Research Outputs
Publications
Tracey M, Racine E, Riordan F, Kearney PM, McHugh SM. Understanding the uptake of a national retinopathy screening programme: An audit of people with diabetes in two large primary care centres [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]. HRB Open Res 2019, 2:17 (https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.12926.3)
, , , , , . 'It just wasn’t going to be heard’: A mixed methods study to compare different ways of involving people with diabetes and health‐care professionals in health intervention research. Health Expect. 2020; 00: 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13061
Riordan, F, Racine, E, Smith, SM, Murphy A, Browne J, Kearney PM, Bradley C, James M, Murphy M, McHugh SM. Feasibility of an implementation intervention to increase attendance at diabetic retinopathy screening: protocol for a cluster randomised pilot trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2020) 6:64 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00608-y
Riordan F, Racine E, Phillip ET, Bradley C, Lorencatto F, Murphy M, Murphy A, Browne J, Kearney PM, McHugh SM. Development of an intervention to facilitate implementation and uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening. Implementation Sci 15, 34 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-00982-4
Ahern, S., Riordan, F., Murphy, A. et al. A micro costing analysis of the development of a primary care intervention to improve the uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening. Implementation Sci 16, 17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-021-01085-4
Riordan F, Murphy K, Bradley C et al. Acceptability and feasibility of conducting a pilot trial in Irish primary care: lessons from the IDEAs study [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. HRB Open Res 2021, 4:73 (https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13306.1)
How to improve attendance for diabetic retinopathy screening. Research. FORUM December 2021. Issue 59.FORUM article.
I screen, you screen, we all screen for eye screen. Diabetes Ireland. Autumn 2021. 13th September 2021. Diabetes Ireland article
Conferences
Fiona Riordan. Feasibility of a theory-based implementation intervention to increase attendance at diabetic retinopathy screening: a cluster randomised pilot trial (Oral presentation). Association of Departments of General Practice Irish College of General Practitioners Joint Scientific Meeting 2020 (AUDGPI & ICGP). UCC, March 2020.
Susan Ahern. A micro-costing of the development of an intervention to facilitate implementation & uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening (Oral presentation). Association of Departments of General Practice Irish College of General Practitioners Joint Scientific Meeting 2020 (AUDGPI & ICGP). UCC, March 2020.
Dara O'Keeffe. Predictors of attendance at Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: Secondary analysis of data from a structured diabetes care programme. (Oral presentation). Association of Departments of General Practice Irish College of General Practitioners Joint Scientific Meeting 2020 (AUDGPI & ICGP). UCC, March 2020.
Fiona Riordan. Developing and piloting a theory-based implementation intervention to increase uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening (Poster). SPHeRE Network 6th Annual Conference - Data to Policy. Dublin, Ireland, February 2020.
Dara O'Keeffe. Predictors of attendance at Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: Secondary analysis of data from a structured diabetes care programme. (Oral presentation). New Horizons Research Conference, UCC, December 2019.
Emmy Racine. Seldom heard: Evaluating the impact of involving patients and the public in a consensus process to inform intervention development. (Rapid fire presentation). Society for Social Medicine and Population Health, Annual Scientific Meeting. UCC, September 2019.
Fiona Riordan. Development of a theory-based implementation intervention to increase uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening. (Oral presentation). Society for Social Medicine and Population Health, Annual Scientific Meeting. UCC, September 2019.
Fiona Riordan. Development of a theory-based implementation intervention to increase uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening. (Oral presentation). 5th Biennial Society for Implementation Research Conference. Seattle, US, September 2019.
Emmy Racine. Seldom heard: Evaluating the impact of involving patients and the public in a consensus process to inform intervention development. (Poster). 5th Annual Structured Population and Health-services Research Education (SPHeRE) Conference. Dublin, Ireland, February 2019.
Emmy Racine. Seldom heard: Evaluating the impact of involving patients and the public in a consensus process to inform intervention development. (Poster). New Horizons Research Conference, UCC, December 2018.
Emmy Racine. Seldom heard: Evaluating the impact of involving patients and the public in a consensus process to inform intervention development. (Poster). International Perspectives on the Evaluation of Patient and Public Involvement in Research. Newcastle, UK, November 2018.
Holly McGrath. Identifying Effective Methods for Recruiting Patient and Public Involvement Partners in Trials. (Poster). 4th TMRN Trial Methodology Symposium. Galway, Ireland, October 2018.
Research summaries
Download the IDEAs_protocol_summary. Read the full protocol paper here.
Download the IDEAs_development_summary. Read the full development paper here
Download the IDEAsideas_infographic.
Podcast
Listening to The Voice of Experience (LIVE) is a podcast series to promote Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Research” . Ms Emmy Racine worked with members of the IDEAs PPI group to capture and share their experiences to date. Development of the podcast was funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations award and it was officially launched in December 2019. You can listen to the podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/35tgQosz2fPPv44cfcjUoK?si=7Cv_Ss1xS42y4RwIO-rYLg
Student projects
Lauren O Mahony is in her final year of the BSc Public Health Sciences and recipient of the HRB Summer Studentship Award (2020). She worked on the IDEAs project during summer 2020 under the supervision of both Dr Sheena McHugh and Dr Fiona Riordan. Lauren is analysing data from the original IDEAs consensus study (WP1). Her research compared the perspectives of people with diabetes and health care professionals’ in terms of the acceptability and feasibility of proposed intervention content and modes of delivery. By comparing the perspectives of both groups, this work sought to distinguish what is acceptable and feasible to whom, and why. Lauren is currently writing up the results for publication – watch this space!
Dara O’Keeffe is currently studying medicine in UCC. In 2018/19 she undertook a Master of Public Health and completed her dissertation under the supervision of Dr Sheena McHugh and Dr Fiona Riordan. Dara conducted a secondary of people with type 2 diabetes enrolled in the Midlands Diabetes Structured Care Programme. Dara examined levels of attendance at Diabetic RetinaScreen and other screening services and predictors of attendance in this cohort. She is currently preparing this work for publication.
Study materials
Copies of materials used in the study are publicly available on Zenodo