Research

A key focus for the UCD Department of Psychiatry has been the development of research programmes in the areas of self-harm and suicidality, medical education and in clinical psychiatry/health services research. Our faculty have led out on research in these areas and there is an ongoing programme of work.

Prof Kevin Malone led the Suicide in Ireland Survey which examined the experience of families in the area of suicide. Another project by Prof Malone, the Lived Lives has collaborated with an Artist to develop a programme of awareness in the Traveller community, which has a high rate of suicide.

Assoc Prof Anne Doherty has led local, national and international projects examining the characteristics and predictors of self-harm and suicide behaviours, utilising both local data and data from the National Clinical Programme for Self-Harm and Suicide Related Ideation (see research papers here). Prof Doherty also headed a recent research project funded by the National Office for Suicide Prevention examining suicide in the Irish Traveller population.

Selected suicide and self-harm publications:

  • Malone KM, Cleary E, Kelleher CC, Jefferies J, Lane A, Lucey JV, McGuiness S. Bringing Lived Lives to Swift’s Asylum: a psychiatric hospital perspective. Wellcome Open Research. 2021;6.
  • McLoughlin A, Sadath A, McMahon E, Kavalidou K, Malone K. Associations between humiliation, shame, self-harm and suicidal behaviours among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review protocol. PLoS one. 2022 Nov 23;17(11):e0278122.
  • Malone KM, Cleary E, Kelleher CC, Jefferies J, Lane A, Lucey JV, McGuiness S. Bringing Lived Lives to Swift’s Asylum: a psychiatric hospital perspective. Wellcome Open Research. 2021;6.
  • Doherty AM, Moore S, Corcoran N, Malone KM. Attempted suicide: does lethality matter?. Irish journal of psychological medicine. 2021 Jul 12:1-5.
  • Mann JJ, Apter A, Bertolote J, Beautrais A, Currier D, Haas A, Hegerl U, Lonnqvist J, Malone K, Marusic A, Mehlum L. Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review. Jama. 2005 Oct 26;294(16):2064-74.
  • Soloff PH, Lynch KG, Kelly TM, Malone KM, Mann JJ. Characteristics of suicide attempts of patients with major depressive episode and borderline personality disorder: a comparative study. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2000 Apr 1;157(4):601-8.
  • O'Malley A, McIntyre A, McGilloway A, Doherty A, Hallahan B. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations of self-harm over an 18-month period to a tertiary hospital. Ir J Psychol Med. 2023 Feb 16:1-6.
  • Maguire E, Kavalidou K, Bannan N, Doherty AM, Jeffers A. Substance use and self-harm emergency department presentations during COVID19: evidence from a National Clinical Programme for Self-Harm. Ir J Psychol Med. 2022. doi:10.1017/ipm.2022.36
  • Doherty AM, Axe CJ, Jones DA. Investigating the relationship between euthanasia and/or assisted suicide and rates of non-assisted suicide: systematic review. BJPsych Open. 2022 Jul;8(4).
  • Tong K, Costello S, McCabe E, Doherty AM. Mentalization-Based Treatment in a Naturalistic Setting in Ireland: A Cohort Study. Psychiatric Services. 2021 Jun 9:appi-ps.
  • Kamal S, McGovern M, Kunideliene A, Casey P, Doherty AM. A Comparison of Presentations with Self-Harm to Hospital in Lithuania and Ireland. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18: 2418.
  • Mohan C, Tembo V, McNicholas B, Doherty AM. Defining high-risk by clinical lethality: the characteristics and managements of the survivors of serious self-injury admitted to critical care, compared with lower lethality self-injury. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2020; 64: 131-134.
  • Tanner B, Doherty AM. Suicidal ideation and behaviours among Irish Travellers. Crisis 2020 (in press)
  • McIntyre A, Tong K, McMahon E, Doherty AM. Covid-19 and its effect on emergency presentations to a tertiary hospital with self-harm in Ireland. Ir J Psychol Med. 2020: 1-20
  • Fegan J, Doherty AM. Adjustment Disorder and Suicidal Behaviours Presenting in the General Medical Setting: A Systematic Review. IJERPH (Special Ed, Adjustment Disorder in Liaison Psychiatry). 2019; 16 (16), 2967.
  • Doherty AM, Crudden G, Jabbar F, Sheehan JD, Casey P. Suicidality in Women with Adjustment Disorder and Depressive Episodes Attending an Irish Perinatal Mental Health Service. IJERPH (Special Ed, Adjustment Disorder in Liaison Psychiatry). 2019; 16 (20), 3970.
  • Concannon E, Carr S, Doherty AM, McInerney SM, Birrane J, Kearney L, Hussey AJ, Potter SM, Kelly JL, McInerney NM. Referral of patients to plastic surgeons following self-harm: Opportunities for suicide prevention. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2019; 72 (3), 491-497.
  • Casey P Jabbar F, O’Leary E, Doherty AM. Suicidal ideation and behaviour in adjustment disorder and Depressive Episode. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2015; 15: 174:441-6.

Prof Allys Guerandel has led on a range of projects in the area of medical education in psychiatry, all based at UCD,  and Assoc Prof Anne Doherty has led projects in Simulation-based education in psychiatry.

  • Lane A, McGrath J, Cleary E, Guerandel A, Malone KM. Worried, weary and worn out: mixed-method study of stress and well-being in final-year medical students. BMJ open. 2020 Dec 1;10(12):e040245.
  • Donohoe A, Guerandel A, O’Neill GM, Malone K, Campion DM. Reflective writing in undergraduate medical education: A qualitative review from the field of psychiatry. Cogent Education. 2022 Dec 31;9(1):2107293.
  • Belay HT, Ruairc BÓ, Guérandel A. Workshops: an important element in medical education. BJPsych Advances. 2019 Jan;25(1):7-13.
  • Fernandez C, Guerandel A. An independent appraisal of an electronic OSCE management software system in a Psychiatry examination. MedEdPublish. 2019 Feb 27;8:35.
  • McMahonEE, Tong K, Reid McDermott B, Byrne D, Doherty AM. ‘SafePsych’: delivering a multidisciplinary psychiatry simulation using remote technology — impact on learners and simulation facilitators. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning Published Online First: 19 March 2021. doi:1136/bmjstel-2021-000892
  • Tong K, MacMahon E, Reid-McDermott B, Byrne D, Doherty AM. Safe-Psych: delivering high impact simulation training to doctors in the digital age. BJPsych Open Quality & Safety, 2021
  • Graf J, Smolka R, Simoes E, Zipfel S, Junne F, Holderried F, Wosnik A, Doherty AM, Menzel K, Herrmann-Werner A. Communication skills of medical students during the OSCE: Gender-specific differences in a longitudinal trend study. BMC Med Educ. 2017. 2; 75.
  • Dunlea S, Doherty AM. The Attitudes of Healthcare Students to Mindfulness-Based Interventions. Irish medical journal. 2023 Aug 17;116(7):815.

Assoc Prof Anne Doherty has led both national and international projects examining Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry services, and services for people with comorbid mental and physical health issues (with a focus on diabetes).

Selected clinical psychiatry publications:

  • Doherty AM, Plunkett R, McEvoy K, Kelleher E, Clancy M, Barrett E, Greene E, Cassidy E, Lee W, MacHale S. Challenges and opportunities for Consultation-Liaison psychiatry services in Ireland. J Psychsom Res 2021: 110608. doi:3389/fpsyt.2021.748224
  • Doherty AM, Plunkett R, McEvoy K, Kelleher E, Clancy M, Barrett E, Greene E, Cassidy E, Lee W, MacHale S. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in Ireland: a national multi-centre cross sectional study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 29:2176. oi:1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110608
  • Schaefert R, Stein B, Meinlschmidt G, Roemmel N, Blanch J, Boye B, Carqueja E, De Matteis T, Dineen P, Doherty AM, Ferrari S, Lanvin V, Lee W, Lemmens GMD, Lemogne C, Małyszczak K, Mendes-Pedro A, Nejatisafa AA, Räsänen S, Rosen B, Simões do Couto F, Syngelakis M, Tarricone I, Van der Feltz-Cornelis CM, Huber CG, Fazekas C, Vitinius F. COVID-19-related consultation-liaison (CL) mental health services in general hospitals: A perspective from Europe and beyond. J Psychosom Res. 2023 Apr;167:111183. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2023.111183.
  • Doherty AM, Herrmann-Werner A, Rowe A, Brown J, Weich S, Ismail K. Feasibility study of real-time online text-based CBT to support self-management for people with type 1 diabetes: the Diabetes On-line Therapy (DOT) Study. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care. 2021; 9: e001934
  • Murphy P, Doherty AM, Dinneen S. The Role of Psychological Factors (Personality Traits, Mood, Diabetes-Related Distress, Beliefs about Illness) in Predicting Foot Self-Care in Diabetes. J Woundcare, 2021
  • Tong K, Crudden G, Tang WX, McGuinness D, O'Grady M, Doherty AM. New ways of working: COVID-19 as a catalyst for change in acute mental health services. BMJ Leader. 2021 Jul.
  • Barry H, Doherty AM, Clancy M, Moore S, MacHale S. Lockdown logistics in consultation-liaison psychiatry. Ir J Psychol Med. 2020 Sep 11:1-9. doi: 10.1017/ipm.2020.104.
  • Salmon C, McMahon E, Reilly L, Waldron D, Doherty AM. Anxiety, depression and quality of life screening in palliative medicine: community and hospital pilot study. BMJ Pall & Supp Care. 2020
  • Ismail K, Ridge K, Britneff E, Freudenthal R, Stahl D, Stewart K, McCrone P, Gayle C, Doherty AM. A pilot study of an integrated mental health, social, and medical model in an inner-city setting: Three Dimensions For Diabetes. Diabet Med. 2020: 37; 1658-1668.
  • Barry H, Doherty AM, Clancy M, Moore S, MacHale S. Lock-down logistics in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Ir J Psychol Med. 2020: 1-22.
  • Margiotta F, Crudden G, Byrne D, Doherty AM. Prevalence and co-variates of burnout in consultant hospital doctors: burnout in consultants in Ireland Study (BICDIS). Ir J Med Sci. 2018; 1-10.
  • Rajaswaran T, Plymen C, Doherty AM, Impact of anti-depressant medications in the management of heart failure; a systematic review. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. 2017; 26:1-6
  • Doherty AM, Gayle C, Morgan-Jones R, Archer N, Pryce LL, Ismail K, Werner A. Improving quality of diabetes care by integrating psychological and social care for poorly controlled diabetes: 3 Dimensions of Care for Diabetes. Int J Psychiatry Med. 2016; 51: 3-15.
  • Doherty AM. Psychiatric aspects of diabetes mellitus. BJPsych Advances, 2015; 21: 407-416.
  • Doherty AM, Gaughran F. The interface of physical and mental health. Soc Psych Psych Epid 2014: 49: 673-82.
  • Doherty AM, Jabbar F, Kelly BD, Casey P. Distinguishing Between Adjustment Disorder and Depressive Episode in Clinical Practice: The Role of Personality Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2014; 168: 78-85.
  • Jabbar F, Doherty A, Duffy R, Aziz M, Casey P, Sheehan J, Lynch T, Kelly BD. The role of a neuropsychiatry clinic in a tertiary referral teaching hospital: a 2-year study. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 2014
  • Garrett C, Doherty A. Diabetes and mental health. Clin Med.2014; 14: 669-72.
  • Doherty AM, Jabbar F, Kelly BD. Attitudes and experiences of nursing staff to the Mental Health Act 2001: lessons for future mental health legislation. Ir J Psych Med 2014; 31: 83-87
  • Doherty AM, Kelly J, O’Dwyer AM, Keane J, Cooney JM. A review of the interplay between tuberculosis and mental health. Gen Hosp Psych. 2013; 35: 398-406.

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