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[HIV testing among men who have sex with men in São Paulo: client-initiated routine and episodic testing
No full textIntrodução No contexto da valorização crescente do teste anti-HIV como estratégia de prevenção programática, a promoção do teste anti-HIV como estratégia de prevenção entre homens que fazem sexo com homens (HSH) é fundamental. Objetivo - Analisar os fatores associados tanto ao uso rotineiro como episódico do teste anti-HIV. Métodos - Os participantes foram 946 HSH entrevistados pelo Projeto SampaCentro em locais de sociabilidade HSH da região central de São Paulo entre novembro de 2011 e janeiro de 2012, nunca testados ou que procuraram o teste espontaneamente. A metodologia de amostragem foi a time-space-sampling e foram utilizados protocolos do Stata 12.0 para análise de amostras complexas. Os homens que se testaram por rotina ou episodicamente foram comparados aos nunca testados. As variáveis analisadas nos dois modelos de regressão de Poisson foram divididas em três níveis: características sociodemográficas (primeiro nível); socialização na comunidade gay e exposição da orientação sexual, discriminação e opiniões e atitudes em relação ao HIV/Aids e ao teste (segundo nível); percepção de risco, estratégias de prevenção e práticas e parcerias sexuais (terceiro nível). Resultados Os homens que se testaram rotineiramente eram mais velhos e moradores no Centro de SP. Além disso, tinham exposto a orientação sexual para profissional de saúde, sido discriminados em serviços de saúde mas não por amigos e/ou vizinhos (em razão da sexualidade) e não mencionaram medo do resultado do teste como motivo para HSH não se testarem. Também tinham maior probabilidade de conhecer pessoa soropositiva e de ter parcerias estáveis sem sexo anal desprotegido nas casuais (comparado a ter apenas parcerias casuais protegidas). Os homens que se testaram episodicamente eram mais velhos, residentes do Centro de SP, não moravam com parentes, expuseram sua orientação sexual para profissional de saúde, não reportaram medo do resultado do teste como barreira, conheciam pessoa soropositiva e mencionaram parceria estável sem sexo desprotegido com parceiro casual ou então sexo desprotegido em parcerias casuais (comparado a ter apenas parcerias casuais protegidas). Conclusões Os mais jovens, os que moram fora do centro de São Paulo, e os que expões menos sua orientação sexual são os segmentos que menos se testam rotineira ou episodicamente. Assim, dependem de ações para que seu direito seja protegido e assegurado. A estigmatização e a discriminação da homossexualidade deve ser combatida para que não impeça o acesso ao teste e a outros serviços de saúde. Disseminar informações e socializar os mais jovens para o diálogo sobre as estratégias de prevenção biomédicas e estratégias comunitárias de prevenção é necessário. Para ampliar o acesso e qualidade da testagem como recurso fundamental de programas de prevenção permanece o desafio de sustentar o debate sobre sexualidade e prevenção a cada geração, assim como nos programas de formação de educadores e de profissionais de saúde de todas as áreas.Introduction The relevance of HIV testing is growing in programmatic policies. Promoting HIV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) is of utter importance. Objective Analyze factors associated with routine and episodic use of HIV testing. Methods Our participants were selected from the database of Projeto SampaCentro, a time-location sampling serobehavioral surveillance survey of MSM in São Paulo, Brazil, that took place between November 2011 and January 2012. Our participants were 946 MSM not HIV positive who were never tested or whose last testing was client-initiated. All analysis were performed using complex samples protocols in Stata 12.0. Men were divided in routine testers, episodic testers and men who had never tested. Routine testers and episodic testers were compared to those who had never tested using two Poisson regression models. Variables were divided in three levels of analysis: sociodemographic (first level); socialization in gay community and disclosure of sexual orientation, discrimination, attitudes and opinions on HIV/AIDS and testing (second level); risk perception, prevention strategies and sexual practices and partnerships (third level). Results Routine testers were older and lived in Central São Paulo, had more frequently disclosed their sexual orientation to a health professional and been discriminated against in health service settings, were less likely to having suffered discrimination from friends and/or neighbors and to point fear as a barrier to testing, were more likely to know someone infected with HIV and to mention steady partners without unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) with casual partners (compared to having only casual partners with no UAI). Episodic testers were also older and more likely to live in Central São Paulo, less likely to live with relatives, more likely to have disclosed their sexual orientation to a health professional, less likely to point fear as a barrier to testing, more likely to know someone infected with HIV. This group more frequently mentioned steady partners without UAI with casual partners and UAI with casual partners, regardless of mentioning steady partners (compared to having only casual partners with no events of UAI). Conclusion Young MSM, those who live outside Central São Paulo and those less ready to disclose their sexual orientation are the MSM segments that are less likely to test, routinely or episodically. Therefore, programmatic actions are needed to ensure their rights are protected. Stigmatization and discrimination of homosexuality must be mitigated so that it wont be a barrier to information about prevention and testing services. Additionally, information on biomedical and communitarian prevention technologies must be shared and presented to those not yet familiar with these strategies. In order to improve access and quality of testing, the challenge of sustaining the debate about sex, sexuality and prevention remains, as new generations of MSM will need to be introduced to this debate. The same is true for the course curriculum of health professionals and educators
Teste anti-HIV entre homens que fazem sexo com homens em São Paulo: busca espontânea rotineira e episódica
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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
A psychosocial approach to health promotion: reviewing the process of a support group on weight and eating
No full textFaz uma revisão da literatura sobre os modelos de promoção da saúde e as abordagens psicossociais da obesidade, discutindo as limitações desses modelos. Propondo a articulação da promoção da saúde com a abordagem psicossocial no quadro da vulnerabilidade e direitos humanos, desenvolveu-se um estudo de caso do processo de construção coletiva de um Grupo de Ajuda Mútua para a Discussão de Peso, Alimentação e Saúde (GAM-PAS), coordenado pela autora durante sua Iniciação Científica. O objetivo desse estudo foi descrever e analisar criticamente o processo de implementação dessa proposta, que surgiu entre participantes do grupo de reeducação alimentar acompanhado em estudo anterior no Centro de Promoção da Saúde do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (CPS-HC). O estudo de caso utilizou gravações das sessões de grupo que completavam as observações registradas em diário de campo sobre o dia a dia do processo. Os participantes do grupo foram recrutados através de divulgação do grupo em faixa, pela pesquisadora e por uma pessoa atendida no CPS-HC que aceitou atuar com multiplicadora da proposta em seu bairro. A análise do processo foi informada pela noção de sucesso prático e êxito técnico e pela abordagem psicossocial da vulnerabilidade comprometida com a proteção e promoção de direitos, incentivando soluções coletivas para dificuldades compartilhadas na vida vivida. As reuniões do GAM-PAS eram semanais e duravam cerca de duas horas. Descreve-se: o que foi planejado e o que aconteceu de fato; como era vivida a questão da alimentação e saúde na vida cotidiana das participantes; qual era o sentido do GAM-PAS nos termos de suas participantes. As participantes e a multiplicadora do GAM-PAS pareciam esperar que a pesquisadora oferecesse todas as informações que julgavam precisar para cuidar de sua alimentação e saúde, estranhando a proposta de intervenção aberta à sua contribuição. Ao longo das reuniões, entretanto, a multiplicadora e as participantes passaram a contribuir, transformando o espaço do GAM-PAS. Não foi possível evocar respostas coletivas para problemas que, a partir da abordagem psicossocial da vulnerabilidade à obesidade e ao excesso de peso, demandariam mobilização coletiva; nem ampliar a consciência do grupo sobre a violação do direito à alimentação adequada e à atenção à saúde integral a que deveriam ter acesso. Conclui-se que a crença socialmente compartilhada de que o cuidado com o corpo e saúde dependeria apenas de força de vontade individual dificulta o enfrentamento coletivo de dificuldades programáticas relacionadas à obesidade e ao excesso de peso. A falta de conhecimento da pesquisadora e membros do grupo sobre o funcionamento do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) não favorecia o reconhecimento do seu direito ao acesso à integralidade do cuidado e da prevenção no campo da alimentação. Acredita-se que a intervenção teria se beneficiado de um manejo da abordagem psicossocial mais radicalmente comprometido com o quadro da vulnerabilidade e dos direitos humanos. Ressalta-se a importância de uma formação para o psicólogo social que compreenda o funcionamento do SUS e o trabalho em equipes multi-disciplinares, considerando contextos de desigualdade social e violação de direitosPresents a literature review on health promotion models and the psychosocial approaches on obesity, discussing these models limitations. Proposing an articulation between health promotion and the psychosocial approach of the vulnerability and human rights framework, a case study of the collective construction of a mutual aid group on weight, eating and health (GAM-PAS), coordinated by the author as part of her undergraduate research, is developed. The objective of this study was to describe and analyze the implementation process of this proposal, which was created from the suggestions of the participants of the nutrition education group of the Health Promotion Center of the General Clinic Service of the Medical College of the University of São Paulo (CPS-HC). The case study has utilized group session recordings in addition to the observations recorded on a field journal of the process. The groups participants were recruited through banner ads, made by the researcher and by one of the participants of the CPS-HC group, a woman who accepted being the multiplier of this proposal on her neighborhood. The process analysis was informed by the notion of practical success and technical efficacy and by the psychosocial approach on vulnerability committed to the protection and promotion of rights, stimulating collective solutions to the shared difficulties of the lived life. The GAM-PAS had two-hour weekly meetings. The following are described: what was planned and what really happened; how the eating and health issues were experienced in the participants daily lives; what was the meaning of the GAM-PAS in the terms of its participants. The participants and the multiplier of the GAM-PAS seemed to expect the researcher to supply them with all the information they deemed necessary to take care of their eating and health, not expecting an intervention proposal open to their contribution. However, throughout the meetings, the multiplier and the participants began to contribute, transforming the space of the GAM-PAS. It wasnt possible to generate collective responses to problems which, from a psychosocial approach on vulnerability to obesity and overweight, would require a collective movement; neither was it possible to broaden the groups consciousness on the violation of the rights to adequate food and to full health attention to which they were supposed to have access. The socially shared belief that the care to both body and health would depend only on the individual willpower is assumed to decrease the possibility of a collective approach to the programmatic difficulties related to obesity and overweight. The lack of knowledge of both the researcher and the groups participants of the operation of the Brazils National Health System (SUS) didnt help the acknowledgment of their rights of access to integral care and prevention on eating issues. It is believed that this intervention would have benefitted from a psychosocial approach handling more radically committed to the vulnerability and human rights framework. It is highlighted the importance of including the SUS framework and work in multidisciplinary teams into the education of the social psychologist, considering social inequality and violation of rights context
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
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