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Women, Child & Family Health
Women, Child & Family Health
Contact Details
Dr Sandra Atkinson
Department of Nursing & Midwifery
Health Science Building
University of Limerick
Ireland
V94 X5K6
Email: sandra.atkinson@ul.ie
Group Members
Cluster Lead: Dr Sandra Atkinson (see profile link here)
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Title |
Research Team |
Funder |
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Co-design, development and evaluation of a care pathway to promote, maintain and enhance breastfeeding experience in the Neonatal Unit. |
Maria Noonan and Una Dee HSE lead. Sylvia Tighe Murphy, Carmel Bradshaw and Jan McCarthy. |
Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit. Mid-West Region |
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Public Health Nurse (PHN) led identification and response to domestic abuse in the postnatal period – A Pilot Study to assess PHN training to recognise and respond to domestic violence,
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Sylvia Tighe Murphy, Maria Noonan and Carmel Bradshaw in collaboration with Mary Shanahan, Marie Boyle and Brenda Mellett |
Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region |
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An educational video intervention to foster and promote positive attitudes to mental health among health care professionals.
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Maria Noonan, Maria Gibbons HSE lead. Teresa Tuohy, AnnMarie Grealish, Louise Murphy, Sylvia Murphy, Carmel Bradshaw, Sandra Atkinson, Kevin Johnson. |
Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region. |
Co-Applicant Research Activities
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Title |
Research Team |
Funder |
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Inter-disciplinary and inter-agency group, involving seven academic disciplines, a leading NGO for migrants, the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the WHO to draw on the tradition of participatory health research to disrupt this pattern of exclusion. |
Helen Phelan, Anne MacFarlane, Sylvia Murphy Tighe, Tríona McCaffrey, Hilary Moss, Susann Huschke, Maebh Barry and Leonie Kerins. |
HRI emerging Cluster Capacity Building Award |
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Quality Care-Metrics: An independent evaluation study to determine the impact of measuring nursing and midwifery-sensitive process metrics and indicators using Quality Care-Metrics (HSE10990) |
PI Professor Laserina O’Connor UCD. Cluster members: Maria Noonan, Carmel Bradshaw, Sylvia Murphy, Sandra Atkinson |
HSE |
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COST application: The DEVoTiON (DEliVery-related Trauma Outcomes Network) is a COST Action designed to bring together researchers and clinicians from diverse fields. The goal is to maximise the impact of research in birth trauma and PTSD in childbirth in the first 1,000 days from pregnancy and beyond. |
PI Prof Joan Lalor, TCD. Dr Sylvia Tighe Murphy |
COST application |
Project |
Amount |
Funding Source |
Start/Finish Dates |
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QCM Nursing & Midwifery Quality Care-Metrics Project (Older Person and Intellectual Disability Services) Fiona Murphy, Owen Doody, Rosemary Lyons |
€92,172.26 |
HSE/ONMSD |
September 2016-March 2018. Completed. |
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Positive social & economic ageing. Jill Murphy, Pauline O'Reilly, Fiona Murphy, Donna Wilson, Gail Low |
€5,000 | University of Limerick. International activity challenge. |
September 2017-September 2018. Completed.
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UL International Activity Challenge Fund. Sylvia Murphy-Tighe |
€3,200 | University of Limerick. International activity challenge. |
September 2017-September 2018. Completed. |
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ESTHER Common Grant application. K. Elmusharaf, P. Finucane, K. Hadfield, D. Leddin, Fiona Murphy, C. Sheehan |
€7,814 | ESTHER | September 2016. Completed |
| Identifying research questions to identify local interventions in the Mid-West Region to support breastfeeding initiation and duration. Una Dee, Margaret Hynes, Maria O'Dwyer, Sinéad O'Doherty, Audrey Lyons, Deirdre Monroe, Fiona Murphy, Maria Noonan, Janet Calvert | €9,574.25 | Nursing & Midwifery Practice Development Unit, Mid-West Region | September 2016-November 2017. Completed |