Please see call for survey responses from parents/grandparents/carers that care for a baby under 6 months old.
Purpose: to help Children’s Health Ireland understand how people feel about infant crying for their research.
Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YWD79T2
Closes 20th June 2025
We are a group of Paediatric Healthcare Workers interested in understanding the response of caregivers in Ireland to infants crying. We have devised an anonymous survey which is available in a digital format through the QR code on the poster. The link includes a patient information page and consent form. The questionnaire takes approximately 5 minutes to complete online, and can be done on your phone. We wish to encourage carers to disseminate the survey widely amongst their own networks of other caregivers of young infants.
As Healthcare Workers we are conscious that many caregivers struggle with infant crying. Normal healthy babies can cry for 2-3 hours a day leaving carers feeling overwhelmed and distressed. We hope to gain insights into caregivers’ perceptions of crying, their response to it, and how prepared they felt prior to taking on the role of caring for the infant in question. We hope that the information gathered will inform supports for caregivers, and help us to guide those with an inappropriate response. We aim to develop resources and supports for all caregivers of young infants and to target any particularly vulnerable populations identified by the survey.
This project has been granted ethical approval by the Ethics and Research committee of Children’s Health Ireland (REC-308-23) and was also granted approval to proceed from the Data Protection Office at Children’s Health Ireland. The survey will run until June 20th 2025.
Please find attached the poster. If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact us at the following address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Kind Regards,
Dr. Emma Curtis, Consultant Paediatrician, CHI at Tallaght
Dr. Aisling Geoghegan, Consultant Paediatrician, CHI at Crumlin
Dr. Aisling O’Riordan, Consultant Paediatrician, University Hospital Limerick
Dr. Sabine Maguire, Consultant Paediatrician, Cardiff University
Ms. Eimear Gilchrist, Child & Adult Safeguarding Lead CHI
Ms. Noelle O’Keeffe, Senior Counselling Psychologist, CHI at Tallaght
Ms. Jacqueline Crowley, Clinical Nuse Manager, CHI at Tallaght