{"id":514,"date":"2012-07-20T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:24:23","slug":"geary-seminar-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/?page_id=514","title":{"rendered":"Geary Seminar &#8211; July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PFL Evaluation team held a half-day seminar on 11<sup>th<\/sup> July 2012 on studies in progress emanating from the evaluation. Below is a short description of each study, video of the presentation and accompanying slides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><strong><strong>&#8216;Introduction&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Dr. Orla Doyle, Principal Investigator, Preparing for Life<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Orla Doyle provides an overview of the PFL Programme including the design, data collection, data analysis and a summary of the 6 month results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wQAiVGP_V0I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Orla-Presentation-Geary-Seminar-July-2012.pdf\">Click here to download Orla&#8217;s accompanying presentation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"10\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;Successes &amp; Challenges in the Early Stages of a Home Visiting Programme: Staff Perspectives<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong> Judy McGrath, Project Co-ordinator, <strong>Geary institute;<\/strong> Phd Candidate, TCD<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This study investigates the experiences of mentors and information officers who work on the Preparing for Life Programme. It provides a comparison between the two roles and investigates how the mentors and information officers experience their roles and the programme.\u00a0 Seven in-depth semi-structured interviews structured were carried out by the PFL evaluation team over a 2 month period from December 2009 to January 2010 and were analysed thematically from a psychological perspective. A second round of interviews is now underway, and this will provide a comparison to the present study.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zndf-l2bAcY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Judy-presentation-11072012.pdf\">Click here to download Judy&#8217;s accompanying presentation slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"10\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Differential Effects of Infant Gender and Early Childhood Intervention<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Edel McGlanaghy, Research Assistant<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong>This presentation examines the effect of child gender on the <em>Preparing for Life<\/em> early childhood intervention. Gender\/treatment interactions were carried out on measures of child development and parenting. The patterns of gender difference within and across treatment groups are discussed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HHwWSk_dvsA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Edel-McGlanaghy-Presntatation-Geary-Seminar-July-2012.pdf\">Click here to download Edel&#8217;s accompanying presentation slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"10\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Parenting Mental Health and Early Intervention: The impact of parental distress on parenting and child development in an early childhood intervention<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Maria Cosgrave, Research Assistant<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This study investigates whether mothers who experience poor emotional wellbeing react to the Preparing for Life programme differently to mothers not experiencing poor wellbeing. At the 6 month data collection point the sample is divided into two groups; mothers experiencing poor emotional wellbeing (as indexed by their WHO5 score) and those experiencing higher wellbeing. These groups are compared to each other across treatment conditions to determine whether there are differential effects of varied levels of wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mxs4VVTRJzc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Presentation-Maria-Cosgrave_6julyfinal.pdf\">Click here to download Maria&#8217;s accompanying presentation slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"10\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;Engagement in Preparing for Life: The importance of psychological and cognitive resources&#8217;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Ailbhe Booth, Research Assistant<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This study is an investigation of the relationship between engagement in a home visiting programme and the constituent components of psychological resources. Through the decomposition of the psychological resources variable this study aims to gain a more in-depth understanding of the factors influencing engagement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-E-qEhIFqg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Ailbhe-Presentation.pdf\">Click here to download Ailbhe&#8217;s accompanying presentation slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"10\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Comparing the PFL Community with a Comparison Group: Accounting for nonrandom differences<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Caitriona Logue, Research Assistant &amp; Phd Candidate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the <em>Preparing for Life<\/em> randomised experiment, ethical constraints have prevented the creation of a traditional treatment and control group. Instead, <em>Preparing for Life<\/em> is a dosage experiment whereby the participants are randomly assigned to either a high or low treatment group. As all participants receive some level of intervention, the impact of the common set of provisions could be hidden by simply comparing the two experimental groups. Therefore, the research survey was also administered to a third \u201cno treatment\u201d group. This group was recruited from a separate community and represents a higher socioeconomic group. Given the small sample size, it is statically challenging to run comparisons between the <em>Preparing for Life<\/em> cohort and the participants who received no treatment, while also accounting for systematic differences between the groups. I will discuss the approach we have taken in this presentation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_HMqAjt2qVw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PFL_presentation_cait2.pdf\">Click here to download Caitriona&#8217;s accompanying presentation slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"10\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;Differences in Differences: Analysing Change Over Time&#8217;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">John Regan, Research Assistant &amp; Phd Candidate<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A significant component in future <em>Preparing for Life<\/em> evaluation reports will involve comparing the outcomes of participants and groups over time. Such analysis is necessary if we are to fully understand the dynamics of child and parent development and the causal impact the programme is having on these. This presentation outlines the Differences-in-Differences method used to evaluate the programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pU2XQG7J7nM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geary.ucd.ie\/preparingforlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/John-Regan-Presentation-July-2012.pdf\">Click here to download John&#8217;s accompanying presentation slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"10\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The PFL Evaluation team held a half-day seminar on 11th July 2012 on studies in progress emanating from the evaluation. 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