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Evaluation of Hopelessness and Loneliness Among Healthcare Professionals in Different Areas of the Hospitals
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Background: Healthcare professionals face psychosocial and emotional challenges in different areas of the hospital environment. This study is aimed at exploring the loneliness and hopelessness levels of those working in different units in the hospital.
Material and Method: Nurses were the subjects enrolled in this study due to nurses being the largest group among health professionals in a variety of hospital environments. Nurses working at the psychiatry, surgery, and intensive care units in three hospitals in Istanbul were included in the survey. Nurses were administered UCLA Loneliness and Beck hopelessness scales.
Results: Mean loneliness scores of nurses who worked at psychiatry clinics were lower as compared to the scores of those who worked at surgery and intensive care units (p=0.007). Mean loneliness scores of nurses who worked at surgery and intensive care units were similar. Mean hopelessness scores of the nurses who worked at psychiatry clinics were the lowest ones, and the mean hopelessness scores of nurses who worked at intensive care clinics were higher than the others (p=0.001). There were positive correlations between measures of loneliness and hopelessness feelings across all the hospital units in the study (p=0.048).
Conclusion: The loneliness and hopelessness levels of nurses were affected differently depending on the work settings and conditions. It is suggested for healthcare professionals of all sorts to pay greater attention to the loneliness and hopelessness at work
Effects of Therapeutic Massage on Fear, Anxiety, and Pain Levels of Critical Care Patients
Full text linkObjective: This experimental study aimed to investigate the effect of therapeutic massage on fear, anxiety, and pain levels of critically ill patients. Material-Method: The sample of the study consisted of 50 patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The patients were divided into two groups: control and experimental groups, each consisted of 25 patients. Data were collected using a questionnaire including questions about sociodemographic characteristics and some medical parameters of patients, visual materials prepared following the literature review that the patients could easily show their anxiety and fear levels without having to speak, and visual pain scale. Results: Of the patients, 62% were male, 44% were 44–64 years old, 90% were married and 54% were primary school graduates. The reason for staying in the ICU was the diagnosis of respiratory distress in 42% of the patients and 74% were staying in the ICU for two days. There was a decrease in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and pulse in the experimental group compared to the control group; however, this was not statistically significant (p>0.05). It was further observed that high respiratory values decreased, and oxygen saturation values increased (
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
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
Glycemic index values of monofloral Turkish honeys and the effect of their consumption on glucose metabolism
Full text linkBackground/aim: Clinical trials have shown that low glycemic index (GI) nutrition reduces mean blood glucose concentrations and insulin secretions. The aim of the present study was to determine the GI values of various monofloral (citrus, milk-vetch, chestnut, thyme, lime, pine) honeys of Turkey, and the effect of their consumption on glucose metabolism
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
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