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Patients’ experiences of self-care related to type 2 diabetes : A litterature review
No full textBakgrund Typ 2-diabetes drabbar mestadels personer över 50 år, men arv och hur man lever kan också spela roll. Att inte röra sig tillräckligt, röka och vara överviktig har gjort att fler fått diabetes på senare år. Sjukdomen kan orsaka skador på njurar, ögon och nerver i benen. Den kan till och med leda till allvarliga följdsjukdomar som hjärtinfarkt, stroke och till och med död. Om man fortsätter att röka eller snusa när man har diabetes ökar risken för hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar rejält, jämfört med dem som inte röker. Syfte Syftet var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av egenvård relaterat till typ 2-diabetes. Metod Metoden som används är litteraturöversikt som grundar sig vetenskapliga artiklar. Artiklarna valdes ut från databaserna Cinahl complete och PubMed för att svara på syfte och problemformulering. Resultat Analysen resulterade i fyra teman: Utmaningar med egenvård, Hälsosam kost och regelbunden fysisk aktivitet – hörnstenar i egenvården, Språkbarriärer och patienters tillgång till diabeteskunskap samt Betydelsen av socialt stöd. Slutsats Resultatet beskriver olika utmaningar för patienter med typ 2- diabetes som handlar om stress, ekonomiska problem, kunskapsbrist och kulturella och traditionella faktorer. Avgörande för patienterna var socialt stöd för omgivningen. Som sjuksköterska är det betydelsefullt att ha kännedom om det som hindrar och underlättar egenvård för att kunna ge gott stöd till patienter med typ 2-diabetes.Background Type 2 diabetes mostly affects people over 50, but heredity and lifestyle can also play a role. Not exercising enough, smoking and being overweight have led to more people developing diabetes in recent years. The disease can cause damage to the kidneys, eyes and nerves in the legs. It can even lead to serious things like heart attacks, strokes and even death. Continuing to smoke or use snuff when you have diabetes greatly increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, compared to those who do not smoke. Aim The aim was to describe patients' experiences of self-care related to type 2 diabetes. Method The method used is literature review based on scientific articles. The articles were selected from the databases Cinahl complete and PubMed to answer the purpose and problem formulation. Results The analysis resulted in four themes: Challenges in Self-Care, Healthy Diet and Regular Physical Activity – Cornerstones of Self-Care, language Barriers and Patients’ Access to Diabetes Knowledge, and the Importance of Social Support. Conclusions The results describe various challenges for patients with type 2- diabetes related to stress, financial issues, lack of knowledge, and cultural and traditional factors. Crucial for the patients was the social support from their environment. As a nurse, it is important to be aware of the factors that obstacle and facilitate self-care in order to provide effective support to patients with type 2-diabetes
Patients’ experiences of self-care related to type 2 diabetes : A litterature review
No full textBakgrund Typ 2-diabetes drabbar mestadels personer över 50 år, men arv och hur man lever kan också spela roll. Att inte röra sig tillräckligt, röka och vara överviktig har gjort att fler fått diabetes på senare år. Sjukdomen kan orsaka skador på njurar, ögon och nerver i benen. Den kan till och med leda till allvarliga följdsjukdomar som hjärtinfarkt, stroke och till och med död. Om man fortsätter att röka eller snusa när man har diabetes ökar risken för hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar rejält, jämfört med dem som inte röker. Syfte Syftet var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av egenvård relaterat till typ 2-diabetes. Metod Metoden som används är litteraturöversikt som grundar sig vetenskapliga artiklar. Artiklarna valdes ut från databaserna Cinahl complete och PubMed för att svara på syfte och problemformulering. Resultat Analysen resulterade i fyra teman: Utmaningar med egenvård, Hälsosam kost och regelbunden fysisk aktivitet – hörnstenar i egenvården, Språkbarriärer och patienters tillgång till diabeteskunskap samt Betydelsen av socialt stöd. Slutsats Resultatet beskriver olika utmaningar för patienter med typ 2- diabetes som handlar om stress, ekonomiska problem, kunskapsbrist och kulturella och traditionella faktorer. Avgörande för patienterna var socialt stöd för omgivningen. Som sjuksköterska är det betydelsefullt att ha kännedom om det som hindrar och underlättar egenvård för att kunna ge gott stöd till patienter med typ 2-diabetes.Background Type 2 diabetes mostly affects people over 50, but heredity and lifestyle can also play a role. Not exercising enough, smoking and being overweight have led to more people developing diabetes in recent years. The disease can cause damage to the kidneys, eyes and nerves in the legs. It can even lead to serious things like heart attacks, strokes and even death. Continuing to smoke or use snuff when you have diabetes greatly increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, compared to those who do not smoke. Aim The aim was to describe patients' experiences of self-care related to type 2 diabetes. Method The method used is literature review based on scientific articles. The articles were selected from the databases Cinahl complete and PubMed to answer the purpose and problem formulation. Results The analysis resulted in four themes: Challenges in Self-Care, Healthy Diet and Regular Physical Activity – Cornerstones of Self-Care, language Barriers and Patients’ Access to Diabetes Knowledge, and the Importance of Social Support. Conclusions The results describe various challenges for patients with type 2- diabetes related to stress, financial issues, lack of knowledge, and cultural and traditional factors. Crucial for the patients was the social support from their environment. As a nurse, it is important to be aware of the factors that obstacle and facilitate self-care in order to provide effective support to patients with type 2-diabetes
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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