Health and wellbeing
Research on children’s health and wellbeing encompasses the big issues in child health from conception to young adult life that ensure children thrive and develop.
Theme Overview
Including pregnancy, allergy, nutrition and growth and the disciplines of obstetrics, paediatrics, neuroscience, neurophysiology, psychology, occupational science and occupational therapy, engineering and bioinformatics. This theme includes research focused on prevention, detection and treatment of common childhood illnesses, examining the factors that influence children's growth and development, with a particular focus on the developing brain. The theme aims to make breakthroughs in the fields of assessment, prediction and detection of early brain injury, and the effect of this on lifelong health and wellbeing, with an additional focus on mental health and wellbeing. It includes children’s experiences of healthcare, including their consent to medical treatment, and access to health information and education.
Health and wellbeing publications
We aim to share information about children's health and wellbeing, in lots of different ways – browse our publications in this section.
Where possible, we make the full texts of our publications openly available. If you are unable to access the full texts of any of our publications, please contact us and we will send them to you.
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | Experience, Recurrent miscarriage | 2023 |
Factors that shape recurrent miscarriage care experiences: findings from a national survey |
While overall experience of recurrent miscarriage care was poor, we identified areas that could potentially improve people’s care experiences such as information provision, supportive care, communication, and care coordination across settings. | More details Read publication |
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Policy brief |
Policy brief | Audit / Service evaluation, Perinatal mortality, Stillbirth | 2023 |
Irish inquiry reports relating to perinatal deaths and pregnancy loss services: What can we learn? PLRG Policy Brief 12 |
PLRG Policy Brief, March 2023 | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | Awareness / Knowledge, Fatal fetal anomaly, Perinatal palliative care, Termination of pregnancy | 2023 |
Critical discourse analysis on the influence of media commentary on fatal fetal anomaly in Ireland |
There are significant misrepresentations in the information being delivered to the public on fatal fetal anomalies. Healthcare professionals need to analyse information available to the public and engage in media literacy and to develop these skills in their patients. | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | Audit / Service evaluation, Infertility / IVF / Medically Assisted Reproduction, Recurrent miscarriage | 2023 |
An examination of care received by women with recurrent miscarriage and infertility against guideline-based key performance indicators |
We used guideline-based KPIs to examine care for women with recurrent miscarriage and infertility. Most KPIs were met; areas for improvement were counselling on risk factors & treatments, and access to genetic counselling, ultrasound and cytogenetics. | More details Read publication |
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Policy brief |
Policy brief | Impact, Perinatal mortality, Stillbirth | 2023 |
The impact of perinatal death on healthcare staff: A rationale for change in education, training and introduction of support systems. PLRG Policy Brief 11 |
PLRG Policy Brief, February 2023 | More details Read publication |
Case Studies
Case Studies (Alternate)
Read about the impact of our work in our case studies