CHErIsH publications and presentations

CHErIsH published papers

• Matvienko-Sikar, K., Griffin, C., Kelly, C., Heary, C., Pico Pedersen, M.L., McGrath, N., Toomey, E., Harrington, J., Hennessy, M., Queally, M., Hayes, C., McSharry, J., Devane, D., Byrne, M. and Kearney, P.M. (2020) A core outcome set for trials of infant-feeding interventions to prevent childhood obesity, International Journal of Obesity,
  DOI:10.1038/s41366-020-0538-2.
• Toomey, E., Matvienko-Sikar, K., Doherty, E., Harrington, J., Hayes, C.B., Heary, C., Hennessy, M., Kelly, C., McHugh, S., McSharry, J., O’Halloran, J., Queally, M., Heffernan, T., Kearney, P.M. and Byrne, M. (2020) A collaborative approach to developing sustainable behaviour change interventions for childhood obesity prevention: Development of the Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) intervention and implementation strategy, British Journal of Health Psychology, DOI:10.1111/bjhp.12407.
• Matvienko-Sikar, K., Toomey, E., Queally, M., Flannery, C., O’Neill, K., Dinan, T.G., Doherty, E., Harrington, J., Hayes, C., Heary, C., Hennessy, M., Kelly, C., McHugh, S., McSharry, J., Stanton, C., Heffernan, T., Byrne, M. and Kearney, P.M. (2019) Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) study: Protocol for a feasibility study, BMJ Open, 9: e029607.
• Matvienko-Sikar K., Toomey E., Delaney L., Flannery, C., McHugh, S., McSharry, J., Byrne, M., Queally, M., Heary, C. and Kearney, P.M. (2019) Behaviour change techniques and theory use in healthcare professional-delivered infant feeding interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A systematic review, Health Psychology Review, Vol. 13(3).
• Griffin, C., Toomey, E., Queally, M., Hayes, C., Kearney, P.M. and Matvienko-Sikar, K. (2019) Influence of providing information to participants about development of trial outcomes on response rates and attitudes to questionnaire completion: Protocol for a study within a trial [version 1; referees: 1 approved], HRB Open Research, 2:2.
• Hennessy, M., Heary C., Laws, R., Van Rhoon, L., Toomey, E., Wolstenholme, H. and Byrne, M. (2019) The effectiveness of health professional-delivered interventions during the first 1,000 days to prevent overweight/obesity in children: A systematic review, Obesity Reviews, 1-17.
• Hennessy, M., Heary C., Laws, R., Van Rhoon, L., Toomey, E., Wolstenholme, H. and Byrne, M. (2019) Health professional-delivered obesity prevention interventions during the first 1,000 days: A systematic review of external validity reporting [version 2; peer review: 2 approved], HRB Open Research, 2:14
• Matvienko-Sikar, K., Griffin, C., McGrath, N., Toomey, E., Byrne, M., Kelly, C., Heary, C., Devane, D. and Kearney, P.M. (2018) Developing a core outcome set for childhood obesity prevention: A systematic review, Maternal & Child Nutrition, 15: e12680.
• Matvienko-Sikar, K., Toomey, E., Delaney, L., Harrington, J., Byrne, M., Kearney, P.M., CHErIsH study team (2018) Effects of healthcare professional delivered early feeding interventions on feeding practices and dietary intake: A systematic review, Appetite, 123(1).
• Matvienko-Sikar, K. and Kearney, P.M. on behalf of the CHErIsH research team (2018) Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH study) – Written submission to the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs on the topic of tackling childhood obesity, Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, Dublin, Ireland.
• Toomey, E., Matvienko-Sikar, K., Heary, C., Delaney, L., Queally, M., Hayes, C., Kearney, P.M. and Byrne, M. (2018) Intervention fidelity within trials of infant feeding behavioral interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A systematic review, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Vol. 53(1).
• Toomey, E., Byrne, M., Houghton, C., Kelly, C., Matvienko-Sikar, K., McSharry, J., Queally, M., Doherty, E., Hayes, C., Hennessy, M., McHugh, S., Kearney, P.M. and Heary, C. on behalf of the CHErIsH study (2018) Health-care professional and parental views and experiences of implementing infant feeding interventions: A qualitative evidence synthesis, Published abstract, The Lancet, 392, S1-S97.
• Matvienko-Sikar, K., Byrne, M., Kelly, C., Toomey, E., Hennessey, M., Devane, D., Heary, C., Harrington, J., Hayes, C., Queally, M. and Kearney P.M. (2018) Developing an infant feeding core outcome set for childhood obesity prevention, Published abstract, The Lancet, 392, S1-S97.
• Queally, M., Doherty, E., Makvienko-Sikar, K., Toomey, E., Cullinan, J., Harrington, J.M and Kearney, P.M. (2018) Do mothers accurately identify their child’s overweight/obesity status during early childhood. Evidence from a nationally representative cohort study, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition, 15:56.
• Buggy, S., O’Neill, K., Kearney, P.M. and Matvienko-Sikar, K. (2018) Investigating associations between maternal well-being and infant dietary intake in a low income setting, Research article, CRNINI Research Digest, Children’s Research Network of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
• Hennessy, M., Byrne, M., Laws, R., McSharry, J., O’Malley, G. and Heary, C. (2018) Childhood obesity prevention: Priority areas for future research and barriers and facilitators to knowledge translation, coproduced using the nominal group technique, Translational Behavioral Medicine, 9(4).
• Queally, M., Doherty, E., Finucane, F. and O’Neill, C. (2017) Low expectations: Do teachers underestimate the ability of overweight children or the children of overweight mothers?, Economics and Human Biology, 27(A), 26-32.
• Matvienko-Sikar, K., Kelly, C., Sinnott, C., McSharry, J., Houghton, C., Heary, C., Toomey, E., Byrne, M. and Kearney, P.M. (2017) Parental experiences and perceptions of infant complementary feeding: A qualitative evidence synthesis, Obesity Reviews. 
• Matvienko-Sikar, K., Byrne, M., Kelly, C. , Toomey, E., Hennessy, M., Devane, D., Heary, C., Harrington, J., McGrath, N., Queally, M. and Kearney, P.M. (2017) Development of an infant feeding core outcome set for childhood obesity interventions: Study protocol, Trials, 18.
• Black, L., Matvienko-Sikar, K. and Kearney, P. (2017) The association between childcare arrangements and risk of overweight in childhood: A systematic review, Obesity Reviews, 18(10), 1170-1190.

CHErIsH KEDS (Knowledge exchange and dissemination)

• Calnan, S., Toomey, E., Matvienko-Sikar, K., Hayes, C., McHugh, S., Flannery, C., O’Neill, K., Doherty, E., Hennessy, M., Kelly, C., Heary, C., Queally, M., Heffernan, T., Byrne, M. and Kearney, P.M. (2019) Role of integrated knowledge translation in developing and implementing a multi-component infant feeding intervention: Insights from the CHErIsH study, European Health Psychologist Bulletin, Vol. 21(1).
• Calnan, S. on behalf of CHErIsH research team (2019), How to improve early infant feeding practices, RTÉ Brainstorm [online], 1st August.
• ‘Universities lead study into early infant feeding practices – and future health’, The Corkman, 14th March 2019.
• ‘Pioneering healthy infant feeding initiative gets underway at Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre’, Mallow Star, 14th March 2019.
• Toomey, E. (2019) Exploring intervention fidelity in trials of interventions to change infant feeding behaviours – are we testing what we think we’re testing?, Structured Population and Health-services Research Education blog.

CHErIsH presentations

• January 2020: ‘Promoting healthy infant feeding in primary care to prevent childhood obesity: Development of the Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) intervention and implementation strategy’, Oral presentation at UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, Bath, UK (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• October 2019: ‘Choosing healthy eating for infant health – challenges to date’, Oral presentation at Centre for Health and Diet Research Scientific Advisory Group Meeting, UCD, Dublin (Presenter: Dr Caragh Flannery)
• October 2019: ‘Development of the Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) intervention for primary care’, Oral presentation to Centre for Children’s Health Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (Presenter: Dr Caroline Heary)
• September 2019: ‘Exploring the acceptability of infant feeding interventions in primary care with healthcare professionals: A qualitative interview study’, Oral presentation at European Health Psychology Society Annual Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• June 2019: Presentation on CHErIsH on behalf of the CHErIsH team, International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic (Presenter: Dr Caroline Heary)
• January 2019: ‘Promoting healthy infant feeding in primary care to prevent childhood obesity: Development of the Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) intervention and implementation strategy’, Oral presentation at SPHeRE Network 5th Annual Conference, Dublin (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• November 2018: ‘Fidelity and adaptation of complex behaviour change interventions and the Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health study’, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• November 2018: ‘Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health: The CHErIsH study’, Hunter New England Population Health Healthy Children Initiative, Newcastle, Australia (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• May 2018: ‘Fidelity and adaptation within complex health behaviour change interventions’, Centre for Family Medicine Research Update, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• June 2017: ‘The implementation fidelity of infant feeding interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A systematic review’, Poster presentation at Knowledge Translation Canada annual meeting, Quebec City, Canada (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• March 2017: ‘The implementation fidelity of infant feeding interventions to prevent childhood obesity: A systematic review’, Oral presentation at Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• March 2017: ‘Exploring implementation fidelity within complex behaviour change interventions: From physiotherapy to public health research’, Oral presentation at University of East Anglia School of Health Sciences Seminar Series (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• January 2017: ‘Using an infant feeding intervention to target childhood obesity: Background, rationale and aims of the HRB Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Childhood Obesity project’, Oral presentation at SPHeRE Annual Conference, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (Presenter: Dr Elaine Toomey)
• January 2017: ‘Developing, implementing and evaluating a pilot complex intervention to prevent childhood obesity by improving early infant feeding’, presented at SPHeRE conference, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
• September 2016: ‘Developing, implementing and evaluating a pilot complex intervention to prevent childhood obesity by improving early infant feeding’, Oral presentation at School of Applied Psychology (SOAP) Seminar Series, UCC, Ireland (Presenters: Dr Elaine Toomey and Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar)
• August 2016: ‘Tackling childhood obesity: Designing, evaluating and implementing a complex infant feeding intervention in primary care’, Oral presentation at Nutrition and Nurture in Infancy and Childhood: Bio‐Cultural Perspectives, Dalarna, Sweden (Presenter: Marita Hennessy)