Research Profile

Mohamad Saab

Biography

Dr Mohamad M. Saab is Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies in the UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery. He holds a BSc in Nursing (2008, distinction) and MSc in Advanced Practice Nursing (2013, distinction) from the American University of Beirut, Rafic Hariri School of Nursing, and a PhD in Nursing by publication (2017, 10 publications) as well as a Postgraduate Certificate (2017) and Diploma (2018) in Teaching and Learning in Higher education from UCC. Mohamad is a Registered General Nurse, Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
Mohamad has €2.5 million in research funding, including more than €500,000 as Principal Investigator. He has recently secured Health Research Board Definitive Intervention and Feasibility Award (HRB DIFA) funding to the value of €391,369 in order test the feasibility of a virtual reality (VR) intervention to promote awareness of testicular diseases among Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) players in Ireland.

Dr Saab has over 70 research outputs including a number of peer-reviewed publications (full list of publication available at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bIOjJ-YAAAAJ&hl=en). He is research active in using VR in men’s health promotion and VR simulation in nursing education. Other topics include lung cancer referral pathways; health disparities including gender and sexual minorities; mental health research; nursing leadership; patient safety; and cancer awareness and survivorship.

Mohamad currently serves as Associate Editor in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention and the International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health and Reviewer in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Nursing Research, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Cancer Nursing, and Psycho-oncology, among others. Over the past 10 years, he presented his work in over 50 national and international conferences and won multiple oral and poster presentation awards. 

At the UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dr Saab directs the PhD and MSc Research programmes and coordinates the first year of the MSc in Advanced Practice (Nursing/Midwifery). He is Module Leader and teaches on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, with a focus on oncology nursing, palliative care, simulation, and nursing research.

Dr Saab Chairs the School's Graduate Studies Committee. He is member of a number of School and University committees and research groups (e.g., Academic Council, Quality Improvement Committee, College Council, Research Committee, Graduate Committee, Enhancing Cancer Awareness and Survivorship Programmes [E.CASP]) research group, among others). He is Co-Chair of the School of Nursing And Midwifery’s Athena SWAN committee. He was heavily involved in preparing the application which granted the School its Athena SWAN Bronze award, making it the first School of Nursing and Midwifery to receive this prestigious award in Ireland. 

Research Interests

Dr Saab currently has over 70 research outputs and has a number of manuscripts that are currently under review and in preparation for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Full publications available at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bIOjJ-YAAAAJ&hl=en. He as expertise in various research methodologies including: systematic reviews, intervention development and testing, qualitative research, and theoretical framework development. 

Dr Saab is research active in four key areas: 
  1. Cancer and palliative care: awareness and help-seeking for testicular and lung cancers; public health messaging to promote testicular and lung cancer awareness; using virtual reality to raise testicular cancer awareness; lung cancer referral pathways; men's cancer information seeking; palliative care in older adults; cancer survivorship service provision. 
  2. Patient safety: early warning system education; serious reportable patient safety incidents.
  3. Mental health: suicide risk assessment; mental health in adolescents. 
  4. Nursing education/continuous professional development: peer group clinical supervision; compassionate care education; using virtual reality in nursing education. 

Research Grants

 ProjectFunding
Body
Start DateEnd DateAward
Foundation for NursingFoundation Funded Research01-NOV-1921-SEP-21€4,490.00
Early Detection of CancerDepartment of Health25-NOV-1930-NOV-21€24,000.00
Barriers, facilitators, and strategies to recognise and refer high-risk individuals with lung cancer ‘alarm’ symptoms: A qualitative study with primary healthcare professionals.Irish Funded Research Non Exchequer17-DEC-2001-AUG-23€20,325.00
Enhanced Communication Tools (ECT): An Educational Intervention for HPV Health Promotion in General PracticeOther: Not Listed01-JAN-19€24,765.00
National Cancer Survivorship Needs Assessment: Research to Scope Out and Map Cancer Survivorship Services in The Irish ContextHealth Service Executive01-JAN-18€30,000.00
Enhancing Men’s Awareness of Testicular Disorders Using a Virtual Reality Intervention: The E-MAT StudyOther: Not Listed03-SEP-1411-DEC-17€71,080.00
A Systematic Review of the Clinical & Economic Literature on National Early Warning Score (NEWS)Other: Not Listed01-OCT-1431-DEC-15€22,735.00
Independent Programme Evaluation of the Leaders for Compassionate Care ProgrammeHealth Service Executive01-DEC-1629-MAY-17€30,000.00
The Men’s Cancer prevention and Health literacy: The MeCHanic StudyIrish Cancer Society01-DEC-1631-MAY-17€28,000.00

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

 YearPublication
(2021)'Promoting lung cancer awareness, help-seeking and early detection: a systematic review of interventions'
Saab MM;FitzGerald S;Noonan B;Kilty C;Collins A;Lyng Á;Kennedy U;O'Brien M;Hegarty J; (2021) 'Promoting lung cancer awareness, help-seeking and early detection: a systematic review of interventions'. Health promotion international, [DOI] [Details]
(2021)'The use of film-based interventions in adolescent mental health education: A systematic review'
Goodwin J;Saab MM;Dillon CB;Kilty C;McCarthy A;O'Brien M;Philpott LF; (2021) 'The use of film-based interventions in adolescent mental health education: A systematic review'. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 137 [DOI] [Details]
(2021)'Awareness and help-seeking for early signs and symptoms of lung cancer: A qualitative study with high-risk individuals'
Saab MM;Noonan B;Kilty C;FitzGerald S;Collins A;Lyng Á;Kennedy U;O'Brien M;Hegarty J; (2021) 'Awareness and help-seeking for early signs and symptoms of lung cancer: A qualitative study with high-risk individuals'. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 50 [DOI] [Details]
(2020)'An international perspective on definitions and terminology used to describe serious reportable patient safety incidents: A systematic review'
Hegarty, Josephine; Flaherty, Sarah Jane; Saab, Mohamad M.; Goodwin, John; Walshe, Nuala; Wills, Teresa; McCarthy, Vera J. C.; Murphy, Siobhan; Cutliffe, Alana; Meehan, Elaine; Landers, Ciara; Lehane, Elaine; Lane, Aoife; Landers, Margaret; Kilty, Caroline; Madden, Deirdre; Tumelty, Mary; Naughton, Corina (2020) 'An international perspective on definitions and terminology used to describe serious reportable patient safety incidents: A systematic review'. Journal of Patient Safety, 17 (8):1-8 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2020)'Staff awareness of suicide and self-harm risk in healthcare settings: A mixed-methods systematic review'
Dillon, Christina B.; Saab, Mohamad M.; Meehan, Elaine; Goodwin, John; Murphy, Margaret; Heffernan, Sinead; Greaney, Sonya; Kilty, Caroline; Hartigan, Irene; Chambers, Derek; Twomey, Una; Horgan, Aine (2020) 'Staff awareness of suicide and self-harm risk in healthcare settings: A mixed-methods systematic review'. Journal of Affective Disorders, 276 :898-906 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2020)'Public Health Messaging and Strategies to Promote "SWIFT" Lung Cancer Detection: a Qualitative Study Among High-Risk Individuals'
Saab, MM;Kilty, C;Noonan, B;FitzGerald, S;Collins, A;Lyng, A;Kennedy, U;Hegarty, J (2020) 'Public Health Messaging and Strategies to Promote "SWIFT" Lung Cancer Detection: a Qualitative Study Among High-Risk Individuals'. Journal Of Cancer Education, [DOI] [Details]
(2019)'Testicular awareness: The what, the why, and the how'
Saab M.M.;Hegarty J.;Landers M. (2019) 'Testicular awareness: The what, the why, and the how'. International Journal Of Men'S Social And Community Health, 2 (1):e1-e10 [DOI] [Details]
(2019)'The impact of compassionate care education on nurses: a mixed-method systematic review'
Coffey, Alice; Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Cornally, Nicola; Hegarty, Josephine; Drennan, Jonathan; Lunn, Cora; Savage, Eileen (2019) 'The impact of compassionate care education on nurses: a mixed-method systematic review'. Journal of Advanced Nursing,   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2019)'Health Literacy Influences Men's Active and Passive Cancer Information Seeking'
Drummond FJ;Reidy M;von Wagner C;Livingstone V;Drennan J;Murphy M;Fowler C;Saab MM;O'Mahony M;Hegarty J; (2019) 'Health Literacy Influences Men's Active and Passive Cancer Information Seeking'. Health Literacy Research And Practice, 3 (3) [DOI] [Details]
(2019)'Impact of a compassionate care leadership programme'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Drennan, Jonathan; Cornally, Nicola; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine; Savage, Eileen; Lunn, Cora; Coffey, Alice (2019) 'Impact of a compassionate care leadership programme'. British Journal of Nursing, 28 (11):708-714   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2018)'Feasibility and usability of a virtual reality intervention to enhance men’s awareness of testicular disorders (E-MAT)'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Cooke, Eoghan; Murphy, David; Hegarty, Josephine (2018) 'Feasibility and usability of a virtual reality intervention to enhance men’s awareness of testicular disorders (E-MAT)'. Virtual Reality,   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2016)'PALLIATIVE CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS: STATE OF THE ART IN LEBANON'
Abu-Saad Huijer H;Saab M;Hajjar R; (2016) 'PALLIATIVE CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS: STATE OF THE ART IN LEBANON'. Le Journal Medical Libanais. The Lebanese Medical Journal, 64 (1) [Details]
(2018)'The Preconscious Awareness to Action Framework: An Application to Promote Testicular Awareness'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine (2018) 'The Preconscious Awareness to Action Framework: An Application to Promote Testicular Awareness'. Nursing Research, 67 (2):169-176 [Full Text] [Details]
(2018)'Promoting men’s awareness, self-examination, and help-seeking for testicular disorders: a systematic review of interventions'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Davoren, Martin; Murphy, Aileen; Murphy, David; Cooke, Eoghan; Landers, Margaret; Fitzgerald, Serena; Richardson, Noel; Rovito, Michael; Von Wagner, Christian (2018) 'Promoting men’s awareness, self-examination, and help-seeking for testicular disorders: a systematic review of interventions'. Hrb Open Research, 1 (16):1-19 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2018)'Enhancing Men's Awareness of Testicular Disorders Using a Virtual Reality Intervention: A Pre-Post Pilot Study'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Cooke, Eoghan; Murphy, David; Davoren, Martin; Hegarty, Josephine (2018) 'Enhancing Men's Awareness of Testicular Disorders Using a Virtual Reality Intervention: A Pre-Post Pilot Study'. Nursing Research, 67 (5):349-358 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2018)'Males' Awareness of Benign Testicular Disorders: An Integrative Review'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine (2018) 'Males' Awareness of Benign Testicular Disorders: An Integrative Review'. American Journal of Mens Health, 12 (3):556-566 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2018)'Promoting men’s knowledge of cancer risk reduction: A systematic review of interventions'
Reidy, Mary; Saab, Mohamad M.; Hegarty, Josephine; Von Wagner, Christian; O’Mahony, Mairin; Murphy, Mike; Drummond, Frances J. (2018) 'Promoting men’s knowledge of cancer risk reduction: A systematic review of interventions'. Patient Education and Counseling,   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2018)'The Preconscious Awareness to Action Framework: an application to promote testicular awareness'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine (2018) 'The Preconscious Awareness to Action Framework: an application to promote testicular awareness'. Nursing Research, 67 (2):169-176 [DOI] [Details]
(2018)'Abstracts of the MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting 2018 Supportive Care in Cancer MASCC/ISOO ANNUAL MEETING ON SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER Vienna, Austria 28-30 June 2018 Abstracts'
(2018) 'Abstracts of the MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting 2018 Supportive Care in Cancer MASCC/ISOO ANNUAL MEETING ON SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER Vienna, Austria 28-30 June 2018 Abstracts'. Supportive Care In Cancer, 26 :41-339 [DOI] [Details]
(2017)'The effect of adult Early Warning Systems education on nurses’ knowledge, confidence and clinical performance: A systematic review'
Saab, Mohamad M.; McCarthy, Bridie; Andrews, Tom; Savage, Eileen; Drummond, Frances J.; Walshe, Nuala; Forde, Mary; Breen, Dorothy; Henn, Patrick; Drennan, Jonathan; Hegarty, Josephine (2017) 'The effect of adult Early Warning Systems education on nurses’ knowledge, confidence and clinical performance: A systematic review'. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73 (11):2506-2521   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2017)'Men's information-seeking behavior regarding cancer risk and screening: A meta-narrative systematic review'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Reidy, Mary; Hegarty, Josephine; O'Mahony, Mairin; Murphy, Mike; Von Wagner, Christian; Drummond, Frances J. (2017) 'Men's information-seeking behavior regarding cancer risk and screening: A meta-narrative systematic review'. Psycho-Oncology, [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2017)'Exploring awareness and help-seeking intentions for testicular symptoms among heterosexual, gay, and bisexual men in Ireland: A qualitative descriptive study'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine (2017) 'Exploring awareness and help-seeking intentions for testicular symptoms among heterosexual, gay, and bisexual men in Ireland: A qualitative descriptive study'. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 67 :41-50 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2017)'Exploring men's preferred strategies for learning about testicular disorders inclusive of testicular cancer: A qualitative descriptive study'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine (2017) 'Exploring men's preferred strategies for learning about testicular disorders inclusive of testicular cancer: A qualitative descriptive study'. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 26 :27-35 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2016)'Abstracts of the 2016 World Congress of Psycho-oncology, 17 - 21 October 2016, Dublin, Ireland'
(2016) 'Abstracts of the 2016 World Congress of Psycho-oncology, 17 - 21 October 2016, Dublin, Ireland'. Psycho-Oncology, 25 Suppl 3 [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'Promoting Testicular Cancer Awareness and Screening A Systematic Review of Interventions'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine (2016) 'Promoting Testicular Cancer Awareness and Screening A Systematic Review of Interventions'. Cancer nursing, 39 (6):473-487 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2015)'Testicular cancer awareness and screening practices: a systematic review'
Saab, Mohamad M.; Landers, Margaret; Hegarty, Josephine (2015) 'Testicular cancer awareness and screening practices: a systematic review'. Oncology Nursing Forum, 1 (43):8-23 [DOI] [Details]
(2015)'Deciding to Seek Emergency Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction'
Noureddine, S;Dumit, NY;Saab, M (2015) 'Deciding to Seek Emergency Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction'. Journal of Clinical Nursing Research, 24 :487-503 [DOI] [Details]
(2014)'Surviving Testicular Cancer The Lebanese Lived Experience'
Saab, M;Noureddine, S;Huijer, HA;DeJong, J (2014) 'Surviving Testicular Cancer The Lebanese Lived Experience'. Nursing Research, 63 :203-210 [DOI] [Details]

Professional Activities

Committees

 CommitteeFunctionFrom / To
Academic Council Member2020 /
Athena Swan Committee Member2018 /
UCC Health Matters – Sexual Health Working Group Member2017 /
Enhancing Cancer Awareness and Survivorship Programmes (E.CASP) research group Member2016 /

Languages

 LanguageReadingWritingSpeaking
Arabic FluentFluentFluent
French FluentFluentFluent
English FluentFluentFluent

Journal Activities

 JournalRoleTo / From
Cancer Nursing Referee-
Journal Of Clinical Nursing Referee-
Journal Of Advanced Nursing Referee-
Nursing Research Referee-
Psycho-Oncology Referee-

Teaching Activities

Teaching Interests

Dr Saab has experience in teaching and assessment in general nursing and has actively contributed across a number of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes in and outside his area of specialisation. These include: oncology nursing; palliative care nursing; nursing leadership and management; nursing theory; research methods; health assessment; pharmacology; pathophysiology; clinical skills; and simulation. He is also experienced in module and curriculum development and the use of innovative technologies and modern pedagogical approaches (e.g. VR, hybrid/blended, and online platforms). 

Dr Saab has supervised 20 MSc students to completion and is currently supervising 3 MSc and 7 PhD students. 

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