Publications by authors named "L Biesty"
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic marked a unique period characterised by an extraordinary global virus spread. The collective effort to halt the transmission of the virus led to various public health initiatives, including a variety of COVID-19 vaccine trials. Many of these trials used adaptive methods to address the pandemic's challenges, such as the need for rapid recruitment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeonatal encephalopathy: a systematic review of reported treatment outcomes.
BMJ Paediatr Open
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is a serious condition impacting newborns, where therapeutic hypothermia is the standard treatment, yet many still face long-term issues; the paper aims to create a Core Outcome Set (COS) for consistent reporting in studies.* -
- A systematic review of 116 papers identified 386 reported outcomes from NE studies, categorized into 18 domains, highlighting a lack of uniformity as no single outcome was universally reported across studies.* -
- The findings emphasize the need for standardized outcome measures, including family input, to improve the comparison of treatments and enhance research on NE.*
Article Synopsis
- This study looked at how different people, like parents and doctors, feel about the effects of treatments for neonatal sepsis, which is a serious infection in newborns.
- The researchers found 19 important outcomes that matter to these people, like how the treatment affects parents and their babies' organs.
- They concluded that it's important to include these personal views in future research to get a full picture of what's important in treating neonatal sepsis, since the views shared were different from what doctors usually report in clinical trials.
Background: Perinatal loss is a traumatic event associated with a high risk of parents experiencing negative psychological outcomes. Despite most parents being in regular contact with midwives and nurses during the perinatal period, there is a lack of evidence which hampers these professionals from using effective psychosocial interventions with parents.
Aim: This study aims to synthesise the existing evidence on the types of psychosocial interventions delivered by midwives/nurses for parents with perinatal bereavement, their impacts on bereaved parents' mental health and the experiences of midwives and nurses in delivering psychosocial interventions for parents experiencing perinatal loss.
Despite one in three women experiencing abuse by an intimate partner in their lifetime, intimate partner violence (IPV) is under-reported. Globally, IPV routine enquiry is used as part of healthcare response to addressing IPV. This paper presents the views of pregnant women (= 40) and providers (= 30) of IPV routine enquiry as part of antenatal care policy in Ireland.
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