Jonathan Drennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 79492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Drennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Drennan |
| SIGNATURE | DRENNAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7365-4345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Magnet4Europe Intervention to Improve Clinician and Patient Well-Being: A Quasi-Experimental Study of 56 Hospitals in 6 European Countries
BACKGROUND: Descriptive studies have documented high hospital nurse burnout and turnover but there are few, if any, large-scale evaluations of organizational interventions to improve clinician retention. The Magnet model is an organizational hospital intervention associated with better clinician and patient outcomes but there is insufficient evidence as to whether the Magnet model based on structural empowerment of clinicians results in better ou…
Factors Associated With Missed Nursing Care in Home Care Setting: Insights From the Aidomus‐IT Multicentre Study
Aims: To explore factors associated with missed nursing care (MNC) in home care in Italy. Methods: A secondary analysis of the AIDOMUS‐IT national cross‐sectional study was conducted investigating structural factors, including details on services offered, waiting times, nurses’ working conditions and workload, nurses’ perceptions of the work environment, climate, staffing adequateness, opportunities for career advancements, leadership, level of b…
Ageing well: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing
Friendship and money: A qualitative study of service users’ experiences of participating in a supported socialisation programme
BACKGROUND: Social opportunities can be limited in the lives of people with enduring mental illness (EMI) due to psychiatric stigma, restricted home environments and employment barriers. Supported socialisation programmes have the potential to redress the impact of social isolation. AIM: To explore the experiences of service users with EMI taking part in a supported socialisation programme, using written diary entries. METHODS: This article repor…
The impact of austerity on Irish higher education faculty
Transforming Chronic Illness Management through Integrated Care: A Systematic Review of What Works Best and Why
Exploring the boundaries between interpersonal and financial institution mistreatment of older people through a social ecology framework
Interpersonal financial abuse of older people is well documented but the potential role of financial institutions is rarely examined. Financial institution mistreatment describes direct and indirect practices by financial institutions that threaten the financial wellbeing of older people. This analysis was based on a survey of community-dwelling older people (N = 2,021) aged 65 years and older, and examined self-reports of interpersonal and finan…
Improving social functioning and reducing social isolation and loneliness among people with enduring mental illness: Report of a randomised controlled trial of supported socialisation
BACKGROUND: This randomised controlled trial examined if for people with enduring mental illness, being supported to socialise leads to improved social functioning, increased self-esteem and extended social networks; a reduction in social isolation, social, emotional and family loneliness and a reduction in illness symptoms, namely depression. METHODS: A prospective randomised controlled trial was undertaken from November 2007 to September 2011. …
Nurses' Perceptions of the Practice of Restricting a Child for a Clinical Procedure
Restricting a child for a clinical procedure has been linked to negative physical and psychological sequelae. The practice of restriction remains an implicit and unquestioned aspect of care for children during a clinical procedure. In this study we aimed to describe the practice of restricting a child's movement for a clinical procedure by conducting focus groups with children's nurses. Data were analyzed using a thematic network analysis framewo…
Parents' constructions of the sexual self-presentation and sexual conduct of adolescents: Discourses of gendering and protecting
In this paper, we explore the discourses on sexuality that a sample of parents drew upon when they talked about teenage sexual self-presentation and conduct. The sample consisted of 43 parents (32 mothers and 11 fathers) of young people aged 10-19 years. Data were gathered using in-depth interviews and were analysed using a strategy known as modified analytical induction. Findings indicated that while an acceptance the traditional heterosexual sc…
The Ending of Menstruation: Perspectives and Experiences of Lesbian and Heterosexual Women
This article aims to theorize how a sample of menopausal women, lesbian and heterosexual, construct the ending of their periods, and what the experience means for them. Findings indicate that for most of the lesbian participants (who were in a sizeable minority), emotions of loss at the ending of periods were simultaneously expressed alongside positive feelings, and they engaged in greater introspection around the issue than did heterosexual wome…
Women’s Accounts of Heterosexual Experiences in the Context of Menopause
A number of biomedical models of female sexuality have emerged during the past few decades, and these have been challenged by feminist theorists who have tended to focus on the influence of contextual issues that mediate women's sexual experiences. In this article, a qualitative analysis of accounts relating to heterosexual experiences obtained from 25 menopausal women in Ireland through in-depth interviews is presented and considered in light of…
The silent treatment: Parents' narratives of sexuality education with young people
This paper is based on research undertaken in Ireland that sought to understand how parents communicate with their children about sexuality. Forty-three parents were interviewed and data were analysed using analytical induction. Data indicated that while parents tended to pride themselves on the culture of openness to sexuality that prevailed in their home, they often described situations where very little dialogue on the subject actually transpi…
Menopause Narratives: The Interplay of Women's Embodied Experiences With Biomedical Discourses
Conventional approaches to menopause tend to contrast the biomedical position on menopause with women's actual experiences of it. Rather than focusing primarily on the tensions between these perspectives (biomedical vs. lay), our emphasis here is on the impact of biomedicine in shaping participants' perceptions of their status as menopausal. Based on interview data gathered from 39 women in Ireland, we argue that the cultural authority of biomedi…
Coursework master's programmes: The Student's Experience of Research and Research Supervision
Although the coursework master’s degree is becoming the principal conduit for the delivery of continuing education to the professions, it is one of the least understood or researched academic levels in higher education. Furthermore, little is known of coursework master’s graduates’ experience of research or research supervision following the completion of a thesis as the final assessment of their degree. This article measures graduates’ experienc…
Controlling response shift bias: The use of the retrospective pre‐test design in the evaluation of a master's programme
Traditionally the measures used to evaluate the impact of an educational programme on student outcomes and the extent to which students change is a comparison of the student's pre‐test scores with his/her post‐test scores. However, this method of evaluating change may be problematic due to the confounding factor of response shift bias when student self‐reports of change are used. Response shift bias occurs when the student's internal frame of ref…
Heterosexual experiences of secondary school pupils in Ireland: Sexual coercion in context
This paper reports on data from a wider study of young people's heterosexual experiences in Ireland, but focuses in particular on issues of sexual coercion. Data were gathered from 29 focus group interviews with 102 young women and 124 young men and were analysed using a qualitative research strategy. Drawing on concepts of social coercion and interpersonal coercion, we argue that both female and male participants reported a general sense of soci…
The experience of social and emotional loneliness among older people in Ireland
This paper reports a study of the risk factors for social and emotional loneliness among older people in Ireland. Using the ‘Social and Emotional Scale for Adults’, the social and emotional dimensions of loneliness were measured. Emotional loneliness was conceptualised as having elements of both family loneliness and romantic loneliness. The data were collected through a national telephone survey of loneliness in older people conducted in 2004 th…
Masculinities and young men's sex education needs in Ireland: Problematizing client-centred health promotion approaches
In recent decades, dominant discourses in health promotion have emphasized empowerment, client participation and the notion of people identifying and being facilitated to meet their own health needs. However, there has been little analysis of the concept of 'need' and the possibility, at least, that the fulfillment of some such self-defined needs are not in the interest of social justice and equality. In this article, we present an account of the…
The focus group method: Insights from focus group interviews on sexual health with adolescents
Cognitive interviewing: Verbal data in the design and pretesting of questionnaires
Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to discuss problems that occur in questionnaire responses and how cognitive interviewing can be used to identify problematic questions prior to using the questionnaire in the field. Background. Questionnaire design involves developing wording that is clear, unambiguous and permits respondents successfully to answer the question that is asked. However, a number of problems in relation to respondents' understan…
The focus group method: Insights from focus group interviews on sexual health with adolescents
The experience of social and emotional loneliness among older people in Ireland
This paper reports a study of the risk factors for social and emotional loneliness among older people in Ireland. Using the ‘Social and Emotional Scale for Adults’, the social and emotional dimensions of loneliness were measured. Emotional loneliness was conceptualised as having elements of both family loneliness and romantic loneliness. The data were collected through a national telephone survey of loneliness in older people conducted in 2004 th…
Menopause Narratives: The Interplay of Women's Embodied Experiences With Biomedical Discourses
Conventional approaches to menopause tend to contrast the biomedical position on menopause with women's actual experiences of it. Rather than focusing primarily on the tensions between these perspectives (biomedical vs. lay), our emphasis here is on the impact of biomedicine in shaping participants' perceptions of their status as menopausal. Based on interview data gathered from 39 women in Ireland, we argue that the cultural authority of biomedi…
Coursework master's programmes: The Student's Experience of Research and Research Supervision
Although the coursework master’s degree is becoming the principal conduit for the delivery of continuing education to the professions, it is one of the least understood or researched academic levels in higher education. Furthermore, little is known of coursework master’s graduates’ experience of research or research supervision following the completion of a thesis as the final assessment of their degree. This article measures graduates’ experienc…
The impact of austerity on Irish higher education faculty
Ageing well: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing
Cognitive interviewing: Verbal data in the design and pretesting of questionnaires
Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to discuss problems that occur in questionnaire responses and how cognitive interviewing can be used to identify problematic questions prior to using the questionnaire in the field. Background. Questionnaire design involves developing wording that is clear, unambiguous and permits respondents successfully to answer the question that is asked. However, a number of problems in relation to respondents' understan…
Masculinities and young men's sex education needs in Ireland: Problematizing client-centred health promotion approaches
In recent decades, dominant discourses in health promotion have emphasized empowerment, client participation and the notion of people identifying and being facilitated to meet their own health needs. However, there has been little analysis of the concept of 'need' and the possibility, at least, that the fulfillment of some such self-defined needs are not in the interest of social justice and equality. In this article, we present an account of the…
The focus group method: Insights from focus group interviews on sexual health with adolescents
Controlling response shift bias: The use of the retrospective pre‐test design in the evaluation of a master's programme
Traditionally the measures used to evaluate the impact of an educational programme on student outcomes and the extent to which students change is a comparison of the student's pre‐test scores with his/her post‐test scores. However, this method of evaluating change may be problematic due to the confounding factor of response shift bias when student self‐reports of change are used. Response shift bias occurs when the student's internal frame of ref…
Heterosexual experiences of secondary school pupils in Ireland: Sexual coercion in context
This paper reports on data from a wider study of young people's heterosexual experiences in Ireland, but focuses in particular on issues of sexual coercion. Data were gathered from 29 focus group interviews with 102 young women and 124 young men and were analysed using a qualitative research strategy. Drawing on concepts of social coercion and interpersonal coercion, we argue that both female and male participants reported a general sense of soci…
The experience of social and emotional loneliness among older people in Ireland
This paper reports a study of the risk factors for social and emotional loneliness among older people in Ireland. Using the ‘Social and Emotional Scale for Adults’, the social and emotional dimensions of loneliness were measured. Emotional loneliness was conceptualised as having elements of both family loneliness and romantic loneliness. The data were collected through a national telephone survey of loneliness in older people conducted in 2004 th…
Coursework master's programmes: The Student's Experience of Research and Research Supervision
Although the coursework master’s degree is becoming the principal conduit for the delivery of continuing education to the professions, it is one of the least understood or researched academic levels in higher education. Furthermore, little is known of coursework master’s graduates’ experience of research or research supervision following the completion of a thesis as the final assessment of their degree. This article measures graduates’ experienc…
The silent treatment: Parents' narratives of sexuality education with young people
This paper is based on research undertaken in Ireland that sought to understand how parents communicate with their children about sexuality. Forty-three parents were interviewed and data were analysed using analytical induction. Data indicated that while parents tended to pride themselves on the culture of openness to sexuality that prevailed in their home, they often described situations where very little dialogue on the subject actually transpi…
Menopause Narratives: The Interplay of Women's Embodied Experiences With Biomedical Discourses
Conventional approaches to menopause tend to contrast the biomedical position on menopause with women's actual experiences of it. Rather than focusing primarily on the tensions between these perspectives (biomedical vs. lay), our emphasis here is on the impact of biomedicine in shaping participants' perceptions of their status as menopausal. Based on interview data gathered from 39 women in Ireland, we argue that the cultural authority of biomedi…
The Ending of Menstruation: Perspectives and Experiences of Lesbian and Heterosexual Women
This article aims to theorize how a sample of menopausal women, lesbian and heterosexual, construct the ending of their periods, and what the experience means for them. Findings indicate that for most of the lesbian participants (who were in a sizeable minority), emotions of loss at the ending of periods were simultaneously expressed alongside positive feelings, and they engaged in greater introspection around the issue than did heterosexual wome…
Women’s Accounts of Heterosexual Experiences in the Context of Menopause
A number of biomedical models of female sexuality have emerged during the past few decades, and these have been challenged by feminist theorists who have tended to focus on the influence of contextual issues that mediate women's sexual experiences. In this article, a qualitative analysis of accounts relating to heterosexual experiences obtained from 25 menopausal women in Ireland through in-depth interviews is presented and considered in light of…
Parents' constructions of the sexual self-presentation and sexual conduct of adolescents: Discourses of gendering and protecting
In this paper, we explore the discourses on sexuality that a sample of parents drew upon when they talked about teenage sexual self-presentation and conduct. The sample consisted of 43 parents (32 mothers and 11 fathers) of young people aged 10-19 years. Data were gathered using in-depth interviews and were analysed using a strategy known as modified analytical induction. Findings indicated that while an acceptance the traditional heterosexual sc…
Nurses' Perceptions of the Practice of Restricting a Child for a Clinical Procedure
Restricting a child for a clinical procedure has been linked to negative physical and psychological sequelae. The practice of restriction remains an implicit and unquestioned aspect of care for children during a clinical procedure. In this study we aimed to describe the practice of restricting a child's movement for a clinical procedure by conducting focus groups with children's nurses. Data were analyzed using a thematic network analysis framewo…
Improving social functioning and reducing social isolation and loneliness among people with enduring mental illness: Report of a randomised controlled trial of supported socialisation
BACKGROUND: This randomised controlled trial examined if for people with enduring mental illness, being supported to socialise leads to improved social functioning, increased self-esteem and extended social networks; a reduction in social isolation, social, emotional and family loneliness and a reduction in illness symptoms, namely depression. METHODS: A prospective randomised controlled trial was undertaken from November 2007 to September 2011. …
Transforming Chronic Illness Management through Integrated Care: A Systematic Review of What Works Best and Why
Exploring the boundaries between interpersonal and financial institution mistreatment of older people through a social ecology framework
Interpersonal financial abuse of older people is well documented but the potential role of financial institutions is rarely examined. Financial institution mistreatment describes direct and indirect practices by financial institutions that threaten the financial wellbeing of older people. This analysis was based on a survey of community-dwelling older people (N = 2,021) aged 65 years and older, and examined self-reports of interpersonal and finan…
The impact of austerity on Irish higher education faculty
Friendship and money: A qualitative study of service users’ experiences of participating in a supported socialisation programme
BACKGROUND: Social opportunities can be limited in the lives of people with enduring mental illness (EMI) due to psychiatric stigma, restricted home environments and employment barriers. Supported socialisation programmes have the potential to redress the impact of social isolation. AIM: To explore the experiences of service users with EMI taking part in a supported socialisation programme, using written diary entries. METHODS: This article repor…
Ageing well: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing
Factors Associated With Missed Nursing Care in Home Care Setting: Insights From the Aidomus‐IT Multicentre Study
Aims: To explore factors associated with missed nursing care (MNC) in home care in Italy. Methods: A secondary analysis of the AIDOMUS‐IT national cross‐sectional study was conducted investigating structural factors, including details on services offered, waiting times, nurses’ working conditions and workload, nurses’ perceptions of the work environment, climate, staffing adequateness, opportunities for career advancements, leadership, level of b…
Magnet4Europe Intervention to Improve Clinician and Patient Well-Being: A Quasi-Experimental Study of 56 Hospitals in 6 European Countries
BACKGROUND: Descriptive studies have documented high hospital nurse burnout and turnover but there are few, if any, large-scale evaluations of organizational interventions to improve clinician retention. The Magnet model is an organizational hospital intervention associated with better clinician and patient outcomes but there is insufficient evidence as to whether the Magnet model based on structural empowerment of clinicians results in better ou…
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