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Replication Data for: Predictors of Delayed Initiation of Breast Milk and Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia: A Multi-level Mixed-effect Analysis
No full textBackground: Despite the well-established benefits of early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months to promote optimal neonatal and child health, evidence indicates that in Ethiopia, a significant number of newborns initiate breastfeeding late, do not adhere to exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the recommended duration, and instead are fed with bottles.
Objective: To determine the proportion of delayed initiation of breast milk, exclusive breastfeeding, and its individual and community-level predictors among mothers in Ethiopia.
Methods: A secondary data analysis was done using the 2019 Ethiopian Mini Demographic Health Survey data. We examined a weighted sample of 2,012 children born within the past 24 months and 623 children aged 0-5 months at the time of the survey. The data analysis was done using STATA version 15. To understand the variation in delayed initiation and exclusive breastfeeding, statistical measures such as the Intraclass correlation coefficient, median odds ratio, and proportional change in variance were calculated. We employed a multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression model to identify predictors for each outcome variable. Statistical significance was determined with a p-value < 0.05.
Results: The proportion of delayed initiation of breast milk and exclusive breastfeeding were 24.56 and 84.5%, respectively. Women aged 34-49 years old (AOR = 0.33: 95% CI; 0.15 - 0.72), having a television in the house (AOR = 0.74: 95%CI; 0.33 - 0.97), delivered by cesarean section (AOR = 3.83: 95% CI; 1.57 - 9.32), and resided in the Afar regional state (AOR = 1.43: 95%CI; 1.03 - 12.7) were significantly associated with delayed initiation of breast milk. On the other hand, attended primary education (AOR = 0.67: 95%CI; 0.35 – 0.99), secondary education (AOR = 0.34: 95%CI; 0.19 – 0.53), women whose household headed by male (AOR = 0.68; 95% CI; 0.34 - 0.97), and rural residents (AOR = 1.98: 95%CI; 1.09 - 3.43) were significantly associated with exclusive breastfeeding practice.
Conclusion: Health promotion efforts that encourage timely initation of breast milk and promote EBF, focused on young mothers, those who gave birth through cesarean section, and those residing in urban and the Afar regional state. Furthermore, government health policymakers and relevant stakeholders should consider these identified predictors when revising existing strategies or formulating new policies
Replication Data for: Magnitude of complete uptake of maternity services and its determinant among women who gave birth in Bench Sheko zone, Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis
No full textBackground: Maternal and neonatal deaths can be reduced by ensuring full access to maternity services. Yet, in Ethiopia, evidence indicates low utilization of these services, posing a major challenge. Thus, more evidence is needed on maternity services' continuity at the national level in general, and particularly in Bench Sheko zone where no previous studies have been conducted.
Objective: To determine the magnitude and its determinants of the complete uptake of maternity services in Bench Sheko zone, Ethiopia.
Methods: From February 1st to April 30th, 2023, community-based cross-sectional study was conducted, involving a total of 848 postpartum women nested in 21 kebeles. Data was collected using pretested structured questionnaires, entered using EpiData version 3.1, and analyzed by STATA version 14. Determinants were identified using multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression analysis. A P<0.05 considered statistically significant.
Result: The study found that 50.2% of women fully utilized maternity services. Variables like, attending higher education (AOR = 4; 95% CI: 1.71 - 9.33), decision-making autonomy (AOR = 7.17; 95% CI: 3.61 - 14.25), media exposure (AOR = 2.03; 95% CI: 1.14 - 3.61), and receiving advice on danger signs (AOR = 2.12; 95% CI: 1.54 - 3.31) were positively associated, whereas, women residing in rural areas (AOR = 0.12; 95% CI: 0.02 - 0.59), initiating antenatal care late (AOR = 0.29; 95% CI: 0.12 - 0.72), and living more than five kilometers away from nearest health facility (AOR = 0.20; 95% CI: 0.08 - 0.51) were negatively associated with complete uptake of maternity services.
Conclusion: Complete uptake of maternity services in the study area was low as compared to the national target. Thus, urgent need for targeted interventions and improved accessibility to ensure comprehensive and equitable maternity services. It’s important to prioritize female education and empowerment, particularly in rural areas, to address the underlying determinants. By focusing on these factors, we can maximize the uptake of maternity services, reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates, and make significant progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal by 2030
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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