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Replication Data for: Test-retest reliability and minimal detectable change of Dutch-Flemish Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Computerized Adaptive Tests for musculoskeletal disorders.
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To exercise or not to exercise: Exploring Adherence to Home-Based Exercise in patients with Low Back Pain
Get PDFLow back pain (LBP) is a prevalent musculoskeletal condition that affects a large portion of the adult population globally, contributing to significant disability and economic burden. Clinical guidelines emphasize the biopsychosocial model for LBP management, which focuses on patient education, self-management, and interventions such as physical activity and exercise to promote recovery. Exercise therapy is considered effective for LBP management, though its success varies between individuals. Face-to-face physiotherapy is often combined with home-based exercises (HBE) to increase treatment dosage without adding extra costs. However, patient adherence to HBE is crucial for the effectiveness of HBE interventions, yet adherence remains a challenge and is difficult to measure accurately. Digital health technologies, such as smartphone apps, have the potential to support adherence to HBE. These technologies, when integrated with traditional physiotherapy, form blended care interventions that can enhance patient engagement, self-management, and exercise adherence. In light of this, the e-Exercise LBP intervention was developed, combining a smartphone app with face-to-face physiotherapy. The content of this intervention is tailored to the patient’s risk of developing persistent LBP and includes self-management themes, a tailored exercise program, and a goal-oriented physical activity module. To better understand adherence, the Exercise Adherence Scale (EXAS) was developed and tested for validity and reliability. The EXAS measures adherence to the frequency, intensity, and quality of HBE. The tool demonstrated good intrarater reliability but had lower interrater reliability. Using the EXAS, researchers could explore adherence patterns and their associations with clinical outcomes in patients with LBP. The research in this thesis also explored patient perspectives on using a smartphone app to support HBE. Qualitative interviews revealed that patients found the app acceptable and useful, particularly valuing its ease of integration into their daily routines. Key features of the app, such as video instructions, reminders, and self-monitoring, were considered beneficial. However, physiotherapists play an essential role in guiding patients on how to use the app effectively. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the e-Exercise LBP intervention compared to usual care. Both the intervention and usual care groups showed improvements in physical functioning, but no significant differences were found between the groups and for its cost-effectiveness. However, the e-Exercise LBP intervention significantly improved secondary outcomes like fear-avoidance beliefs and exercise adherence, particularly in high-risk patients. The research then identified three trajectories of adherence: declining, stable, and increasing adherence. Surprisingly, baseline patient characteristics did not predict adherence trajectories, highlighting the complexity of adherence behavior. Lastly, the research found no significant correlation between adherence levels and improvements in physical functioning or pain intensity, suggesting a more complex relationship between adherence and recovery from LBP than previously assumed. In conclusion, the research in this thesis emphasizes the importance of physiotherapists in supporting patient adherence and the value of using digital tools like apps to enhance treatment outcomes. However, adherence remains a complex issue, and further research combining quantitative and qualitative methods is necessary to better understand its role in LBP recovery
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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