Skip to content

Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and Child Health

track_changes Track Tracking Be alerted when new articles are added in this collection (manage your tracking alerts via your account) Stop tracking this collection
Home Collections Maternal and Child Health
1-20 of 52 ARTICLES
Previous Next
 in 
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14463.1
Research Article metrics AWAITING PEER REVIEW
Hospital activity amongst children aged 0–19 with and without life-limiting conditions in Ireland, 2009–2024
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Samantha Smith, Tara Delamere, Fiona McElligott, Mary Devins, Tyrone Horne, Orla Murphy, Lorna K. Fraser, Suzanne Guerin, Peter May, Sinéad O'Hara, Maurice Dillon, Joanne Balfe
Peer Reviewers Invited
  • Funders
  • Health Research Board
  • LauraLynn Ireland's Children's Hospice
  • Irish Hospice Foundation
PUBLISHED 04 Jun 2026
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14454.1
Study Protocol metrics AWAITING PEER REVIEW
Teacher training to support children with childhood brain tumours in school settings: a scoping review of available programmes, barriers, and implementation factors
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Maram Sofiany, Lorraine Duffy, Ailish Malone
Peer Reviewers Invited
  • Funder
  • HRB
PUBLISHED 26 May 2026
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14394.1
Research Note metrics
Policy Brief: Ensuring Future Pandemic Preparedness and Supporting Maternal and Child Health Research in the Republic of Ireland - Recommendations for Policy
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved]
Gillian M. Maher, Julie Arnott, Helen Dolk, Joanne Given, Peter M. Barrett, Fergus P. McCarthy, Séamus Leonard, Maria Loane, Mairéad Madigan, Mary T. O'Mahony, Richard A. Greene, Ali S. Khashan
Peer Reviewers John Kyalo Muthuka
  • Funders
  • Research Ireland
  • Higher Education Authority
PUBLISHED 10 Apr 2026
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14374.1
Study Protocol metrics
Parent-level barriers and facilitators to second or subsequent dose uptake in childhood vaccination: A mixed-methods systematic review protocol
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
Etain Cantwell, Fiona Hurley, Michelle Butler, Paula Flanagan
Peer Reviewers Bronte Davies
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 26 Mar 2026
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14100.3
Study Protocol metrics
Revised
What barriers and facilitators to self-management are experienced by mothers who wish to breastfeed but require concurrent pharmacotherapy in the first two years postpartum? A mixed-methods systematic review protocol.
[version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Lucy Hackett, Deirdre M. D'Arcy, Juliette O'Connell, Samuel Cromie, Déirdre Daly, Tamasine Grimes
Peer Reviewers Ana Veronica Scotta; Sue Jordan; Essi Whaites Heinonen
  • Funder
  • Panoz Pharmaceutical Innovation PhD Scholarship, Trinity College Dublin
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 17 Feb 2026
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14291.1
Study Protocol metrics
Health outcomes related to infant feeding in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland: A scoping review protocol
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved]
Edina Hanley, Jane Bourke, Jennifer Hanratty, Elaine Lehane, Helen Mulcahy, Róisín O'Donovan, Aoife Long, Margaret Murphy, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Siobhan Ward, Patricia Leahy-Warren
Peer Reviewers Tanya M. Cassidy
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 23 Jan 2026
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14304.1
Study Protocol metrics
High ambient temperatures and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Margaret M Brennan, Teresa O'Dowd, Nicholas B Brink, Danielle Travill, Cherlynn Dumbura, Carla Devantier-Du Pleiss, Ursula Gazeley, Lebohang Radebe, Jeroen de Bont, Andrew Parnell, Fergus P. McCarthy, Cathal Walsh, Noel D McCarthy, Matthew F Chersich, Darshnika Lakhoo
Peer Reviewers Huiqi Chen; Claire Masters
  • Funders
  • Health Research Board
  • The College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
  • National Doctors Training and Planning
  • The Health and Social Care, Research and Development Division
  • The Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Health Service Executive
  • Wellcome Trust
PUBLISHED 19 Jan 2026
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14088.2
Study Protocol metrics
Revised
Population-level communication interventions for breastfeeding: Protocol for a scoping review
[version 2; peer review: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Jennifer Hanratty, Karl McGrath, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Elaine Lehane, Aoife Long, Caroline Rawdon, Patricia Leahy-Warren
Peer Reviewers Henriette Knold Rossau; Louisiana Montserrat Sanchez; Jessica L Schue; Monique M. Turner
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 17 Nov 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14263.1
Study Protocol metrics
Influences of the Built, Physical, or Spatial Environment on Breastfeeding: A Scoping Review Protocol
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Andyno Akpanukoh, Anthony Staines, Angela C. Flynn, Claire M. Timon, Aisling Walsh, Regien Biesma, Mary Rose Sweeney
Peer Reviewers Ayoub Al Jawaldeh; Cristina Couto
  • Funder
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
PUBLISHED 14 Nov 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14266.1
Study Protocol metrics
Ethnicity Coding in European Maternity Care Services – Practices and Analytical Approaches to Evaluate Disparities: A Scoping Review Protocol
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Daire Buckley, Laura Cronin, Gillian M. Maher, Joye McKernan, Paul Corcoran, John R. Higgins, John P. Browne
Peer Reviewers James O'Carroll; Nicola Vousden
  • Funder
  • The author(s) declare that this work was supported by financial funding from the HSE Office of National Quality and Patient Safety.
PUBLISHED 22 Oct 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14087.1
Study Protocol metrics
Childhood Obesity as a Predictor of Adult Physical/Functional Mobility; a Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
Muhammad Abu Bakar, Nicholas Clarke, Cliodhna McGowan, Edward Gregg, Killian Ross Walsh, Grace O'Malley
Peer Reviewers Rubén Aragón-Martín
  • Funder
  • Centre of chronic disease and population health research
PUBLISHED 09 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14108.1
Study Protocol metrics
Measurement properties of outcome measurement instruments used to measure caregiver feeding practices and feeding environment, infant diet, and infant anthropometry outcomes: Protocol for a systematic review
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved]
Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Dimity Dutch, Moira Duffy, Eibhlín Looney, Victoria Brown, John Browne, Darren Dahly, Declan Devane, Janas Harrington, Brittany J. Johnson, Rebecca K. Golley, Marian McBride, Patricia Kearney, Jamie Krikham, Anna Lene Seidler, Helen Skouteris, Caroline B. Terwee, Sarah Redsell
Peer Reviewers Julie Lanigan
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 21 Mar 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14003.1
Study Protocol metrics AWAITING PEER REVIEW
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and the long-term risk of maternal retinal disease: a systematic review protocol
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Peter M. Barrett, Cian Carey, Angela Ding Wu, Emma Wallace, Matilda Biba, Karolina Kublickiene, Fergus P. McCarthy, Ali S. Khashan
Peer Reviewers Invited
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 17 Jan 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13935.1
Study Protocol metrics
Refining the Choosing Health Infant feeding for Infant Health intervention and implementation strategy: Re-CHErIsH Study Protocol
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Eibhlín Looney, Moira Duffy, Helen Ahern Galvin, Molly Byrne, Rebecca K. Golley, Catherine Hayes, Tony Heffernan, Aisling Jennings, Brittany J. Johnson, Patricia M Kearney, Colette Kelly, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Marian McBride, Sheena McHugh, Kate O’Neill, Sarah Redsell, Anna Lene Seidler, Elaine Toomey, Karen Matvienko-Sikar
Peer Reviewers Julie Lanigan; Ana Paola Campos; Michelle W Katzow
  • Funders
  • Health Research Board Emerging Investigator Award
  • Health Research Board (HRB) Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland (PC CTNI) Seedfunding
PUBLISHED 26 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13905.1
Systematic Review metrics
Care bundles for women during pregnancy, labour/birth, and postpartum: a scoping review
[version 1; peer review: 3 approved]
Theo Ryan, Tess McGrinder, Valerie Smith
Peer Reviewers Mandie scamell; Soo Downe; Helena Teede
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 24 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13812.3
Research Article metrics
Revised
Cohort profile: Improved Pregnancy Outcomes via Early Detection (IMPROvED), an International Multicentre Prospective Cohort
[version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Gillian M. Maher, Louise C. Kenny, Kate Navaratnam, Zarko Alfirevic, Darina Sheehan, Philip N. Baker, Christian Gluud, Robin Tuytten, Marius Kublickas, Boel Niklasson, Johannes J. Duvekot, Caroline B. van den Berg, Pensee Wu, Karolina Kublickiene, Fergus P. McCarthy, Ali S. Khashan
Peer Reviewers Hongmei Li; Shaun Brennecke; Khanisyah Erza Gumilar; Jimmy Espinoza
  • Funder
  • FP7 Health
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 24 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13713.2
Study Protocol metrics
Revised
The psychosocial implication of childhood constipation on the children and family: A scoping review protocol.
[version 2; peer review: 3 approved]
Yvonne McCague, Suja Somanadhan, Diarmuid Stokes, Eileen Furlong
Peer Reviewers Carol Joinson; Glicia Estevam de Abreu; Nilton Machado
  • Funder
  • University College Dublin
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 18 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13736.2
Research Article metrics
Revised
Evaluating the role that Care Groups play in providing breastfeeding and infant feeding support at community level: a qualitative study in Dedza district in Malawi
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Pieternella Pieterse, Aisling Walsh, Ellen Chirwa, Maria Chikalipo, Chimwemwe Msowoya, Janet Mambulasa, Anne Matthews
Peer Reviewers Patricia Leahy-Warren and Helen Mulcahy; May Loong Tan; Henriette Knold Rossau
  • Funder
  • Irish Research Council
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 12 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13879.1
Study Protocol metrics
Fathers' experiences, views and perspectives of childbirth attendance: A qualitative evidence synthesis protocol
[version 1; peer review: 3 approved]
Nazia AlAmri, Sunita Panda, Valerie Smith
Peer Reviewers Christine Margaret Furber; Maria Noonan; Rakime Elmir
  • Funder
  • Trinity College Dublin
PUBLISHED 06 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13445.3
Study Protocol metrics
Revised
Patient reported outcome measures in childbirth and postpartum maternal quality of life: a protocol for systematic review of measurement properties.
[version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Laura J. O'Byrne, Gillian M. Maher, Ali S. Khashan, Richard A. Greene, John Browne, Fergus P. McCarthy
Peer Reviewers Fiona Dickinson; Christine Newman; Joanna Leaviss; Susanna Carmona Cañabate
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 06 Jun 2024
1-20 of 52 ARTICLES
Previous Next

Are you a HRB-funded researcher?

Submission to HRB Open Research is open to all HRB grantholders or people working on a HRB-funded/co-funded grant on or since 1 January 2017. Sign up for information about developments, publishing and publications from HRB Open Research.

You must provide your first name
You must provide your last name
You must provide a valid email address
You must provide an institution.

Thank you!

We'll keep you updated on any major new updates to HRB Open Research

Sign In
If you've forgotten your password, please enter your email address below and we'll send you instructions on how to reset your password.

The email address should be the one you originally registered with F1000.
Email address not valid, please try again

You registered with F1000 via Google, so we cannot reset your password.

To sign in, please click here.

If you still need help with your Google account password, please click here.

You registered with F1000 via Facebook, so we cannot reset your password.

To sign in, please click here.

If you still need help with your Facebook account password, please click here.

Code not correct, please try again
Email us for further assistance.
Server error, please try again.