Michelle Kearns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3800364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Kearns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Kearns |
| SIGNATURE | KEARNS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Caredoc |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4159-0145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Use of dispensing robot to enhance capacity for community pharmacy workforce
Introduction: Community pharmacists are healthcare professionals located in the heart of communities and integrated with daily life. Slaintecare [1], plans to further utilise the expertise and skills of the community pharmacist but the community pharmacy workforce is stretched beyond capacity. A pharmacy-based Workforce Intelligence Report 2023[2] identified process innovations and digital solutions as necessary for the future sustainability of t…
Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone
The study establishes the validity of a new measure of child and adolescent hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use and based on social evolutionary theory. The measure advances the fields of psychometrics and happiness studies by providing the first a-contextual assessment of both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing that is suitable for use with children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Personal and Social Assessmen…
Digital solutions supporting Integrated Care
IntroductionDigital solutions supporting Integrated Care; are you using digital solutions to support integrated care, how can you see digital solutions work for patients, your organisation and you in to the future. There is an opportunity to enhance patient care and use clinician time appropriately if they are supported by the correct digital solutions, eHealth, and technology. It is not enough to digitise a process and call it a success. Real me…
Multiple group membership supports resilience and growth in response to violence and abuse
This paper examines the role that social group processes, and multiple group membership in particular, play in supporting resilience and post‐traumatic growth following the experience of violence and abuse. Drawing on social identity theorizing, we develop and test a model that (a) predicts an association between multiple group membership and positive outcomes of resilience and post‐traumatic growth, and (b) explores mechanisms, of personal contr…
The social psychology of responses to trauma: Social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses
Research in clinical psychology and social psychiatry has highlighted the importance of social factors for outcomes following trauma. In this review, we speak to this issue in two ways. First, we highlight the value of a social identity framework for understanding the experience and impact of psychological trauma. Second, we draw on the Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC) to understand reactions to trauma. Specifically, we show (a) t…
Working hard and playing hard: Multiple group membership, exercise and cognitive performance in boys and girls
Inter-professional development for student nurses
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
You Saved My Life”: Integrated wearable technology supported by telephone nurse triage
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Identification Reduces Stigma of Mental Ill‐Health: A Community‐Based Study
The stigma surrounding mental ill‐health is an important issue that affects likelihood of diagnosis and uptake of services, as those affected may work to avoid exposure, judgment, or any perceived loss in status associated with their mental ill‐health. In this study, we drew upon social identity theory to examine how social group membership might influence the stigma surrounding mental ill‐health. Participants from two urban centers in Ireland ( …
Restricted reproductive rights and risky sexual behaviour: How political disenfranchisement relates to women's sense of control, well-being and sexual health
Few studies have investigated the role of disenfranchisement and denial of agency in women's sexual health. To address this, a cross-sectional study of disenfranchisement, control (general and reproductive control) and health was conducted in Ireland, where abortion is severely restricted. Multiple mediation models ( N = 513 women) indicated that general but not reproductive control mediates the association between disenfranchisement and psycholo…
The Community Intervention Team as a means of Improving the transition from hospital to home for patients
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
From local organisational harmonisation to Global change leader: A story of operational success
Introduction: (comprising context and problem statement) Like many countries, Ireland is facing a rise in chronic disease and the underutilisation of healthcare delivered to patients in the community. Services comprise publicly funded hospital and community services, and independent general practitioners. There is overreliance on hospital services and a lack of community services to provide alternative care.Short description of practice change im…
Congestive Cardiac Heart failure patients in the community: Successfully managing complexity and polypharmacy
An introduction: (comprising context and problem statement) Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic progressive condition that affects the pumping power of heart muscles which results in fluid builds up around the heart and causes it to pump inefficiently. Patients who develop decompensated CHF need to attend daily clinics in the hospital and are frequently admitted to hospital for periods of at least 2 days.Short description of practice chan…
ICT supporting clinicians and patients – the key facilitator of integrated care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Darkness into light? Identification with the crowd at a suicide prevention fundraiser promotes well‐being amongst participants
Suicide is recognised to be subject to social contagion, with an elevated risk of adverse outcomes amongst those affected. Drawing upon research within the social identity approach, we hypothesised that, for those bereaved by suicide, identifying with similar others could provide ‘a social cure’. A large cross‐sectional study and a longitudinal study were carried out at a charity fundraiser for suicide prevention, with participants completing an …
Psychophysiological Responsivity to Script-Driven Imagery: An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Eye Movements on Public Speaking Flashforwards
A principle characteristic of public speaking anxiety relates to intrusive mental images of potential future disasters. Previous research has found that the self-reported emotionality of such "flashforwards" can be reduced by a cognitively demanding, dual-task (e.g., making eye movements) performed whilst holding the mental image in-mind. The outcome measure in these earlier studies was participants' self-reported emotional intensity of the menta…
Integrated care in the Caredoc Community Intervention Team
To implement an innovative integrated community intervention team (CIT) to empower patients, support general practitioners, community services and the acute hospital by facilitating hospital admission avoidance and early hospital discharge
Multiple group membership supports resilience and growth in response to violence and abuse
This paper examines the role that social group processes, and multiple group membership in particular, play in supporting resilience and post‐traumatic growth following the experience of violence and abuse. Drawing on social identity theorizing, we develop and test a model that (a) predicts an association between multiple group membership and positive outcomes of resilience and post‐traumatic growth, and (b) explores mechanisms, of personal contr…
Darkness into light? Identification with the crowd at a suicide prevention fundraiser promotes well‐being amongst participants
Suicide is recognised to be subject to social contagion, with an elevated risk of adverse outcomes amongst those affected. Drawing upon research within the social identity approach, we hypothesised that, for those bereaved by suicide, identifying with similar others could provide ‘a social cure’. A large cross‐sectional study and a longitudinal study were carried out at a charity fundraiser for suicide prevention, with participants completing an …
Identification Reduces Stigma of Mental Ill‐Health: A Community‐Based Study
The stigma surrounding mental ill‐health is an important issue that affects likelihood of diagnosis and uptake of services, as those affected may work to avoid exposure, judgment, or any perceived loss in status associated with their mental ill‐health. In this study, we drew upon social identity theory to examine how social group membership might influence the stigma surrounding mental ill‐health. Participants from two urban centers in Ireland ( …
Restricted reproductive rights and risky sexual behaviour: How political disenfranchisement relates to women's sense of control, well-being and sexual health
Few studies have investigated the role of disenfranchisement and denial of agency in women's sexual health. To address this, a cross-sectional study of disenfranchisement, control (general and reproductive control) and health was conducted in Ireland, where abortion is severely restricted. Multiple mediation models ( N = 513 women) indicated that general but not reproductive control mediates the association between disenfranchisement and psycholo…
Integrated care in the Caredoc Community Intervention Team
To implement an innovative integrated community intervention team (CIT) to empower patients, support general practitioners, community services and the acute hospital by facilitating hospital admission avoidance and early hospital discharge
Psychophysiological Responsivity to Script-Driven Imagery: An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Eye Movements on Public Speaking Flashforwards
A principle characteristic of public speaking anxiety relates to intrusive mental images of potential future disasters. Previous research has found that the self-reported emotionality of such "flashforwards" can be reduced by a cognitively demanding, dual-task (e.g., making eye movements) performed whilst holding the mental image in-mind. The outcome measure in these earlier studies was participants' self-reported emotional intensity of the menta…
The Community Intervention Team as a means of Improving the transition from hospital to home for patients
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
From local organisational harmonisation to Global change leader: A story of operational success
Introduction: (comprising context and problem statement) Like many countries, Ireland is facing a rise in chronic disease and the underutilisation of healthcare delivered to patients in the community. Services comprise publicly funded hospital and community services, and independent general practitioners. There is overreliance on hospital services and a lack of community services to provide alternative care.Short description of practice change im…
Congestive Cardiac Heart failure patients in the community: Successfully managing complexity and polypharmacy
An introduction: (comprising context and problem statement) Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic progressive condition that affects the pumping power of heart muscles which results in fluid builds up around the heart and causes it to pump inefficiently. Patients who develop decompensated CHF need to attend daily clinics in the hospital and are frequently admitted to hospital for periods of at least 2 days.Short description of practice chan…
ICT supporting clinicians and patients – the key facilitator of integrated care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Darkness into light? Identification with the crowd at a suicide prevention fundraiser promotes well‐being amongst participants
Suicide is recognised to be subject to social contagion, with an elevated risk of adverse outcomes amongst those affected. Drawing upon research within the social identity approach, we hypothesised that, for those bereaved by suicide, identifying with similar others could provide ‘a social cure’. A large cross‐sectional study and a longitudinal study were carried out at a charity fundraiser for suicide prevention, with participants completing an …
Identification Reduces Stigma of Mental Ill‐Health: A Community‐Based Study
The stigma surrounding mental ill‐health is an important issue that affects likelihood of diagnosis and uptake of services, as those affected may work to avoid exposure, judgment, or any perceived loss in status associated with their mental ill‐health. In this study, we drew upon social identity theory to examine how social group membership might influence the stigma surrounding mental ill‐health. Participants from two urban centers in Ireland ( …
Restricted reproductive rights and risky sexual behaviour: How political disenfranchisement relates to women's sense of control, well-being and sexual health
Few studies have investigated the role of disenfranchisement and denial of agency in women's sexual health. To address this, a cross-sectional study of disenfranchisement, control (general and reproductive control) and health was conducted in Ireland, where abortion is severely restricted. Multiple mediation models ( N = 513 women) indicated that general but not reproductive control mediates the association between disenfranchisement and psycholo…
The social psychology of responses to trauma: Social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses
Research in clinical psychology and social psychiatry has highlighted the importance of social factors for outcomes following trauma. In this review, we speak to this issue in two ways. First, we highlight the value of a social identity framework for understanding the experience and impact of psychological trauma. Second, we draw on the Social Identity Model of Identity Change (SIMIC) to understand reactions to trauma. Specifically, we show (a) t…
Working hard and playing hard: Multiple group membership, exercise and cognitive performance in boys and girls
Inter-professional development for student nurses
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
You Saved My Life”: Integrated wearable technology supported by telephone nurse triage
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Digital solutions supporting Integrated Care
IntroductionDigital solutions supporting Integrated Care; are you using digital solutions to support integrated care, how can you see digital solutions work for patients, your organisation and you in to the future. There is an opportunity to enhance patient care and use clinician time appropriately if they are supported by the correct digital solutions, eHealth, and technology. It is not enough to digitise a process and call it a success. Real me…
Multiple group membership supports resilience and growth in response to violence and abuse
This paper examines the role that social group processes, and multiple group membership in particular, play in supporting resilience and post‐traumatic growth following the experience of violence and abuse. Drawing on social identity theorizing, we develop and test a model that (a) predicts an association between multiple group membership and positive outcomes of resilience and post‐traumatic growth, and (b) explores mechanisms, of personal contr…
Developing a Social Evolutionary Measure of Child and Adolescent Hedonic and Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Rural Sierra Leone
The study establishes the validity of a new measure of child and adolescent hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing designed for international use and based on social evolutionary theory. The measure advances the fields of psychometrics and happiness studies by providing the first a-contextual assessment of both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing that is suitable for use with children and adolescents. The Child and Adolescent Personal and Social Assessmen…
Use of dispensing robot to enhance capacity for community pharmacy workforce
Introduction: Community pharmacists are healthcare professionals located in the heart of communities and integrated with daily life. Slaintecare [1], plans to further utilise the expertise and skills of the community pharmacist but the community pharmacy workforce is stretched beyond capacity. A pharmacy-based Workforce Intelligence Report 2023[2] identified process innovations and digital solutions as necessary for the future sustainability of t…
Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social group (4 works) · Social identity theory (4 works)