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Factors influencing women partecipation in colorectal cancer screening
No full textColorectal cancer(CRC) is the 2nd most common cancer in
women worldwide. In Italy, only 50% of individuals invited touse Fecal occult blood test(FOBT) it attended. Women’s
participation for breast and cervical screening is very high.
More than 70% completed a mammography but the adhesion
to FOBT is lower than the other two screening offered for free
and the adhesion to colonoscopy is very low. The aim of the
study is investigate the beliefs, feelings and psychological
factors that could influence the behavior of women about
participation in cancer screening(Colonoscopy and FOBT).
Methods
The survey was carried out in a center for cancer prevention in
Siena, Tuscany, in 2011. A questionnaire, based on literature,
was administered to 507 women attending mammography or
clinical breast examination and it was administered to all age
women but adherence to colorectal cancer screening was
analyzed only for women age 50 years and older (207). We
performed descriptive and bivariate analysis and we examined
the association between participant characteristics, willingness
and adherence to screening.
Results
Family history of colorectal cancer is associated with adherence
to screening compliance (FOBT and colonoscopy)
(p < 0.0087).The doctor’s advice is significantly associated
with adherence to colorectal cancer screening (both)
(p < 0.0001). Women who perceived colonoscopy as a painful
examination are less likely to be compliant to screening for
CRC (colonoscopy) (p < 0.0002).The embarrassment is
another factor related to colonoscopy compliance (p < 0.0012).
Conclusions
Embarrassment, pain and doctor’s advice are the factors that
correlated more strongly with adherence (or not) to screening.
For the future is useful to implement information campaigns
on colorectal cancer and refresher courses for general
practitioners. A possible intervention for the future would be
to hand before mammography or gynecological examination
the kit for the collection of fecal occult blood
Il cancro colorettale: conoscenze, opinion ed adesione alla screening delle donne che si sottopongono a controllo senologico
No full textIl comportamento sessuale in un campione di pazienti affette da fibromialgia e/o vulvodinia (Sexual behavior in a cohort of patient affected by fibromyalgia and/or vulvodynia)
No full textSummary
Fibromyalgia, characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, negatively impacts sexuality by provoking dispareunia, and loss of desire and of dyadic gratification. Chronic pain syndromes tend to associate and FM women have a higher probability to develop vulvodynia than women not affected by fibromyalgia. Vulvodynia, characterized by burning pain that interferes with sexual penetration, is classified as Genitopelvic/Penetration Disorders in DSM 5.
The association between Fibromyalgia and vulvodynia is difficult to recognize because patients tend to attribute all symptoms to disease spread and not think that dyspareunia may have different origins. To establish the necessary criteria for the differential diagnosis between the two syndromes, we evaluated the characteristics of dyspareunia and sexual behavior of fibromyalgia patients versus vulvodynia patients and we found significant differences on the onset of burning pain, orgasmic capability, and sexual frequency.
Parole chiave Fibromialgia, vulvodinia, dispareunia, sessualità
Key words Fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, dyspareunia, sexualit
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
Errori nella fase preanalitica di laboratorio: valutazione e gestione
No full textRiassunto: Il problema dell’errore in medicina di laboratorio e delle possibili ricadute sulla sicurezza per il pa-
ziente è andato assumendo sempre più maggiore importanza negli ultimi anni e anche se il tasso di errore nei labo-
ratori clinici è molto inferiore rispetto ad altre discipline mediche, la grande numerosità di esami eseguiti ogni
giorno, in tutte le parti del mondo, può tradursi in un rischio per la sicurezza dei pazienti.
Scopo del presente studio è stato mettere in rilievo gli errori di laboratorio e di permettere al laboratorio stesso
di evitarli e di mantenere alta la vigilanza, offrendo, attraverso lo studio effettuato, un supporto a tutti gli operato-
ri all’interno di un Laboratorio Analisi, cercando di identificare le strategie più opportune di risk management ri-
volte ad una delle fasi più delicate e rilevanti dell’intero processo laboratoristico.
Si è voluto, altresì, valutare le strategie di miglioramento che sono state proposte e/o attuate, nel tentativo di
contribuire ad adottare più elevati standard qualitativi, che consentano di razionalizzare la gestione delle risorse e
limitare (o annullare), l’influenza degli errori.
Dai risultati ottenuti è emerso che un laboratorio clinico, per fornire un servizio di buona qualità, deve neces-
sariamente muoversi in ambiti diversi. Innanzitutto, esso deve essere in grado di rilevare correttamente i diversi
tipi di non conformità del campione, possibilmente nel modo più automatizzato possibile, al fine di evitare errori
dovuti alla mancata o carente registrazione delle stesse, cosa che ne comporterebbe un’errata rilevazione con la
conseguente produzione di analisi statistiche fuorvianti
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
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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