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Assessing The Efficacy of Play Therapy and Social Skills Intervention in Children with Autism: A Quantitative Descriptive Investigation
No full textAn investigation of behavioural problems and clinical variables among children with autism employs a quantitative descriptive research design. Social and emotional development of children with autism differs from that of their typically developing peers. Having difficulty interacting with others and forming relationships is one of the most prominent signs of autism. An extensive literature search found that play therapy and social skills therapy aren\u27t commonly used for children with autism spectrum disorders. With frequency tables, both demographic and research variables of the study samples will be analyzed for their qualitative distributions (i.e. closed ended values). Data on socio-demographic variables and clinical variables were collected through the socio-demographic section of the questionnaire. A set of ASSP and ABAT tools was used to measure the participants\u27 social skills and behavior. Statistical differences between the demographic variables of children with autism in experimental groups I and II before intervention were calculated with the chi-square test. Despite the non-significant \u27p\u27 value (P>0.05), the experimental I, II, and control groups did not differ significantly. Both the groups were almost similar and comparable. Children with autism can benefit from more targeted interventions and support strategies, which will improve their well-being and quality of life. As a result, parents, caregivers, and healthcare professionals may gain a better understanding of how to cope with the behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorder
Assessing Socio-Communicative Abilities and Presence of Problematic Behaviours in Children with Autism: A Quantitative Descriptive Investigation
No full textAn investigation of behavioural problems and clinical variables among children with autism employs a quantitative descriptive research design. Social and emotional development of children with autism differs from that of their typically developing peers. Having difficulty interacting with others and forming relationships is one of the most prominent signs of autism. An extensive literature search found that play therapy and social skills therapy aren\u27t commonly used for children with autism spectrum disorders. With frequency tables, both demographic and research variables of the study samples will be analyzed for their qualitative distributions (i.e. closed ended values). Data on socio-demographic variables and clinical variables were collected through the socio-demographic section of the questionnaire. A set of ASSP and ABAT tools was used to measure the participants\u27 social skills and behavior. Statistical differences between the demographic variables of children with autism in experimental groups I and II before intervention were calculated with the chi-square test. Despite the non-significant \u27p\u27 value (P>0.05), the experimental I, II, and control groups did not differ significantly. Both the groups were almost similar and comparable. Children with autism can benefit from more targeted interventions and support strategies, which will improve their well-being and quality of life. As a result, parents, caregivers, and healthcare professionals may gain a better understanding of how to cope with the behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorder
What is the impact of biological treatment on sleep quality in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps patients: a retrospective cross-sectional study
No full textAbstract Background Sleep disturbance is prevalent in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). Although biological treatment has been shown to improve overall patient-reported sinonasal symptoms in CRSwNP, the treatment impact on individual sleep quality remains less explored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of dupilumab treatment on sleep quality in patients with CRSwNP. Methods A single-institutional, retrospective chart review was conducted on adult patients who received biological treatment (dupilumab) for CRSwNP. Patients’ condition was assessed before treatment and 3–12 months after continuous treatment. The assessment included the 22-item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22), Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation (NOSE) scale, Nasal Polyp Score (NPS), as well as perception for anosmia and hyposmia using Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for smell. Sleep-related symptoms and treatment outcomes were assessed using the Pittsburg sleep quality index (PSQI) global score, sleep domain questions within SNOT-22, and sleep-related question in the NOSE scale. Subjects with a PSQI global score of > 5 were considered poor sleepers. Results A total of 15 charts were included in this study. There were 12 males (80%) and 3 females (20%). Sixty percent of them were having bronchial asthma. The mean follow-up duration was around 6.7 months. The patients showed significant improvement in nasal assessment using the median values for SNOT-22, NOSE scale, NPS, and VAS for smell (P-value ≤ 0.001). As well, there was a significant improvement in the median scores for global PSQI, sleep domain questions within SNOT-22, and sleep-related question in the NOSE scale (P-value 0.04, < 0.001, and 0.001, respectively). Eight subjects (53.3%) had poor sleep quality before treatment. Four out of them improved from being poor sleepers to good sleepers after using the treatment. Conclusion This study indicates that dupilumab is an effective treatment for CRSwNP and it improves sleep quality parameters in some patients
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
OSA Knowledge and Attitudes
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This study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of King Fahad Military Medical Complex – Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (IRB number AFHER-IRB-2020-014). The participants’ consents were obtained by electronic consent methods. This survey-based cross-sectional study utilized a previously validated questionnaire called the “OSAKA questionnaire.” The OSAKA questionnaire is composed of 18 items that are used to assess one’s knowledge and 5 items to assess one’s attitudes concerning dealing with OSA.
An online questionnaire was sent between July and August 2020 via email and WhatsApp instant messaging to the Saudi board’s ORL trainee residents, including those in their second year of residency (R2) to their final year of residency (R5) (n = 185). First- year residency trainees were not included, as they were rotating in preparatory rotations and had no previous exposure to ORL clinical training. The survey was conducted anonymously.
Along with the OSAKA questionnaire, sociodemographic data and data about previous exposure to sleep practices were also collected. The sociodemographic data included age, gender, level of training, years of ORL practice including residency, year of graduation from medical college, and residency program region (by province). Data reflecting previous exposure to sleep practices were also collected, such as the frequency of exposure to diagnosed OSA patients, patients susceptible to OSA, polysomnography data, obese patients, and surgery directed to treat OSA. We also collected data on trainees’ self-reported awareness and previous consideration of other sleep disorders during their clinical training (such as inadequate sleep hygiene, insomnia, narcolepsy, and periodic limb movement disorder) as well as awareness of other related disorders (such as overlap syndrome and obesity hypoventilation syndrome). We considered those who answered that they were “aware of other sleep disorders” and who gave examples of other sleep disorders as the aware group.
The knowledge section of the OSAKA questionnaire was assessed by calculating the total true responses for the knowledge section. The total knowledge score was calculated out of 18.
The attitude section of the OSAKA questionnaire consisted of five questions (two for importance and three for confidence). It was calculated out of 5 for each question (the responses “extremely important” and “strongly agree” were scored as scores of 5). The total attitude score was calculated using a maximum score of 25, reflecting the sum score of the five attitude elements.
For the confidence questions, we considered those who answered “agree” and “strongly agree” as the confident group in identifying OSA-susceptible patients and managing OSA patients.
Exposure to each of the aforementioned clinical exposure items was divided and classified as either no exposure or any number of exposure incidences. </p
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
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