Health Care - Research Areas - University of Malta

Institute of Health Care

Communication Therapy

Developmental speech and language acquisition and disorders in bilingual populations.

Research Projects:
Communication Disorders in the Maltese Population: Marie Curie Fellowship for Transfer of Knowledge FP6-2002-Mobility-3-Under the European Community programme Structuring the European Research Area. Fluency and Fluency Disorders Module: Socrates Erasmus programme. Development of a European module that aims at developing a joint postgraduate European specialisation module. Specialists in fluency disorders from participating departments contribute their personal expertise to develop this module. European research network for first-language acquisition with emphasis on semantics/pragmatics and language impairment (SLI). Cost Action A33: an intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in the field of scientific and technical research. Multilingual glossary project: Compilation and translation of terms related to speech language pathology in various European Languages including Maltese. European Network for Speech Language Therapy: 17 participating institutions.

Health Services Management

European health policy;
Clinical Management;
Health needs of vulnerable groups;
Leadership and team work in health care;
Health Services utilisation;
Quality and patient safety.

Research Projects:
Patient Mobility in the European Union (recently completed FP6 project).

Medical Laboratory Science

Genetics of Osteoporosis.

Nursing / Midwifery

Research Projects:
Relationships between self esteem and stress in nursing and midwifery students;
Demographic differences in student nurses' perceptions of caring and nursing;
Stress and coping in patients with terminal illness receiving care from the Malta Hospice Movement;
Stress, coping and purpose in life of patients with HIV and AIDS in Malta;
Stress and coping of institutionalised Maltese elderly in Maltese Elderly Homes in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, Malta and Gozo (comparative study).

Nutrition and Dietetics

Obesity.

Research Projects:

Erasmus Dietetics Framework Programme.

Occupational Therapy

Perspectives on Professional Qualification; Cardiac Rehabilitation; Occupational therapy with preschool autistic children;
Perspectives on Paediatric Practice;
Perspectives on Roles in Psychosocial Practice;
Fieldwork Education;
Sensory Integration.

Research Projects:
Interdisciplinary Cooperation: The Division forms part of iBERG (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering Research Group) which is seeking to set up research projects across professions within the Institute of Health Care and the Faculty of Engineering.

Physiotherapy

Domicillary Physiotherapy in the Rehabilitation of the Stroke Patient;
The Physiotherapy Curriculum;
Entry Qualifications vs. Final Classification;
Core Exercises in the Treatment of Low Back Pain.

Podiatry

Diabetes.

Radiography

Imaging Procedures;
Speciality Imaging including Ultrasound, CT, MRI and Nuclear Medicine;
Patient Care in Imaging;
Education of Health Care Professionals.