- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...