Doctoral Student Pui Sze Cheung Completes Maternity Arts Project

Huge congratulations to Pui Sze Cheung, doctoral student at the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, on successful completion of the Maternity Arts Project at the University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL). Results from this study indicate a promising role for music therapy and art therapy in reducing anxiety and improving wellbeing among women attending perinatal mental health services in Limerick. This project is based on Pui Sze’s doctoral research supervised by Dr Tríona McCaffrey (IWAMD), Dr Sylvia Murphy-Tighe (Department of Nursing and Midwifery) and Dr Mas Mahady, Consultant Psychiatrist with the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team (UMHL). Recognizing this innovative service in perinatal mental health, the Department of Health have announced further funding for its’ continuance through the ‘Women’s Health Fund’. Ministers Donnelly and Butler announce additional €1.9 million in funding for women’s mental health services through the Women’s Health Fund (www.gov.ie)