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Awareness of Healthcare Providers About COVID-19 Vaccinations in Karbala City
Full text linkThe process of creating a vaccination is more complex and challenging than that of creating medication. The immunization has developed over a period of 12 to 15 years. It would probably take months to design and manufacture a coronavirus vaccine, which is a significant hurdle. Despite promises from several groups that a corona virus vaccine will be ready soon, achieving so will be challenging in reality. However, no study has been conducted on the awareness of the COVID-19 vaccine in Iraq. Therefore, there is a more prominent need to evaluate their knowledge and awareness among HCWs.
The study aims to determine the awareness of the COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare providers who are faced the Covid-19 Pandemic and also to find the association between sociodemographic and COVID-19 awareness.
Descriptive cross-sectional study was performed at four hospitals and eighteen health care centers randomly selected multistage sampling in the Karbala governorate. The period of data collection lasted 3 months, it began on 18th January 2022 and ended on 12th April 2022. It aimed to determine the level of Knowledge and awareness regarding the COVID-19 vaccine among a sample of health care providers.
The awareness score of the COVID-19 vaccine showed (52.3%) had fair awareness, and (28.2%) had poor awareness and (19.5%) had good awareness.
This study concluded that the highest proportion of the study sample had a fair score of awareness of COVID-19 vaccine
Practices Regarding Human Papillomavirus and Cervical Cancer in A Sample of Paramedical Staff in Al- Najaf Governorate, Iraq
Full text linkThe papillomaviridae viral family includes HPV. When it comes to female sexually transmitted diseases, the genital tract is the primary site of infection for genital type HPVs, which are further divided into high- and low-risk subgroups depending on the likelihood that they will cause cancer of the genital tract. High-risk HPV strains 16 and 18 cause cervical cancer. Sexual contact or skin-to-skin contact is the primary mode of transmission of HPV.
To assess the degree of Practice among a sample of paramedical workers concerning the Human Papillomavirus and Cervical Cancer.
Five hospitals and 25 primary health care centers in the Al-Najaf governorate were studied in this cross-sectional observational descriptive cross-sectional research. Starting on December 19th, 2021 and concluding on April 18th, 2022, data was gathered for four months. According to the results of the present research, which included (five hundred) Paramedical employees aged 20-59 years, the age group with the largest proportion (66.4%) was that of 20-29 years. Whereas, in terms of gender, the largest proportion of women (64.6 percent). Almost all paramedics work in urban areas. In addition, almost half of the participants came from medical institutions, accounting for 51.6 percent of the total, while just 2.4 percent were graduates of secondary schools. Only 2.4% of the paramedical staff had any kind of education or training on HPV or cervical cancer. Excellent practice evaluations for the Human Papillomavirus and cervical cancer were much higher among paramedical providers (79 percent). Most of the paramedics who were evaluated for their practices addressing cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV) received good grades. Health authorities, social groupings, and non-governmental organizations should work together to communicate information about the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer to the general population. In order to educate and sensitize medical professionals about HPV screening technologies and the most current screening and treatment guidelines, conduct educational initiatives
COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among a sample of healthcare providers in Karbala Governorate (Iraq)
Full text linkAlthough many vaccines are in development and clinical trials, and many vaccines have been distributed worldwide, the world has faced a huge challenge in line with the willingness to accept a COVID-19 vaccine in different countries. However, no study has been conducted on the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among HCPs in Iraq. Therefore. Health care providers, the frontline fighters, are at high risk of being infected with SARS-CoV- 2. A descriptive; the cross-sectional study was performed at 4 hospitals and 18 PHCCs randomly selected (multistage sampling) in the Karbala governorate. The period of data collection lasted 3 months, it began on 18th January 2022 ending on 12th April 2022. The study was conducted on 457 a sample of health care providers. The study conducted on 457 healthcare providers with an age range was between 20 -59 years, the Mean±SD of the age was 33.6±9.42 the highest percentage of healthcare providers (45.3%) was in the age group 20-29 years and the lowest percentage of healthcare providers (8.8%) was in the age group 50-59 years
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
Assessment of Vitamin D3 Level Among a Sample of Type 2 Diabetic Patients Attending Diabetes and Endocrinology Center in Al-Hilla City
Full text linkVitamin D is found in foods in two primary forms: cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) and ergocalciferol (vitamin D2), with vitamin D3 being a fat-soluble vitamin. that is necessary for calcium homeostasis and the maintenance of proper function in a variety of tissues. Humans get vitamin D from their diets or from being exposed to ultraviolet B radiation from the sun. Aside from its well-known effects on bone health, vitamin D has been hypothesized to play a role in various disease states and health situations, such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. To assess vitamin D3 concentration in patients with type 2 diabetes, using the Vitamin D Total III kit on the Cobas E 411 device. A total of 300 people were recruited, with 150 people suffering from type 2 diabetes serving as cases and 150 healthy volunteers of the same gender and age being used as the control group. Both genders were represented, with an age group between 30 – 79 years. The collection of data lasts for five months, beginning Started in November 2022 to April 2023. The data was analyzed with the readily available statistical package SPSS-28, and Chi-square tests were used to evaluate the relationship among vitamin D, T2DM, and control. Data were provided in simple frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and range measures. Type 2 diabetes patients' mean ± SD ages were 55.4 ± 10.1, while controls had a mean ± SD of age of 55.3 ± 10.0. the sociodemographic features of T2DM and participant control. Shows A statistically significant association was found in the variables of age groups, school level (P = 0.0001), and marital status (P = 0.008). The BMI: mean ± SD (29.69 ± 5.14) of T2DM was higher than the BMI: mean ± SD (24.41 ± 1.95) of controls, as well as the waist-to-height ratio, which showed that the mean ± SD (0.527 ± 0.046) of T2DM was greater than the control mean ± SD (0.483 ± 0.019) at level (P = 0.0001); T2DM patients had deficient and insufficient vitamin D3 levels (38.7% and 33.3%, respectively), whereas controls had deficient and insufficient vitamin D3 levels (28.7% and 30.0%, respectively). It was found that there is a significant difference between low vitamin D3 levels and individuals with type 2 diabetes, and A lack of vitamin D3 is related to an increased risk of developing T2DM
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
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