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https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14088.1
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Population-level communication interventions for breastfeeding: Protocol for a scoping review
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved]
Jennifer Hanratty, Karl McGrath, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Elaine Lehane, Aoife Long, Caroline Rawdon, Patricia Leahy-Warren
Peer Reviewers Henriette Knold Rossau
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 07 Jul 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14087.1
Study Protocol metrics AWAITING PEER REVIEW
Childhood Obesity as a Predictor of Adult Physical/Functional Mobility; a Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Muhammad Abu Bakar, Nicholas Clarke, Cliodhna McGowan, Edward Gregg, Killian Ross Walsh, Grace O'Malley
Peer Reviewers Invited
  • Funder
  • Centre of chronic disease and population health research
PUBLISHED 09 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14100.1
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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 1; peer review: 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
  • Funder
  • Panoz Pharmaceutical Innovation PhD Scholarship, Trinity College Dublin
PUBLISHED 10 Apr 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.14108.1
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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 Barrett, Cian Carey, Angela Ding Wu, Emma Wallace, Matilda Biba, Karolina Kublickiene, Fergus McCarthy, Ali Khashan
Peer Reviewers Invited
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 17 Jan 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13935.1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13898.1
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Accessing Anonymised Data from Ireland’s Maternal and Newborn Clinical Management System for Research Purposes
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Gillian M. Maher, Ali S. Khashan, Joye McKernan, Fergus P. McCarthy, Richard A. Greene
Peer Reviewers Rachael Wood; Antoniya Georgieva
  • Funder
  • Irish Research Council
PUBLISHED 04 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13802.2
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Revised
Association between intrapartum fetal pulse oximetry and adverse perinatal and long-term outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Jill M. Mitchell, Siobhan Walsh, Laura J. O'Byrne, Virginia Conrick, Ray Burke, Ali S. Khashan, John Higgins, Richard A. Greene, Gillian M. Maher, Fergus P. McCarthy
Peer Reviewers Maeve Eogan; James X Sotiropoulos and Sol Libesman
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 28 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13797.1
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Which outcome measurement instruments are used to measure core infant feeding outcomes in children up to 1 year of age? A scoping review protocol
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Linda Adair, Lucinda K Bell, Catherine S Birken, Vicki Brown, Darren Dahly, Ann S Doherty, Rebecca K. Golley, Patricia Leahy-Warren, Marian McBride, Elizabeth McCarthy, Andrew W Murphy, Sarah Redsell, Caroline B Terwee
Peer Reviewers Marion M Hetherington
  • Funders
  • Health Research Board
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
PUBLISHED 27 Nov 2023
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13660.3
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Pregnancy and birth complications associations with long-term adverse maternal mental health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
[version 3; peer review: 2 approved]
Elizabeth O Bodunde, Daire Buckley, Eimear O'Neill, Gillian M. Maher, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Karen O'Connor, Fergus P. McCarthy, Ali S. Khashan
Peer Reviewers David Ellwood; Christina Kang-Yi
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 24 Oct 2023
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13656.2
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Predicting perineal trauma during childbirth using data from a general obstetric population
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Gillian M. Maher, Laura J. O'Byrne, Joye McKernan, Paul Corcoran, Richard A. Greene, Ali S. Khashan, Fergus P. McCarthy
Peer Reviewers Jouko Pirhonen; Emilia Rotstein
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 10 Oct 2023
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13574.2
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Revised
A protocol for a systematic review of standardised tools used in perinatal death review programmes
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Emily O'Connor, Richard A. Greene, Keelin O'Donoghue, Sara Leitao
Peer Reviewers Rachidatou Compaoré; Ruby Barnard-Mayers and Collette N Ncube
  • Funder
  • This study is part of a PhD project funded by Féileacáin, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association of Ireland
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 24 Aug 2023
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13500.2
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Exploring the barriers and enablers experienced by people with Cystic Fibrosis and their healthcare professionals in accessing, utilising and delivering maternity and Cystic Fibrosis care during the pre-conception to post-partum period: A mixed methods systematic review protocol.
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Jen Balfe, Jennifer Donnelly, Sarah Tecklenborg, Aisling Walsh
Peer Reviewers Lyndsay A. Alexander; Emily M. Godfrey
  • Funders
  • Irish Research Council
  • Cystic Fibrosis Ireland
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 28 Apr 2023
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13625.1
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Estimating the costs associated with the implementation of a best practice model of care for recurrent miscarriage clinics in Ireland: a cost analysis
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Caragh Flannery, Lee-Ann Burke, Paddy Gillespie, Keelin O'Donoghue
Peer Reviewers Pankaj Bahuguna; Peter May; Justin C. Konje
  • Funder
  • Health Research Board
PUBLISHED 16 Nov 2022
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