• The impact of short-term predominate breastfeeding on cognitive outcome at 5 years 

  Lenehan, Sonia M.; Boylan, Geraldine B.; Livingstone, Vicki; Fogarty, Leanna; Twomey, Deirdre Marie; Nikolovski, Janeta; Irvine, Alan D.; Kiely, Mairead; Kenny, Louise C.; Hourihane, Jonathan O'B; Murray, Deirdre M. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019-09-13)

  Aim: Breastfeeding is associated with IQ, school attendance and income. Despite the known benefits of breastfeeding, the rate of exclusive breastfeeding up to 6-months is low globally. We examined the effect of short-term ...
• An international study of fear of childbirth and tocophobia with application in an Irish maternity setting 

  O'Connell, Maeve A. (University College Cork, 2019)

  It is normal for women to face childbirth with a degree of apprehension. Women can experience levels of fear from low to severe, phobic fear termed tocophobia. Tocophobia is a severe fear of childbirth which is debilitating ...
• Social, biological, behavioural and psychological factors related to physical activity during early pregnancy in the Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (Cork, Ireland) cohort study 

  Flannery, Caragh; Dahly, Darren; Byrne, Molly; Khashan, Ali; McHugh, Sheena; Kenny, Louise C.; McAuliffe, Fionnuala; Kearney, Patricia M. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-06-20)

  Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the social, biological, behavioural and psychological factors related to physical activity (PA) in early pregnancy.Design: This is a secondary analysis of data from a ...
• Prediction of short-term health outcomes in preterm neonates from heart-rate variability and blood pressure using boosted decision trees 

  Semenova, Oksana; Carra, Giorgia; Lightbody, Gordon; Boylan, Geraldine; Dempsey, Eugene; Temko, Andriy (Elsevier B.V., 2019-07-26)

  Background and Objective: Efficient management of low blood pressure (BP) in preterm neonates remains challenging with considerable variability in clinical practice. There is currently no clear consensus on what constitutes ...
• Interventions for fear of childbirth (tocophobia) 

  O'Connell, Maeve A.; O'Neill, Sinéad M.; Dempsey, Eugene M.; Khashan, Ali S.; Leahy-Warren, Patricia; Smyth, Rebecca M. D.; Kenny, Louise M. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2019-05-02)

  This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: The primary objective of this review is to investigate the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions on reducing fear of ...

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