Selena graduated with a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin in 2016. Following this, she took up a research assistant post on the pilot study of the Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill-mix Framework in Adult Hospitals in Ireland, in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC. Selena defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘The Development and Piloting of a Discrete Choice Experiment to Measure the Support Preferences of People with Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Ireland’ in December 2020. She took up two part-time post-doctoral researcher roles following completion of her PhD. She worked on mySupport Study: a cross-case analysis of the implementation of the Family Carer Decision Making (FCDS) in six countries. The FCDS is an educational intervention to facilitate family involvement in decision-making regarding end-of-life care for people with dementia. She also worked with the Health Implementation Science and Technology (HIST) Cluster in University of Limerick across a number of projects involving implementation science.
Biography
Selena joined the National Suicide Research Foundation and School of Public Health, UCC in 2021. She initially worked across three projects with a focus on suicide bereavement including a national survey of people bereaved by suicide; an evaluation of a counselling service for people who have experienced traumatic bereavement; and an evaluation of HUGG peer-support groups for suicide bereavement. She now works on the PRISM project led by Dr Eve Griffin. Within this project, she is the primary researcher on a work package which aims to in identify the determinants contributing to the implementation of the National Clinical Programme for self-harm across Irish hospitals.Selena graduated with a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin in 2016. Following this, she took up a research assistant post on the pilot study of the Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill-mix Framework in Adult Hospitals in Ireland, in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC. Selena defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘The Development and Piloting of a Discrete Choice Experiment to Measure the Support Preferences of People with Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Ireland’ in December 2020. She took up two part-time post-doctoral researcher roles following completion of her PhD. She worked on mySupport Study: a cross-case analysis of the implementation of the Family Carer Decision Making (FCDS) in six countries. The FCDS is an educational intervention to facilitate family involvement in decision-making regarding end-of-life care for people with dementia. She also worked with the Health Implementation Science and Technology (HIST) Cluster in University of Limerick across a number of projects involving implementation science.
Research Interests
- Clinical management of self-harm and suicidal ideation
- Suicide bereavement support
- Management of chronic disease
- Health service governance
- Implementation science
- Lived experience
- Mixed methods
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2023) | 'That feeling of solidarity and not being alone is incredibly, incredibly healing: A qualitative study of participating in suicide bereavement peer support groups' O'Connell S;Troya MI;Arensman E;Griffin E; (2023) 'That feeling of solidarity and not being alone is incredibly, incredibly healing: A qualitative study of participating in suicide bereavement peer support groups'. Death studies, [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2023) | 'Evaluation of a national clinical programme for the management of self-harm in hospital emergency departments: impact on patient outcomes and the provision of care' Cully G;Corcoran P;Gunnell D;Chang SS;McElroy B;O'Connell S;Arensman E;Perry IJ;Griffin E; (2023) 'Evaluation of a national clinical programme for the management of self-harm in hospital emergency departments: impact on patient outcomes and the provision of care'. BMC Psychiatry, 23 (1) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Preferences for support in managing symptoms of an asthma flare-up: a pilot study of a discrete choice experiment' O'Connell, S;Queally, M;Savage, E;Murphy, DM;Mc Carthy, VJC (2022) 'Preferences for support in managing symptoms of an asthma flare-up: a pilot study of a discrete choice experiment'. Journal Of Asthma, [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Evaluating the use of participatory action research to implement evidence-based guidance on dementia palliative care in long-term care settings: A creative hermeneutic analysis' Buckley C;Hartigan I;Coffey A;Cornally N;O'Connell S;O'Loughlin C;Timmons S;Lehane E; (2022) 'Evaluating the use of participatory action research to implement evidence-based guidance on dementia palliative care in long-term care settings: A creative hermeneutic analysis'. International Journal of Older People Nursing, [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Psychosocial Outcomes of Individuals Attending a Suicide Bereavement Peer Support Group: A Follow-Up Study' Griffin E.;O’connell S.;Ruane-Mcateer E.;Corcoran P.;Arensman E. (2022) 'Psychosocial Outcomes of Individuals Attending a Suicide Bereavement Peer Support Group: A Follow-Up Study'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (7) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Implementation of evidence-based guidance for dementia palliative care using participatory action research: examining implementation through the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)' Coffey A;Hartigan I;Timmons S;Buckley C;Lehane E;O'Loughlin C;O'Connell S;Cornally N; (2021) 'Implementation of evidence-based guidance for dementia palliative care using participatory action research: examining implementation through the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)'. Implementation Science Communications, 2 (1) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Suicide and Self-Harm Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review of Prospective Research' Saab, MM;Murphy, M;Meehan, E;Dillon, CB;O'Connell, S;Hegarty, J;Heffernan, S;Greaney, S;Kilty, C;Goodwin, J;Hartigan, I;O'Brien, M;Chambers, D;Twomey, U;O'Donovan, A (2021) 'Suicide and Self-Harm Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review of Prospective Research'. Archives Of Suicide Research, [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'The preferences of people with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for self-management support: A qualitative descriptive study' O'Connell, S;McCarthy, VJC;Queally, M;Savage, E (2021) 'The preferences of people with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for self-management support: A qualitative descriptive study'. Journal of clinical nursing, 30 :2832-2841 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Exploring experiences of supports for suicide bereavement in Ireland: protocol for a national survey' O'Connell S;Ruane-McAteer E;Daly C;O'Connor C;Tuomey F;McDonnell L;Arensman E;Andriessen K;Griffin E; (2021) 'Exploring experiences of supports for suicide bereavement in Ireland: protocol for a national survey'. Hrb Open Research, 4 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'Self-management support preferences of people with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies' O’Connell S.;McCarthy V.;Savage E. (2019) 'Self-management support preferences of people with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies'. Chronic Illness, [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Frameworks for self-management support for chronic disease: a cross-country comparative document analysis' O'Connell, S;Mc Carthy, VJC;Savage, E (2018) 'Frameworks for self-management support for chronic disease: a cross-country comparative document analysis'. BMC Health Services Research, 18 [DOI] [Details] |
Published Reports
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2022) | AfterWords: A survey of people bereaved by suicide in Ireland. O’Connell S, Tuomey F, O’Brien C, Daly C, Ruane-McAteer E, Khan A, McDonnell L, Arensman E, Andriessen K, Grennan A, Griffin E (2022) AfterWords: A survey of people bereaved by suicide in Ireland. National Suicide Research Foundation and HUGG, Cork and Dublin. [Details] |