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“Waiting for Science to Catch up with Practice”: an examination of 10-year YouTube trends in discussions of chronic cerebral spinal venous insufficiency treatment for multiple sclerosis

Hynes, Sinéad M.; Ghahari, Setareh; Forwell, Susan J. (Taylor & Francis, 2019-03-26)

Objective: The objective of this longitudinal study examined, first, whether people with multiple sclerosis who previously advocated for angioplasty to treat chronic cerebral spinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) through ...

Weight reduction behaviors among European adolescents—Changes from 2001/2002 to 2017/2018.

Dzielska, Anna; Kelly, Colette; Ojala, Kristiina; Finne, Emily; Spinelli, Angela; Furstova, Jana; Fismen, Anne-Siri; Ercan, Oya; Tesler, Riki; Melkumova, Marina; Canale, Natale; Nardone, Paola; Gudelj Rakic, Jelena; Dalmasso, Paola (Elsevier, 2020-05-20)

The purpose of this study was to analyze changes in the prevalence of weight reduction behaviors (WRBs) among European adolescents from 26 countries between 2001/2002 and 2017/2018. The impact of the perception of body ...

Well-being and resilience in children with speech and language disorders

Lyons, Rena; Roulstone, Sue (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2018-01-25)

Purpose Children with speech and language disorders are at risk in relation to psychological and social well-being. The aim of this study was to understand the experiences of these children from their own perspectives ...

What is the extent of food poverty in Ireland?

Friel, Sharon (Oxford Journals Online, 2004-01)

For the first time in Ireland this study seeks to locate food poverty within a social exclusion framework wherein the inabili ty to enjoy an adequate and nutritious diet impacts on both health and well-being of individuals ...

What makes mental health promotion effective?

Barry, Margaret M. (SAGE Journals Online, 2005-06-01)

When designing a comprehensive strategy for mental health promotion, as that called for in the European WHO Action Plan for Mental Health (WHO, 2005), one possible effective framework for such a strategy is to take a ...

What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers lives.

Clarke, Aleisha M. (Taylor & Francis, 2009-05-07)

To investigate what keeps teachers motivated on a day¿to¿day basis, we traced the importance of routinely encountered affective episodes. Significant research on emotions already highlights the relative importance of ...

What works in enhancing social and emotional skills development during childhood and adolescence? A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of school-based and out-of-school programmes in the UK.

Clarke, AM; Morreale, S; Field, CA; Hussein, Y; Barry, Margaret M. (W H O Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion Research, National University of Ireland Galway, 2015)

IntroductionThis review sought to determine the current evidence on the effectiveness of programmes available in theUK that aim to enhance the social and emotional skills development of children and young people aged ...

What’s Consuming Ireland? Exploring expressed attitudes and reported behaviours towards the environment and consumption across three study sites on the island of Ireland

Lavelle, Mary-Jo; Fahy, Frances (Geographical Society of Ireland, 2016)

Household consumption levels are escalating across the island of Ireland. Although emissions from transport and construction sectors have experienced a temporary decrease due to the economic downturn, overall emissions ...

Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework

O'Connell, Emer; O'Donovan, Diarmuid (Elsevier, 2009-08-20)

We conducted interviews with 35 young women recruited from eight community healthcare rural and urban settings across two regions of Ireland. The aim of the study was to explore where these women thought Chlamydia-screening ...

Where phonology meets morphology in the context of rapid language change and universal bilingualism: Irish initial mutations in child language

Müller, Nicole; Muckley, Sarah-Ann; Antonijevic-Elliott, Stanislava (Taylor & Francis, 2018-11-16)

As one of the Celtic languages, Irish is among the few languages in the world that employ word initial mutations (IMs) in order to express grammatical functions. IMs express grammatical information by a way of systematic ...

Who decides what criteria are important to consider in exploring the outcomes of Conversation Approaches? A Participatory Health Research Study.

Mc Menamin, Ruth; Tierney, Edel; Mac Farlane, Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2015-02-06)

Approximately 176,000 new individuals in the United Kingdom and Ireland are diagnosed with stroke annually with up to one third experiencing aphasia. Qualitative research methods are increasingly used to capture the ...