Emma Nicholson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Nicholson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholson |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6652-2552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This is fine: Using memes to examine resilience, coping, and community for sexual minority men and nonbinary individuals during Covid‐19
Creative and humorous activism, both online and offline, has historically been important for queer communities during public health crises like the AIDS epidemic. Online activism and affinity became critical during the COVID‐19 pandemic due to reduced in‐person healthcare, social support, and resources. General functions of online meme humor expanded during COVID‐19, including using dark humor and defining in‐group political values and positions.…
The role of contextual factors in decision-making by General Practitioners on paediatric referral to the Emergency Department in Ireland: A Discrete Choice Experiment
A General Practitioner's (GP) decision to refer a patient to the emergency department (ED) requires consideration of a multitude of factors, and significant variation in GP referral patterns to secondary care has been recorded. This study examines the contextual factors that influence GPs when referring a paediatric patient with potentially self-limiting clinical symptoms to the ED. Utilizing a discrete choice experiment, survey data was collecte…
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction
Parent's preferences for unscheduled paediatric healthcare: A discrete choice experiment
BACKGROUND: Unscheduled healthcare is a key component of healthcare delivery and makes up a significant proportion of healthcare access, with children being particularly high users of unscheduled healthcare. Understanding the relative importance of factors that influence this behaviour and decision-making is fundamental to ensuring the system is best designed to meet the needs of users and foster appropriate cost-effective usage of health system …
Polybius on the Value of Experience and History (on D. W. Moore, Polybius: (Experience and the Lessons of History)
olybius: Experience and the Lessons of History explores Polybius' views on the relationship between history, experience, and learning, and the value of history in the education of political and military leaders.It engages with the age-old question of 'What is the best way to acquire wisdom and to impart knowledge to others?', showcasing how the Greek historian was a keen investigator of this issue and particularly of finding the right balance bet…
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years: The impact on daytime and out-of-hours general practice
Stuff you think you can handle as a parent and stuff you can’t’ . Understanding parental health‐seeking behaviour when accessing unscheduled care: A qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Unscheduled health care constitutes a significant proportion of health-care utilization. Parental decision making when accessing unscheduled care for their children is multifaceted and must be better understood to inform policy and practice. DESIGN: Nineteen semi-structured interviews and one focus group (n = 4) with parents of children younger than twelve in Ireland were conducted. Participants had accessed unscheduled care for their…
Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders in Patients Referred to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Within a Regional General Hospital
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years: The impact on emergency department attendance
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to improve child health. Ireland, the only country in the European Union without universal access to primary care, introduced general practitioner (GP) care at no charge for children aged under six in 2015. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this policy on attendance at the emergency department (ED). A difference-in-difference (DiD) analysis was applied to visit records of 367,000 paediatric patients at…
Psychosocial Interventions for Family Carers of People With Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Objective:This study aimed to review and synthesize findings of the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions aimed at improving outcomes for family carers of people with dementia. Method: A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. We systematically searched the following databases: Cochrane, PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and All…
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 Public Health Stages on Paediatric Emergency Attendance
This study outlines the impact of COVID-19 on paediatric emergency department (ED) utilisation and assesses the extent of healthcare avoidance during each stage of the public health response strategy. Records from five EDs and one urgent care centre in Ireland, representing approximately 48% of national annual public paediatric ED attendances, are analysed to determine changes in characteristics of attendance during the three month period followi…
Parental Hesitancy and Concerns around Accessing Paediatric Unscheduled Healthcare during Covid-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey
A decrease in attendance at emergency departments among paediatric populations has been reported during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The present study sought to understand parents' hesitancy and concerns around accessing healthcare during the pandemic using a cross-sectional survey of parents of children under the age of 16 ( N = 1044) in Ireland. Multinomial and logistic regression analyses were used to determine the factors…
Apelles, Macedonian
Apelles (?–218 bce ) was one of Philip V of Macedon's advisors, and held a prominent position within the Macedonian court from the beginning of the king's reign in 221 until 218 bce when he committed suicide. He was the head of the “Apelles Conspiracy” in 219/18 bce , which allegedly aimed to sabotage the king's relationship with the Achaian League, its leader Aratos of Sikyon, and his military operations against Aitolia in the Social War (220–21…
Lydiadas of Megalopolis
Lydiadas (also Lydiades) rose to power as tyrant of Megalopolis ca. 245 bce , but abdicated from his position and joined his city to the Achaian League in 235 bce . He quickly rose to prominence in the League, was elected strategos three times, and became a rival of the influential Aratos of Sikyon. He encouraged the Achaians to wage war against the Spartan king, Kleomenes III, in 229 bce and died in battle defending his city in 226 bce .
Leontios, Macedonian
Leontios (?–218 bce ) was Captain of the Peltasts during the reign of Philip V of Macedon. According to Polybius, he was involved in the “Apelles Conspiracy” (219–218 bce ) which allegedly aimed to sabotage the king's relationship with the Achaian League, its leader Aratos of Sikyon, and his military operations against Aitolia in the Social War (220–217 bce ). He was executed by Philip in 218 bce following a mutiny among the peltasts and agema, a…
The impact of a cognitive defusion intervention on behavioral and psychological flexibility: An experimental evaluation in a spider fearful non-clinical sample
The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (Irap) as a measure of obsessive beliefs in relation to disgust
The role of responsibility and threat appraisals in contamination fear and obsessive-compulsive tendencies at the implicit level
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years: The impact on emergency department attendance
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to improve child health. Ireland, the only country in the European Union without universal access to primary care, introduced general practitioner (GP) care at no charge for children aged under six in 2015. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this policy on attendance at the emergency department (ED). A difference-in-difference (DiD) analysis was applied to visit records of 367,000 paediatric patients at…
The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (Irap) as a measure of obsessive beliefs in relation to disgust
The role of responsibility and threat appraisals in contamination fear and obsessive-compulsive tendencies at the implicit level
The impact of a cognitive defusion intervention on behavioral and psychological flexibility: An experimental evaluation in a spider fearful non-clinical sample
Apelles, Macedonian
Apelles (?–218 bce ) was one of Philip V of Macedon's advisors, and held a prominent position within the Macedonian court from the beginning of the king's reign in 221 until 218 bce when he committed suicide. He was the head of the “Apelles Conspiracy” in 219/18 bce , which allegedly aimed to sabotage the king's relationship with the Achaian League, its leader Aratos of Sikyon, and his military operations against Aitolia in the Social War (220–21…
Lydiadas of Megalopolis
Lydiadas (also Lydiades) rose to power as tyrant of Megalopolis ca. 245 bce , but abdicated from his position and joined his city to the Achaian League in 235 bce . He quickly rose to prominence in the League, was elected strategos three times, and became a rival of the influential Aratos of Sikyon. He encouraged the Achaians to wage war against the Spartan king, Kleomenes III, in 229 bce and died in battle defending his city in 226 bce .
Leontios, Macedonian
Leontios (?–218 bce ) was Captain of the Peltasts during the reign of Philip V of Macedon. According to Polybius, he was involved in the “Apelles Conspiracy” (219–218 bce ) which allegedly aimed to sabotage the king's relationship with the Achaian League, its leader Aratos of Sikyon, and his military operations against Aitolia in the Social War (220–217 bce ). He was executed by Philip in 218 bce following a mutiny among the peltasts and agema, a…
Psychosocial Interventions for Family Carers of People With Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Objective:This study aimed to review and synthesize findings of the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions aimed at improving outcomes for family carers of people with dementia. Method: A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. We systematically searched the following databases: Cochrane, PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and All…
Assessing the Impact of Covid-19 Public Health Stages on Paediatric Emergency Attendance
This study outlines the impact of COVID-19 on paediatric emergency department (ED) utilisation and assesses the extent of healthcare avoidance during each stage of the public health response strategy. Records from five EDs and one urgent care centre in Ireland, representing approximately 48% of national annual public paediatric ED attendances, are analysed to determine changes in characteristics of attendance during the three month period followi…
Parental Hesitancy and Concerns around Accessing Paediatric Unscheduled Healthcare during Covid-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey
A decrease in attendance at emergency departments among paediatric populations has been reported during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The present study sought to understand parents' hesitancy and concerns around accessing healthcare during the pandemic using a cross-sectional survey of parents of children under the age of 16 ( N = 1044) in Ireland. Multinomial and logistic regression analyses were used to determine the factors…
Stuff you think you can handle as a parent and stuff you can’t’ . Understanding parental health‐seeking behaviour when accessing unscheduled care: A qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Unscheduled health care constitutes a significant proportion of health-care utilization. Parental decision making when accessing unscheduled care for their children is multifaceted and must be better understood to inform policy and practice. DESIGN: Nineteen semi-structured interviews and one focus group (n = 4) with parents of children younger than twelve in Ireland were conducted. Participants had accessed unscheduled care for their…
Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders in Patients Referred to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Within a Regional General Hospital
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years: The impact on emergency department attendance
Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to improve child health. Ireland, the only country in the European Union without universal access to primary care, introduced general practitioner (GP) care at no charge for children aged under six in 2015. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this policy on attendance at the emergency department (ED). A difference-in-difference (DiD) analysis was applied to visit records of 367,000 paediatric patients at…
Polybius on the Value of Experience and History (on D. W. Moore, Polybius: (Experience and the Lessons of History)
olybius: Experience and the Lessons of History explores Polybius' views on the relationship between history, experience, and learning, and the value of history in the education of political and military leaders.It engages with the age-old question of 'What is the best way to acquire wisdom and to impart knowledge to others?', showcasing how the Greek historian was a keen investigator of this issue and particularly of finding the right balance bet…
Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years: The impact on daytime and out-of-hours general practice
The role of contextual factors in decision-making by General Practitioners on paediatric referral to the Emergency Department in Ireland: A Discrete Choice Experiment
A General Practitioner's (GP) decision to refer a patient to the emergency department (ED) requires consideration of a multitude of factors, and significant variation in GP referral patterns to secondary care has been recorded. This study examines the contextual factors that influence GPs when referring a paediatric patient with potentially self-limiting clinical symptoms to the ED. Utilizing a discrete choice experiment, survey data was collecte…
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction
Parent's preferences for unscheduled paediatric healthcare: A discrete choice experiment
BACKGROUND: Unscheduled healthcare is a key component of healthcare delivery and makes up a significant proportion of healthcare access, with children being particularly high users of unscheduled healthcare. Understanding the relative importance of factors that influence this behaviour and decision-making is fundamental to ensuring the system is best designed to meet the needs of users and foster appropriate cost-effective usage of health system …
This is fine: Using memes to examine resilience, coping, and community for sexual minority men and nonbinary individuals during Covid‐19
Creative and humorous activism, both online and offline, has historically been important for queer communities during public health crises like the AIDS epidemic. Online activism and affinity became critical during the COVID‐19 pandemic due to reduced in‐person healthcare, social support, and resources. General functions of online meme humor expanded during COVID‐19, including using dark humor and defining in‐group political values and positions.…
Medicine (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)