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No full textIl ruolo dell'ostetrica in gravidanza nell'attivazione delle risorse materne in puerperio : studio osservazionale prospettico
No full textIntroduction
Puerperium is a period full of great physical changes and intense emotions, even unexpected. Woman acquires her new role of mother and unavoidable transformations occur in the relation with her partner. This process starts from pregnancy, when a mother has to create a space for the new presence of the baby. it’s not only about a physical area, but also a psychological and affective space. The woman becomes extremely receptive to the infant’s needs and she is ready to think over her ways of life and to change them. That’s why pregnancy is the best time for families and women’s safety promotion.
Aim of the study
The aim of this study is to understand what a midwife can do during pregnancy to turn on women’s endogenous skills and to help them to satisfy their needs during puerperium. To achieve this goal it’s essential to know and to understand women’s primary needs during the weeks following the childbirth. In this way the midwife will figure out which interventions will be helpful and advantageous for the new mothers.
Material and methods
The employed necessary data have been collected in two stages: at first by means of a questionnaire and subsequently, 30 days after the birth, through a telephonic interview. During the first phase 69 nulliparous women in the final stages of pregnancy have been chosen, who during July and August 2018 has gone to the pregnancy ward of L. Mangiagalli Clinic in Milano. During the second stage the cross-section will be reduced to 35 women.
Results
The mother’s needs after the childbirth have been classified in five main categories: breastfeeding needs, needs of the newborn well-being, need of professional support, need of practical support and difficulties in conciliate the condition of the self with the newborn needs. Two other uncommon categories will emerge: the need of reassurance and confirmation, and the need of receiving home help. Facing these necessities, the majority of the puerperae interviewed has highlighted that the information received during pregnancy has been fundamental, confirming the utility of the meetings of childbirth accompanying (which the majority of the women has attended – in responding to the thirst for information. More often, professionals providing assistance during pregnancy do not give any information about it and, as a consequence, women that aren’t attending those meetings are less or not at all informed about the period after birth. In addition to the importance of being informed, puerperae recognize the relevance of a professional support after the childbirth. During pregnancy the 23% of the women haven’t no contact to address to and the remaining 77% has contact with just one professional figure, not always able to answer to the mother’s needs: the result is a lack of assistance due to the lack of information. Puerperae are uninformed about some of the chances of puerperium support, above all about the home help of the freelance midwife and of the other professional figures (IBCLC) or voluntary workers helping with breastfeeding. On the contrary the counselling and the puerperium of the Hospital L. Mangiagalli in Milan are a well known entity.
Conclusion and practical relevance
During pregnancy every woman has to be informed about puerperium, breastfeeding and all the professional figures or voluntary workers that can give assistance and support. Doing that during pregnancy give to the future mothers a long time lapse to know and eventually receive explanation about the services present locally. So that, from the earliest days at home after birth, they’ll know to who will be better to address in case of necessity. Being able to contact several services allow every woman to chose the best figure depending on her necessities. In light of these considerations, during pregnancy the midwife is able to get women skills started by informing them about puerperium, breastfeeding and all the different possibilities of support present locally
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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