Mental Health Care Provision and People with Epilepsy: An Exploratory Analysis

Majella Mc Carthy

Waterford Institute of Technology

Majella Mc Carthy, Waterford Institute of Technology Ms Majella Mc Carthy is a research assistant at the Department of Nursing, School of Health Science, Waterford IT. She holds degrees from Institute of Technology, Carlow (MRes Men’s Health & Obesity) and Waterford IT (BA (Hons) Health Promotion). Majella has previously been engaged as a Project Officer to the EDPRAC project (Emergency Dept Nurse Practitioner Research Study) in the Nursing Research Institute at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, while she also worked as research assistant with the University of Western Sydney. Majella is currently engaged in the Epilepsy and Mental Health research project at Waterford IT which is examining the experiences of people with epilepsy in receipt of mental health care provision in the South East region of Ireland.

Abstract

Background Epilepsy affects more than 6 million people in Europe with recent projections for Ireland identifying more than 37,000 cases. This makes epilepsy one of the most common neurological conditions but despite its... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Majella Mc Carthy (Waterford Institute of Technology)
  2. Louise Bennett (Waterford Institute of Technology)
  3. John Wells (Waterford Institute of Technology)
  4. Michael Bergin (Waterford Institute of Technology)

Topic Area

Mental Health

Session

MH-1 » Mental Health 1 (10:30 - Wednesday, 4th November, Seminar Room 0.54)

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