Ulster, 2006)Communication is central to group activities, both within the human and animal worlds, incorporating systems of signs, symbols, actions or sounds (Oxford University Press 2002) in order to transmit meaning, through the ... -
Cognitive Dissonance and Depression: An Exploration Using Mixed Methods
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background Depression is a debilitating mental health problem in which inner conflict plays a major role. How a person experiences and resolves inner conflict has been well developed in cognitive dissonance theory. The ... -
Decision-making: From 'participatory citizenship' to active citizenship. A feminist activist ethnography of parent-school relations in a DEIS School context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2019)Background Citizen participation in policy decision-making is a key principal of government as part of creating an inclusive society. The critical policy literature on the discourse of social inclusion/exclusion argues ... -
Meaning in Life for people who have experienced a First Episode Psychosis: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2019)Background: The concept of Meaning in Life (MIL) is understood to be central aspect of service user defined recovery in mental health. MIL takes on renewed importance in the context of widespread endorsement of the recovery ... -
Developing and implementing mathematical models for the prevalence, incidence and initiation into cocaine use in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Nursing & Midwifery, 2011)The National Drug Strategy 2009-2016 under the auspices of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (DCRGA) reported widespread public concern regarding the misuse of cocaine, particularly when combined with ... -
Breastfeeding support groups in Ireland: a mixed methods investigation from a cultural historical activity theory perspective
Background: Irish breastfeeding initiation rates remain the lowest in the OECD and few women are breastfeeding exclusively to six months. Breastfeeding support groups are deemed effective in promoting breastfeeding initiation ... -
The culture of birth in Ireland at the interface between home and hospital : an ethnographic study of in-labour transfer to hospital during planned home birth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Nursing & Midwifery, 2015)Birth is not just a physiological process but also a significant life event embedded in historical, political and socio-cultural constructions. These constructions of birth have a profound influence on the provision ...
