6 results match your criteria: "St. Fintan's Hospital[Affiliation]"
Co-designing a virtual reality exposure therapy with students experiencing school anxiety: a proof-of-concept study.
Ir J Psychol Med
September 2024
University of Limerick, Laois-Offaly Mental Health Services, St. Fintan's Hospital, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Ireland.
Background And Objectives: Anxiety related school avoidance can affect up to 5% of a country's students each year. VRET (Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) is a novel therapy proven to be as effective as conventional approaches for treating many anxiety disorders. The aim of this research is to co-design and evaluate a VRET intervention for students experiencing school related anxiety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRemission and recovery from first-episode psychosis in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of long-term outcome studies.
Br J Psychiatry
December 2017
John Lally, MB MSc MRCPsych, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, London, UK, and Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, and Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Olesya Ajnakina, MSc PhD, Department of Psychosis Studies, IoPPN, King's College London, London, UK; Brendon Stubbs, MSc MCSP PhD, Health Service and Population Research Department, IoPPN, King's College London, and Physiotherapy Department, South London and Maudsley National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, London, UK; Michael Cullinane, MB MRCPsych, Young Adult Mental Health Services, St Fintan's Hospital, Portlaoise, Ireland; Kieran C. Murphy, MMedSci PhD FRCPI FRCPsych, Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Fiona Gaughran, MD FRCPI FRCP FRCPsych, National Psychosis Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, IoPPN, Kings College London, and Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, South London Psychosis Research Team, London, UK; Robin M. Murray, MD DSc FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci FRS, IoPPN, King's College London, and National Psychosis Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Remission and recovery rates for people with first-episode psychosis (FEP) remain uncertain.To assess pooled prevalence rates of remission and recovery in FEP and to investigate potential moderators.We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess pooled prevalence rates of remission and recovery in FEP in longitudinal studies with more than 1 year of follow-up data, and conducted meta-regression analyses to investigate potential moderators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopment of the four-item Letter and Shape Drawing test (LSD-4): A brief bedside test of visuospatial function.
Psychiatry Res
January 2017
Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Ireland; Cognitive Impairment Research Group, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Ireland; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Limerick, Ireland. Electronic address:
Conventional bedside tests of visuospatial function such as the Clock Drawing (CDT) and Intersecting Pentagons (IPT) lack consistency in delivery and interpretation. We compared performance on a novel test of visuospatial ability - the LSD - with the IPT, CDT and MMSE in 180 acute elderly medical inpatients [mean age 79.7±7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAttention, vigilance and visuospatial function in hospitalized elderly medical patients: Relationship to neurocognitive diagnosis.
J Psychosom Res
November 2016
Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Ireland; Cognitive Impairment Research Group, Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Ireland; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Limerick, Ireland. Electronic address:
Objective: Efficient detection of neurocognitive disorders is a key diagnostic challenge. We explored how simple bedside tests of attention, vigilance and visuospatial function might assist in identifying delirium in hospitalized patients.
Methods: Performance on a battery of bedside cognitive tests was compared in elderly medical inpatients with DSM-IV delirium, dementia, comorbid delirium-dementia, and no neurocognitive disorder.
Pulmonary embolism secondary to clozapine therapy.
Ir J Psychol Med
September 2009
St Fintan's Hospital,Portlaoise,Co Laois,Ireland.
Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic indicated for paranoid schizophrenia (treatment resistant type). However its use has been limited by the well established association with neutropenia and agranulocytosis. It has also been suggested that clozapine therapy is associated with other serious adverse effects such as fatal myocarditis or cardiomyopathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence of psychological distress in Irish female adolescents.
J Adolesc
December 1990
St. Fintan's Hospital, Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland.
Some female adolescents (N = 132) attending two inner city Dublin schools completed the Youth Self Report Questionnaire (YSRQ). Of this group 15.4 per cent obtained a Total Problem Score in the clinical range.
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