Nursing and Midwifery: Recent submissions
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"Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place": How Mental Health Nurses Experience Psychosocial interventions in Irish Mental Health Care Settings
(2020)Traditionally, the focus for mental health service delivery in Ireland has involved a medically orientated approach. This research has taken place at a time when mental health professionals are now assumed to provide ... -
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 ... -
The views and experiences of fathers regarding their young child's intellectual and developmental disability diagnosis: findings from a qualitative study
(2020)Aims and objectives: The aim of this paper is to report on fathers’ responses to their child’s diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disability (IDD), their expectations of fatherhood and their motivation for ... -
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 ... -
Major variations in childbirth interventions in high-income countries: A multinational cross-sectional study
(2020)Background Variations in intervention rates, without subsequent reductions in adverse outcomes, can indicate overuse. We studied variations in and associations between commonly used childbirth interventions and adverse ... -
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. ... -
Evaluation of a Traveller Mental Health Liaison Nurse: Service User Perspectives
(2020)Irish Travellers are a small indigenous minority group with a distinctive lifestyle and culture which sets them apart from the general population. Travellers are vulnerable to significant mental distress which is exacerbated ... -
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 ... -
Globalisation, Immigration and Diabetes Self-Management: An Empirical Study amongst Immigrants with Type 2 DM in Ireland
(2009)Background: We have previously reported that immigrants in Ireland have poorer glycemic control compared with a matched population of Irish patients. This may be associated with poor diabetes self-care and low health ... -
Community design challenge: unlocking the potential of social enterprise and entrepreneureship using universal design and interdisiplinary teams
(2015)Background: DIT’s Product Design students, Enable Ireland Assistive technology Expert Users, nursing students from Trinity College Dublin and Medical Design students from Purdue University, USA came together in interdisciplinary ... -
The cost of survival: an exploration of colorectal cancer survivors? experiences of pain
(2017)Background: The Institute of Medicine report ‘From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor’ has drawn widespread attention to the experiences of cancer survivors. Research examining the symptom experiences of survivors are ... -
Motivations for adolescent self-harm and the implications for mental health nurses
(2017)Introduction:Although self-harm is a relatively common occurrence in adolescents, there is a lack of understanding about the motivations behind it. A poor understanding of self-harm contributes to negative perceptions about ... -
A hidden trauma
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Clinicians views of factors of importance for improving the rate of VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean section): a study from countries with low VBAC rates
(2016)Background: Caesarean section (CS) rates are increasing worldwide and the most common reason is repeat CS following previous CS. For most women a vaginal birth after a previous CS (VBAC) is a safe option. However, the ... -
Ongoing cocaine and benzodiazepine use: Effects on acquisitive crime committal rates amongst opiate users in treatment
(2012)Aims: Research has shown that treatment for opiate use reduces crime, however the extent to which this is maintained is open to question. The objective of this study was to measure the relationship between crime committal ... -
A capture-recapture study of the prevalence and implications of opiate use in Dublin
(2001)Background: To date there have been no studies estimating the hidden prevalence of opiate use in Dublin. Methods: A muftisource enumeration followed by the application of the capture-recapture method with log-linear modelling ... -
Monitoring quality and coverage of harm reduction services for people who use drugs: A consensus study
(2017)Background and aims: Despite advances in our knowledge of effective services for people who use drugs over the last decades globally, coverage remains poor in most countries, while quality is often unknown. This paper ... -
There is more to perinatal mental health care than depression: public health nurses reported engagement and competence in perinatal mental health care
(2017)Aims and objectives: To explore public health nurses’ engagement, competence and education needs in relation to perinatal mental health care in Ireland. Background: It is estimated that 15%–25% of women will experience ...
