At the Department of Nursing our research centres around five main themes:
- educational research
- chronic conditions and self-management
- sexual health
- holistic care and
- clinical practice
The Department is involved in a number of ongoing research projects:
Educational research
- Moral, cognitive and psychosocial development of nursing students
- Students’ Perceptions of Nursing by Arts: A comparative study with University of Philippines, Philippines. (in collaboration with Bunagon A.)
- Inter-professional collaboration in the Maltese paediatric setting
- Transcultural healthcare encounters with African migrants in the primary health care setting and the implications for healthcare education
- Exploring the Framework of the Professional Doctorate in Mental Health Nursing
- Virtual Learning Environment applications in Higher Education: The implications
Chronic conditions and self-management
- The psychosocial aspect of the lived experiences of people between 18-35 years living with chronic illness and implications on the role of the health counsellor
- The impact of self-management interventions in Type 2 diabetes on blood glucose control
- Lived experiences of a thalassaemic sample with a change in treatment protocol (from intramuscular iron chelator to an oral chelator)
Holistic care
- A cross-cultural longitudinal study on spirituality of nursing and midwifery students
- Spirituality and Positive Psychology
- Childhood trauma in Malta
Clinical practice
- Stigmatisation of the severely mentally ill admitted to a general hospital
- Staff attitudes towards the mentally ill
- Developing and implementing a risk assessment tool within a mental health setting
- Referral in Critical Care: Factors associated with critical care nurses’ decisions to seek help from doctors
