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The use of reflection in a palliative care programme: a quantitative study of the development of reflective skills over an academic year
No full textReflection has gained a reputation for encouraging the integration between theory and practice within professional education. However, this reputation is based on an evidence base that mostly consists of theoretical debate. The aim of this study was to test our experience that the ability to reflect is developmental and that some reflective skills are harder to achieve than others. The research was undertaken by assessing the degree to which registered nurses achieved reflective criteria within assignments submitted for a variety of palliative care undergraduate modules. A total of 160 assignments were analysed using a marking grid constructed from a literature review and the results were compared between students and across academic terms. The results suggest that students are able to describe their practice but find it harder to analyse knowledge, the context of care and to action plan. Nevertheless, reflective abilities developed over time with significant developments made between each term. However, the development of skills indicative of critical reflection was less evident and confined to the ability to raise implications for future learning. The lack of multivariate analysis limits the study. However, the findings build on previous research and prompt questions for future work, particularly with respect to the process of reflection and how this can be supported in order to encourage the development of critical reflective skills
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
P03: a novel childhood obesity risk estimation tool: findings from mixed methods feasibility testing within an enhanced health visiting service
No full textBackground: childhood obesity is a pressing public health issue. A Childhood Obesity Risk Estimation tool (SLOPE CORE) has been developed based on prediction models using routinely available maternity and early childhood data to estimate risk of childhood obesity at 4–5 years. This study aimed to test the feasibility, acceptability and usability of SLOPE CORE within an enhanced health visiting service for disadvantaged families.Methods: a mixed methods approach was used. Purposively sampled Health Visitors (HVs) working within an enhanced health visiting programme were trained to use the tool. HVs then recruited parents from their caseload into the study (convenience sampling), used the tool and HVs completed a system usability scale (SUS) questionnaire. HVs and parents were invited to take part in interviews or focus groups to explore their experiences of the tool. Qualitative data was analysed using thematic analysis (using NVivo software).Results: five HVs and seven parents took part in the study. HVs found the SLOPE CORE tool easy to use with a mean SUS of 84.4 (n=4, range 70–97.5), indicating excellent usability. Five HVs and three parents took part in qualitative work. The tool was acceptable and usable for both parents and HVs. Parents expressed a desire to know their child’s risk of obesity, provided this was accompanied by additional information, or support, to modify risk. HVs appreciated the health promotion opportunity presented by the tool, and felt it facilitated difficult conversations around weight, by providing ‘clinical evidence’ for risk, placing the focus of the conversation onto the tool result, rather than their professional judgement. HVs were concerned that using the tool may negatively impact their relationship with the parent. After using the tool HVs agreed that, for the majority of parents, a sensitive approach would mitigate any potential negative impacts from using the tool. Potential barriers to use of the tool included the need for internet access, and concerns around time needed to have a sensitive discussion around a conceptually difficult topic (risk).Conclusion: the SLOPE CORE tool was found to be feasible and user-friendly in this small sample. The tool has the potential to add value in clinical practice, and may support targeting limited resources towards families most at risk of childhood obesity. Further research is needed to explore how the tool might be efficiently incorporated into practice, and to evaluate the impact of the tool, and any subsequent interventions, on preventing childhood obesity
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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