Browsing College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences by Author "Department of Health and Children"
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Achieving consensus in developing a national set of child well-being indicators.
Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Sixsmith, Jane (Springer, 2007-09)This paper provides an account of the methodology used to gain consensus around the development of a national set of child well-being indicators in the Republic of Ireland. This development was identified as a key objective ... -
Child well-being: children's, parents' and teachers' perceptions.
Sixsmith, Jane; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-10)That chldren's lives be better understood is a necessary contributing step to the development of child centred quality supports, services and policies and it would appear logical that actively seeking out children's voices ... -
Children photographing well-being: facilitating participation in research
Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Sixsmith, Jane (Wiley, 2006-09)Children aged 8-12 years took 723 photographs representing well-being. Another group of children categorised the photographs, identified what was missing and discussed their inter-relationships. The largest categories were ... -
Cluster randomisation and design effects in school surveys: an exploration of the Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children data.
Molcho, Michal; Kelleher, Cecily C.; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Walsh, Kieran (National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-09)School surveys are typically conducted in classrooms where children are clustered and thus each participating student is not fully independent of others. Such unavoidable cluster randomisation increases the size of standard ... -
Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland.
Kelleher, Cecily (Elsevier, 2002-01)Fifty-one older people (26 of them women) in the Republic of Ireland were interviewed using a semi-structured schedule on their health and illness experiences at three different time points in their lives; as children, as ... -
Death education: Knowledge, attitudes and perspectives of Irish parents and teachers
McGovern, Marguerita; Barry, Margaret M. (Routledge, 2000-06)This article reports on a cross-sectional survey of the knowledge, attitudes and perspectives of Irish parents and school teachers concerning children's grief and the concept of death education. The sample comprised 119 ... -
Dieting patterns and related lifestyles of school aged children in the Republic of Ireland.
Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Nolan, Geraldine; Kelleher, Cecily C.; Friel, Sharon (Cambridge University Press, 2002)Objective: The aim of this study was to identify differences in food habits and lifestyle behaviours by dieting status among young people in Ireland. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Participants responded to a self-completion ... -
Effect of social variation on the Irish diet.
Kelleher, Cecily; Nolan, Geraldine (Cambridge University Press, 2002)Both jurisdictions of Ireland have high rates of chronic degenerative diseases, particularly of the cardiovascular system, and Irish migrants have worse health profiles, often lasting at least two generations. The influence ... -
Food poverty and health among schoolchildren: Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study.
Molcho, Michal; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Kelly, Colette; Friel, Sharon; Kelleher, Cecily C. (Cambridge Journals Online / The Nutrition Society, 2007)Objectives - To investigate the relationships between food poverty and food consumption, health and life satisfaction among schoolchildren. Design - Analysis of the 2002 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) ... -
Friendships and perceptions of place among rural, farm and urban children and adolescents in Ireland.
McGrath, Brian; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (Institute of Public Administration, 2007)Some features of contemporary Irish life, such as the fast pace of (sub)urbanisation and the proliferation of scattered housing in the countryside (e.g. Corcoran, 2005; Peillon, 2005; Crowley, 2006) suggest that the ... -
From science to policy: experience of the Breastfeeding in Ireland Strategic Action Plan
Kelly, Colette; Batt, Vivienne; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (Cambridge University Press, 2007)Healthcare decisions and policy-related issues are increasingly being made on research-based evidence. However, translating evidence into practice and policy can prove difficult and time consuming, not least because ... -
HBSC Ireland: Child Wellbeing in South County Dublin
Brennan, Graham; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008-12)This short report presents a brief analysis of the national well-being indicators for children in the South Dublin County Council area. These analyses were matched with randomly selected children of the same age-groups ... -
HBSC Ireland: Physical Activity Patterns by Age and Gender
Brennan, Graham; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008-11)This short report presents a brief analysis of Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) among Irish schoolchildren by age, gender, urban or rural location and health board region. -
Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland 2006 Middle Childhood Study: Socio-demographic patterns in the health behaviours, risk behaviours, health outcomes and social contexts of young people¿s health.
Kelly, Colette; Molcho, Michal; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (2009) -
Health Behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC): A World Health Organisation collaborative cross-national study.
Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse (National Institute of Health Sciences, 2006-02)The study aims to gain new insight into, and increase our understanding of young peoples' health and well-being, health behaviours and their social context. The survey considers the positive aspects of health, as well as ... -
Indicators of deprivation, voting patterns, and health status at area level in the Republic of Ireland
Kelleher, Cecily (BMJ Group, 2002-01)Study objective: To determine what relation, if any, exists between mortality patterns, indicators of deprivation, general lifestyle and social attitudes, as exemplified by general election voting pattern, in the Republic ... -
Interpersonal relationships as predictors of positive health among Irish youth: The more the merrier.
Molcho, Michal; Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse; Kelleher, Cecily C. (Irish Medical Organisation, 2007)ciations with supportive relationships with friends and family members, we conducted an analysis of data from the 2002 Irish Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study (HBSC); a cross-sectional survey of 8,424 Irish ... -
Living longer and feeling better: Healthy lifestyle, self-rated health, obesity and depression in Ireland
Barry, Margaret M.; Van Lente, Eric (2009)Background: The combination of four protective lifestyle behaviours (being physically active, a non-smoker, a moderate alcohol consumer and having adequate fruit and vegetable intake) has been estimated to increase life ... -
Living longer and feeling better: healthy lifestyle, self-rated health, obesity and depression in Ireland.
Barry, Margaret M. (Oxford Journals, 2009-07)Background: The combination of four protective lifestyle behaviours (being physically active, a non-smoker, a moderate alcohol consumer and having adequate fruit and vegetable intake) has been estimated to increase life ... -
Measures of self-reported morbidity according to age, gender and general medical services eligibility in the national survey of lifestyles, attitudes and nutrition.
Kelleher, Cecily; Harrington, Janas; Friel, Sharon (2002-07)Reported rates of morbidity are given for angina, heart attack, stroke, raised blood pressure, cholesterol,diabetes mellitus and for other general conditions as well as difficulty with hearing and glasses/contact lens use. ...