Publications by authors named "M R Dowling"

Background: Advanced breast cancer affects approximately 30 % of people diagnosed with breast cancer, leading to distressing symptoms and unmet needs. Despite the consensus on the need for specialist care, access remains inconsistent due to disparities in specialist cancer nurse education.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the acceptability, usability, learning experience and perceived impact of the advanced breast cancer for nurses (ABC4Nurses) eLearning programme on learners' clinical practice.

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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.

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Purpose: To investigate psychosocial vulnerability in informal caregivers of chronic haematological cancer patients and determine the level of psychosocial vulnerability among carers of people living with a chronic haematological malignancy (CHM).

Methods: An international cross - sectional study including caregivers of individuals with a chronic haematological cancer (n = 64) from Ireland (n = 29), Australia (n = 21), the UK (n = 4), the USA (n = 4), and India (n = 6). Caregivers completed scales for loneliness, resilience, stress and caregiver strain using the UCLA Loneliness scale, Brief Resilience scale, Perceived Stress scale and Modified Caregiver Strain Index scale.

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Background: Misinformation represents a serious and growing concern for public health and healthcare health; and has attracted much interest from researchers, media, and the public over recent years. Despite increased concern about the impacts of misinformation on health and wellbeing, however, the concept of health misinformation remains underdeveloped. In particular, there is a need to clarify how certain types of health information come to be designated as "misinformation," what characteristics are associated with this classification, and how the concept of misinformation is applied in health contexts.

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Adoptive T-cell immunotherapy holds great promise for the treatment of viral complications in immunocompromised patients resistant to standard anti-viral strategies. We present a retrospective analysis of 78 patients from 19 hospitals across Australia and New Zealand, treated over the last 15 years with "off-the-shelf" allogeneic T cells directed to a combination of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), BK polyomavirus (BKV), John Cunningham virus (JCV) and/or adenovirus (AdV) under the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration's Special Access Scheme. Most patients had severe post-transplant viral complications, including drug-resistant end-organ CMV disease, BKV-associated haemorrhagic cystitis and EBV-driven post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder.

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