School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarly Impact Report 2021

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CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

PART A: TEACHING, CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY AND PRACTICE, AWARDS

Celebrating International Men’s Day and Movember

Nomination & Acceptance of Dr James O’Mahony onto the Committee for Behaviour & Cognitive Psychotherapies Association Dr James O’Mahony accepted the nomination onto the Irish Association for Behaviour & Cognitive Psychotherapies committee which is the Irish branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). The BABCP is the lead organisation for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in the UK and Ireland and promotes, improves, andupholds standards of CBTpractice, supervision and training.

Highlights

• Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men over the age of 50 years and testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men younger than 50 years. • Three in four deaths by suicide are males. Lack of mental health literacy is a key contributor to male suicide, hence the importance of initiatives to celebrate men and promote their health such as Movember.

Dr Mohamad Saab was invited to speak about men’s health at three different events during the month of November.

Prostate cancer remains the most common cancer among men over the age of 50 years. On November 18th, the Marie Keating Foundation invited Mohamad to deliver a prostate cancer awareness campaign in Arabic to a group of male Syrian and Afghan refugees in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel in Athlone. This initiative is key to promoting the health and wellbeing of underrepresented minority groups. On November 19th, the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Unit at UCC invited Mohamad to sit on a virtual Panel of male UCC staff to celebrate International Men’s Day. Topics discussed included: living with COVID-19, men’s health and wellbeing, caring responsibilities and home life, and ways to support men. This event was open to all UCC students and staff members. Movember isamonth-longevent inwhichpeopleareencouraged to grow moustaches in order to raise awareness of and funding for research related to men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, andmental health. OnNovember 22nd, the UCC Science Society and the UCC Cancer Society invited Mohamad to present about testicular cancer and discuss his work on the use of virtual reality to enhance men’s awareness of testicular diseases. This Movember STEMinar included two other talks on the relationship between statins and prostate cancer as well as men’s mental health. This hybrid event was attended by a number of UCC students.