Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Global K-Food Research Center, Hankyong National University, Anseong-si, 17579, South Korea. Electronic address: hjw@hknu.ac.kr.
Chagas disease (CD) is an under-diagnosed tropical disease that is increasingly being observed outside of Latin America. We describe the first 2 infants with congenital Chagas Disease (cCD) in Ireland...
Adolescents belonging to minority or marginalized groups often experience discrimination, which may negatively affect their mental and physical health. Using the dataset of the 2018 Health Behaviour i...
In 2012, the Irish Department of Health published a strategy in relation to alcohol and flagged that a Public Health (Alcohol) Act would be pursued through the Houses of the Oireachtas. This Public He...
Optimising clinical education in radiography is crucial to ensure competent graduates provide safe and effective patient care. Radiographers play a vital role in student supervision undertaken in the ...
The lens of Bandura's social-cognitive theory was utilised to assist the exploration of the desired constructs. An anonymous online survey was developed and circulated among qualified radiographers in...
217 responses were received. Although most radiographers reported a positive attitude (73.3%), a significant minority reported not being confident across survey items related to the tasks required (ra...
The survey has enabled first-hand identification of some challenges radiographers encounter in undertaking students' clinical supervision. Radiographers must be supported to optimise the clinical lear...
The findings highlight impact on educational support, practice, policy and future research. Effective clinical supervision is dependent on collaborative engagement and support being evident at all lev...
Primary care has the potential to address the challenges associated with the rise of chronic conditions and an aging population; however, General Practitioners are increasingly struggling to meet thes...
A survey design was used to explore the role of general practice nurses. A purposeful sample of general practice nurses (n=40) was undertaken between April and June 2019. Data were analysed using the ...
General practice nurses appear to have an agenda in relation to activities associated with wound care, immunizations, and respiratory and cardiovascular issues. Challenges to future enhancement of the...
General practice nurses have extensive clinical experience to deliver major improvements in primary care. Educational opportunities need to be provided for upskilling existing general practice nurses ...
One in five people living in Ireland is a migrant. Understanding the distinctive health needs of this diverse population is essential to provide evidence-based, culturally sensitive primary care servi...
To update a 2017 scoping review of migrant health research in Ireland, we used Arksey and O'Malley's framework, updates by Colquhoun and Peters and the PRISMA-ScR from the Joanna Briggs Institute to s...
62 papers were identified. There has been an increase in studies over time from an average of five per year in the previous review to an average of 10 per year in this review. There is growing interes...
The increase in the volume of research on migrant health in Ireland is notable. The analysis over time illuminates changes in the focus of research studies. Gaps in research about screening, assessmen...
Vaccine hesitancy is complex and multifactorial and a threat to global health. Uptake of some recommended childhood immunisations in Ireland remains below World Health Organisation targets. The aim of...
A cross-sectional, national survey of parental attitudes towards childhood vaccination for children aged 0 to 48 months was conducted between June and August 2021 (N = 855). A descriptive analysis of ...
There was a strongly positive sentiment towards childhood vaccinations. Self-reported uptake of recommended vaccines was 96.1 % with a strong belief in the importance (94.4 %) and safety (89.2 %) of v...
Understanding parental attitudes towards vaccination will inform the development of evidence-informed, targeted interventions to increase childhood immunisation uptake. Vaccine information for parents...
Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) is a safe and effective alternative option for the management of first-trimester miscarriage, termination of pregnancy, or retained pregnancy tissue. Ireland's first MVA...
To identify the number of women who have undergone MVA since establishing our service, to assess the efficacy and safety of MVA in that service, and to develop local Irish studies that further support...
With the approval and assistance of the Clinical Audit Committee, we obtained a log of all patients who underwent MVA in the first 18 months of the service. We performed a retrospective electronic cha...
In total, 86 women underwent MVA, 85 (98.8%) of which were successfully completed. There were no immediate procedural complications, inter-hospital transfers, or emergency electric vacuum aspiration (...
We have demonstrated that the MVA service in the Rotunda Hospital is a safe, effective management option with advantages for both the patient and the healthcare system. We recommend consideration for ...
Childhood epilepsy can have lasting effects which extend beyond those attributed to seizures. Previous studies have explored the lived experience of childhood epilepsy, but to our knowledge, no study ...
A semi-structured interview schedule was developed in collaboration with patient experts to investigate participants' experiences of growing up with epilepsy in Ireland. Thirteen Irish adults aged bet...
Three main themes and 14 subthemes were generated from the data. The main themes comprised (1) disenfranchised grief, (2) need to belong and (3) walking in my shoes....
All three themes demonstrated a common need for patient care that is cognisant of the child's developmental stage and psychosocial health, and the myriad of factors that contribute to both. Informatio...
Employing Irish Census microdata, we analyze trends in educational homogamy and heterogamy between 1991 and 2016 and examine how they can be explained by concurrent trends in three theoretically relev...
