Dr. Mary Hughes
Associate Professor, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Projects

• Title
  • PREPAREDNESS FOR NEXT-REALITY: XR LEARNING ECOSYSTEM FOR TRAINING ON HIGH IMPACT LOW PROBABILITY EVENTS USING XR (NEXT-REALITY)
• Summary
  • neXt-Reality aims to create a pan-European eXtended Reality (XR) based learning ecosystem for training in high impact-low probability (HILP) events preparedness and management, incorporating experts, content, technology, learning culture, end-users and strategy. This learning ecosystem will enhance risk and resilience management capacities and promote the paradigm shift from managing "disasters" to managing "risks" and enhancing resilience. Furthermore, high-quality and needs-tailored training will contribute to preventive action implementation, better societal preparedness, and improved disaster management, essential to risk reduction and minimising losses and costs.
• Funding Agency
  • EU Grants

• Title
  • Scoping Review Digital ANP Service
• Summary
  • Phase 1 of the project to develop an interactive digital ANP service for children who have hydrocephalus, that will be compatible with the CHI EHR.
• Funding Agency
  • Children's Health Ireland
• Date From
  • March 2022
• Date To
  • March 2023

• Title
  • Gravitate Health Project
• Summary
  • Health Information in the Digital Age. Improving patient access, understanding and adherence to healthcare information:an integrated digital health information project.
• Funding Agency
  • Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
• Date From
  • November 2020
• Date To
  • November 2025

• Title
  • What Good Digital Health Looks Like In The New Regional Health Areas (RHAs) Project
• Summary
  • The aim of the current project is to examine organizational strategies that support the effectiveness of digital health implications among nurses and midwives globally and to identify key considerations based on a literature review and insights from advisory group meetings to direct the subsequent steps in the digital health transformation process in new regional health authorities.
• Funding Agency
  • The National Digital Health Clinical Information Office and National Community Operations
• Date From
  • 22 October 2022
• Date To
  • 22 March 2023

• Title
  • Empowering adolescents to lead change using health data: intervention approach to improve the health of students
• Summary
  • Hughes, M., Hollywood E., Banka, P., Brenner M. (2021) This invitation to tender is to undertake research on empowering adolescents to lead change amongst themselves and in doing so improve student health. This document presents a proposal for the development, documentation and support of the implementation of an intervention approach to improve the health of students in four cities (Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana; Jaipur, India; Spanish Town, Jamaica and Fez, Morocco), using locally collected data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) and the Global School Health Policies and Practices Study (G-SHPPS). The intervention approach presented in this document will be based on the Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (Global AA-HA!) and will also be designed line with the Global Standards for Health Promoting Schools.
• Funding Agency
  • World Health Organisation
• Date From
  • September 2021

• Title
  • XR for the next generation training on disasters and emergencies in healthcare
• Summary
  • Benet, M., Adell-Euradia, A., Hughes, M., et al, (2022) The main objective of neXt-Reality is to create a pan-European XR-based learning ecosystem for training in disaster and emergency management, which will incorporate experts (including citizens and their experiential expertise), content (disaster and emergency management), technology (eXtended Reality applications/solutions and neXt-Reality platform), learning culture (pedagogical frameworks and methodological approaches), strategy (open innovation with a living lab approach).
• Funding Agency
  • EU Commission
• Date From
  • September 2022
• Date To
  • September 2025

• Title
  • An Investigation into the impact of Covid-19 on the Irish Health Care System pertaining to outpatients with chronic illnesses
• Summary
  • Crowley, S., Hughes, M. (2022) Laidlaw Scholarship Sinéad is a student in the School of Computer Science. The aim of this online survey of individuals is to discover how Covid-19 impacted outpatients" satisfaction with their care. This will be achieved by the following objectives: · Measurement of the satisfaction with telemedicine hospital appointments · Explore the extent to which telemedicine was used during the pandemic among participants in three different cohorts (common chronic conditions) · Compare the data in relation to three common chronic conditions to see if there is a variance in levels of satisfaction
• Funding Agency
  • Laidlaw Scholarship
• Date From
  • June 2022
• Date To
  • August 2023

• Title
  • Improving practice led research for the benefit of service users: research capacity building for nursing'
• Summary
  • Currently leading on Child Protection strand - identify and investigate the research priorities of PHNs in community area regarding child protection (PI Dr Gobnait Byrne)
• Funding Agency
  • Health Service Executive
• Date From
  • 2019
• Date To
  • 2023

• Title
  • Intervention to improve youth question- asking and provider education during paediatric diabetes visits
• Summary
  • RCT- Development and evaluation of an intervention to improve youth question-asking and provider education during paediatric diabetes visits (PI Prof Imelda Coyne, Brenner M, Hilliard C, Cody D, Roche E)
• Funding Agency
  • National Children's Research Centre
• Date From
  • 2019
• Date To
  • 2022

• Title
  • An Investigaton of Nurse and Midwife Prescribing in Ireland
• Summary
  • Exploring Registered Nurses and Midwife Prescribers current prescribing practice and factors that influence their practice
• Funding Agency
  • unfunded
• Date From
  • 01.06.18
• Date To
  • 31.12.19

• Title
  • Children's Services Nursing Workforce Planning
• Summary
  • Member of steering group for National Supply and Demand Exercise for Children's Nursing in the CHI and Nationally 2018
• Funding Agency
  • ONMSD and CHG
• Date From
  • Sept 2017
• Date To
  • Dec 2018

• Title
  • The Inbetweeners Project
• Summary
  • Development of an Intervention targeting young people who are in need of mental health supports.
• Funding Agency
  • National Children's Hospital Foundation
• Date From
  • 01.03.19
• Date To
  • 30.06.21

• Title
  • Development of a Mobile Application for Adolescents who have Asthma: The `My Asthma App" (MAA)
• Summary
  • Hughes, M., Kroll, T., Savage, E., Cox, D., Regan, D. (2017) (€216,257.69) Unsuccessful Grant Applicaition. Overview of project: Development of a mobile software application (My Asthma APP: the MAA) to support the development of self-care behaviours could provide the support required by adolescents in the out of home hours to enable them accommodate the interruption of asthma in their lives and therefore self-manage asthma more successfully. Methods: The aim of this feasibility study is to develop a mobile software application to support adolescents in managing their asthma. This is a two-arm, randomised control feasibility study, which will achieve the research aims and objectives in 3 phases: Phase 1 Exploration: will comprise of a realist review of the literature. Phase 2 Development: the development of the MAA involving the researchers, adolescents, clinicians, and software technologists. Phase 3 Feasibility: testing the MAA, and outcome measurement using mixed method approach to data collection and analysis. This is a Beta, pre-intervention test for the usability of the software. The results of this feasibility study will enable us to do factor analysis to progress to full trial. Results: This proposed research addresses the need for developmentally appropriate intervention development where psychosocial as well as physiological factors are recognised as important. Building this into the research aim and objectives will ensure a deeper understanding through more than quantitative measures alone. Involvement of adolescents in the design of the MAA will ensure it is a meaningful intervention, tailored to meet the preferences of this cohort of users in addition to supporting the development of accommodating behaviours. The findings will give rise to the potential for this feasibility study to progress to full trial.
• Funding Agency
  • National Children"s Research Centre
• Date From
  • August 2017
• Date To
  • August 2020

• Title
  • Development of `My Asthma Mentor App for Adolescents who have Asthma (MyAM): A two-arm, randomised control feasibility study
• Summary
  • Hughes, M., Cox, D., Savage, E., Kroll, T., Lewis, K. The overarching aim of this proposed project is to design a developmentally appropriate intervention to support the informational needs and development of behaviours in adolescents who have asthma. The specific aim is to combine robust evidence with the involvement of adolescents in order to inform the innovative design, development and testing of a mobile application (My Asthma Mentor: MyAM). Outcomes will be measured based on the quality of the intervention content and characteristics (Anderson et al. 2016, Antezana et al. 2015).
• Funding Agency
  • National Children's Research Centre

• Title
  • National Clinical Handover Guideline (Phase 2: Acute Hospitals).
• Summary
  • Fealy, GM., Donnelly, S., Doyle, G., Brenner, M., Hughes, M. (2015)
• Funding Agency
  • Department of Health, Dublin

• Title
  • Living with Asthma: Perspectives of Irish Adults with Asthma
• Summary
  • Hughes M. (2014) . (Awarded €30,000).
• Funding Agency
  • Boehringer Ingelheim

• Title
  • The Health and Wellbeing Study " An Investigation into the Perceived Health and Wellbeing of those Living with Asthma in Ireland
• Summary
  • Hughes M. (2014) Staff Development Award: MSc by Research Student. School of Nursing and Midwifery UCC (Awarded €6,000).
• Funding Agency
  • University College Cork

• Title
  • Erasmus IP Project
• Summary
  • Mikkonen,I, Tähtinen R., Kostadinova D.,Kerakovska A.,Pontin D., Wallace C., Hughes M, Savage, E, Burton A, Flynn A, Hartigan I. (2013) . (Awarded €44,000).
• Funding Agency
  • EACEA (EU)

• Title
  • Health and Wellbeing of Irish Adults with Asthma
• Summary
  • Hughes M. (2013) Health and Wellbeing of Irish Adults with Asthma. Novartis (Awarded €26,000).
• Funding Agency
  • Novartis

• Title
  • Pilot Online Asthma Educational Intervention for Transition Year Students
• Summary
  • Hughes M. (2013) Pilot Online Asthma Educational Intervention for Transition Year Students. Dyson. (Awarded €15,000).
• Funding Agency
  • Dyson LTD

• Title
  • Oran O"Muire Bursary
• Summary
  • Hughes M. (2011) Oran O"Muire Bursary. The Asthma Society of Ireland (Awarded €1,500).
• Funding Agency
  • Asthma Society of Ireland

• Title
  • Oran O"Muire Bursary
• Summary
  • Hughes,. M., (2010)Oran O"Muire Bursary. Asthma Society of Ireland, Awarded 1500.00
• Funding Agency
  • Asthma Society of Ireland

• Title
  • Information Sharing Preferences of Children with Asthma.
• Summary
  • Hughes M. (2008) Information Sharing Preferences of Children with Asthma. The Catherine McCauley School of Nursing and Midwifery Pilot-Study Grant (Awarded €5,000).
• Funding Agency
  • School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC

• Title
  • A Preliminary Review of the Shared Care Model for Children with Cancer.
• Summary
  • Hughes M. (2006). A Preliminary Review of the Shared Care Model for Children with Cancer. The Martha McMenamin Memorial Scholarship (Awarded €4,500).
• Funding Agency
  • The Martha McMenamin Memorial Scholarship