Rachel McCluskey

ORCID: 0000-0002-0767-3115
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Research Areas
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences

Health Service Executive
2023

Pain Relief Foundation
2021

Rathbone Hospital
2020

Breastfeeding continuation rates are low in Ireland. The Observation and Assessment Tool (BOAT) was developed to assist public health nurses assessing breastfeeding challenges; however, little is known of its actual usage, the level training experienced or desired by nurses, their confidence support they provide mothers.To identify current practices needs who Ireland.An online questionnaire devised collect respondents' with issues, caseload, practices. It distributed a child caseload one...

10.1177/08903344231172991 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of Human Lactation 2023-05-26

Asylum seekers and refugees (AS&Rs) experience impaired mental health wellbeing, related to stresses in their country of origin, experiences transit reception on arrival, including significant barriers accessing mainstream services. Their contact with care is often crisis-driven mediated through non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Problem Management Plus (PM+) a psychosocial intervention recommended by the World Health Organisation address distress experienced adults affected humanitarian...

10.1186/s13063-020-04310-5 article EN cc-by Trials 2020-04-28

To address the unmet need for accessible mental health services refugees and asylum seekers in high-income countries, PROSPER study is testing implementation of World Health Organization Problem Management Plus (PM+) intervention. Incorporating task-sharing strategies, intervention delivered by Peer Lay Therapists with lived experience seeking or migration. The PM+ training adopts a cascade apprenticeship model, where Master Trainers train supervise Wellbeing Mentors; who subsequently...

10.4103/intv.intv_17_20 article EN cc-by-nc-sa Intervention 2021-01-01

Background The prevalence of psychological morbidity among asylum seekers and refugees is high, but these groups encounter extensive barriers to accessing health social care. aim the PROSPER study was assess feasibility conducting a randomised controlled trial in UK Problem Management Plus (PM+), an evidence-based psychosocial intervention delivered by lay therapists for distressed functionally impaired refugees. Design We undertook PM+, which included pilot design features future definitive...

10.3310/nzxa0081 article EN publisher-specific-oa Public Health Research 2022-10-01

Abstract Background Asylum seekers and refugees (AS&Rs) experience impaired mental health wellbeing, related to stresses in their country of origin, experiences transit reception on arrival, including significant barriers accessing mainstream services. Their contact with healthcare is often crisis-driven mediated through non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Problem Management Plus (PM+) a psychosocial intervention recommended by the World Health Organization address distress...

10.21203/rs.2.24388/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2020-02-25

Abstract Background Asylum seekers and refugees (AS&Rs) experience impaired mental health wellbeing, related to stresses in their country of origin, experiences transit reception on arrival, including significant barriers accessing mainstream services. Their contact with healthcare is often crisis-driven mediated through non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Problem Management Plus (PM+) a psychosocial intervention recommended by the World Health Organization address distress...

10.21203/rs.2.24388/v2 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2020-04-08
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