| Project title |
The Psoriasis Patient Experience and Impact Survey |
| Summary |
Following a small study to evaluate overall Psorisis satistaction with the servise the team has now developed an indepth questionnaire to audit and evaluate the impact of the attending the nurse led course of phototherapy and the factors that influence this impact.
Research team: kelly Impey (AMNCH), Michelle Greenwood(AMNCH), Carmel Blake (AMNCH), Karen Beesley (AMNCH) Dr Gabrielle McKee |
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| Type of Project |
Evaluation |
| Date from |
2011 |
| Date to |
2013 |
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Phase 1:The Effectiveness of a Structured Educational Intervention on the length of pre-hospital delay in patients at risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS): ACS RESPONSE TIME -INTERVENTION TRIAL |
| Summary |
RCT testing a brief educational intervention and examining its effect on pre hospital delay in acute coronary syndrome patients.The secondary objectives included: to determine factors that influence pre hopsital delay; to determine the impact of the educational intervention on knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about heart disease and ACS symptoms; to compare GTN and ambulance use following an educational intervention; to elucidate the determinants of physical activity in the ACS population and how it changes post cardiac event; to determine intention to attend cardiac rehabilitation, subsequent attendance and the factors that influence this. |
| Funding Agency |
Health Research Board 2007 -2010 |
| Programme |
General programme grants |
| Type of Project |
RCT |
| Date from |
October 2007 |
| Date to |
December 2010 |
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Phase 2 : Pre Hospital delay time |
| Summary |
Following the effectivness of the brief educational intervention in the RCT the team are progressing this study to phase 2, : the development of a the intervention in multimedia web accessible mode.
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University of Kentucky |
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| Date from |
May 2012 |
| Date to |
October 2013 |
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Physical activity in the aged population |
| Summary |
The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) is a major inter-institutional initiative led
by Trinity College Dublin. The study will involve interviews on a two yearly basis with a sample of 8,000+ people aged 50 and over (or their spouses/partners) of their lives, including the economic (pensions,
employment, living standards), health (physical, mental, service needs and usage) and social
aspects (contact with friends and kin, formal and informal care, social participation). I am a member of the cardiovascular team within this project and am responsible for the physical activity aspect of this study. During phase 1 we w ill address the reseach question: What are the determinants and influence of physcial activity across the aged cohort?
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Observational Longitudinal survey |
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| Date from |
2007 |
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Cardiac Nurses Heart Disease Knowledge Study |
| Summary |
This study seeks to explore cardiac nurse’s knowledge, how cardiac nurses
acquire this knowledge and the factors that influence our knowledge level.
Reaserch team: Irish Cardiac Nurses ASSociation Committee : Dr Gabrielle McKee (PI) Mary Kerins, Emer Lodge,Carmel Conlon, Audrey Kearns,
Geraldine Lynch, Kate O’Donovan, Eric Reyes, Elizabeth Reilly, Rita Smith, Cecilia Tracy. |
| Funding Agency |
Irish Heart Foundation |
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| Type of Project |
Survey |
| Date from |
2012 |
| Date to |
2013 |
| Person Months |
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Gabrielle McKee, Mary Mooney, Sharon O'Donnell, Frances O'Brien, Martha J. Biddle, Debra K. Moser , Multivariate analysis of predictors of pre-hospital delay in acute coronary syndrome, International Journal of Cardiology, (April ), 2013, p1-11
Notes: [ available on line ]
DOI |
Mary Kerins, Gabrielle McKee, Kathleen Bennett, Contributing factors to patient non-attendance at and non-completion of Phase III cardiac rehabilitation , European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 10, 2011, p31 - 36
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| Fleming S, McKee G, Huntley-Moore S., Undergraduate Nursing students Learning Styles: A Longitudinal study , Nurse Education Today, 31, (5), 2011, p444 - 449 |
Gabrielle McKee, Paul Costello, Audrey Adams, Michael Porter, The Use of a Supplementary Online Learning Course, and its Effect on Academic Achievement within an Undergraduate Nursing Programme, The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2, (1), 2010
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| Mary Kerins, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Marie Spain, Marie O'Neill, Karen Morrison, Jo Bannon, Gabrielle McKee , A Descriptive Study of some Outcome Measures in Cardiac Rehabilitation: Obesity, Physical Fitness, Anxiety and Depression, 3rd Annual Research, Clinical Audit & Quality Improvement Seminar 2010 St James Hospital , Dublin, 20th May 2010, 2010 |
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