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Continuità e discontinuità tra i disturbi mentali del bambino e dell'adulto ( Parte I )
No full textLo studio ha esaminato i contatti con i Servizi SMIEE, SIMAP e SERT della intera popolazione di età compresa tra 20 e 30 anni (6676 persone) di un gruppo di Comuni limitrofi della Provincia di Reggio Emilia. In età infanto-adolescenziale l'8.9% delle persone di questa popolazione accede al Servizio Materno Infantile; in età adulta il 3% accede al SIMAP e il 2.8% al SERT. Lo 0.5% della popolazione accede sia allo SMIEE che al SIMAP; lo 0.2% accede sia allo SMIEE che al SERT. Il 17% degli utenti SIMAP e il 6.9% degli utenti SERT ha avuto, in età infantile o adolescenziale, un contatto con il Servizio per l'Infanzia. Sono stati esaminati - attraverso una griglia di lettura appositamente predisposta - i documenti clinici di 4 gruppi di soggetti: gruppo SMIEE-SIMAP (N=35) costituito da soggetti presi in carico sia dal Servizio psichiatrico per l'infanzia che da quello per gli adulti; gruppo SMIEE (N=35) costituito da soggetti presi in carico solo dal servizio per l'infanzia; gruppo SIMAP (N=35) costituito da soggetti che sono stati presi in carico solo dal Servizio psichiatrico per adulti; gruppo SMIEE-SERT (N= 13) costituito da soggetti presi in carico sia dal Servizio psichiatrico per l'infanzia che dal Servizio per le Tossicodipendenze in età adulta. I soggetti che dopo essere stati presi in carico dallo SMIEE saranno presi in carico dal SIMAP mostrano una stabilità dell'inquadramento diagnostico nel 25% dei casi. Nel 40% dei casi non ricevono in età infanto-adolescenziale alcuna definizione nosografica a fronte di una notevole complessità della loro condizione di vita, gravata da sfavorevoli fattori di vulnerabilità individuale e psicosociale. Negli altri casi la diagnosi in età infanto-adolescenziale non viene confermata in età adulta. Tutti i gruppi che accedono allo SMIEE sono gravati da frequenti fattori di vulnerabilità di natura psicosociale; solo nei gruppi in cui la condizione psicopatologica continua in età adulta sono presenti, tuttavia, in misura rilevante fattori di vulnerabilità neurobiologica - come una familiarità per Disturbo Mentale e condizioni di danno neurologico. Il gruppo SMIEE-SERT è quello quantitativamente più gravato da ogni tipo di fattore di vulnerabilità
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
How children-adolescents with primary headache and their parents evaluate the Headache Centre's intervention
No full textHeadache is one of the most common disorders that affect children and adolescents and its prevalence seems to have increased in the last 50 years [1]. Paediatricians often send children and adolescents suffering from headache to the various headache specialists for a diagnostic and therapeutic assessment of the disorder. Nevertheless, while adult headache patients’ satisfaction with the treatments has been widely investigated, less attention has been paid to children and adolescent headache patients’ opinions and their parents’ views. The aim of our follow-up study was to analyse the outcomes of the Headache Centre’ intervention and the evolution of headache according to patients till the age of 16 and their parents.
Methods. We included 84 patients (F: 45%, M: 55%; mean age: 12.9+2.9 years) with primary headache (migraine without aura: 66%, tension-type headache: 23%, migraine with aura: 11%) according to ICHD-II criteria [2], seen for the first time in 2005-2006, and at least one of their parents. The duration of the follow-up ranged from 1 to 3 years. To the aims of our study, a specific questionnaire was created and administered by a telephone interview, which was carried out according to Narrative Medicine’s approach [3].
Results. Seventy percent of the patients thought that their headache had improved; in particular, 63% said that the frequency of headache had decreased, while intensity had only diminished in 37% of the sample. More than half the subjects interviewed associated the improvement to the fact of feeling better when at school. The majority (60%) of the patients declared to have followed the Centre’s advice to minimize the factors causing headache; 87% had followed the prescriptions for acute attacks and these medications had been effective according to 77% of the patients. Only 16% of the parents reported to feel still anxious about their child’s health, while 84% declared to feel calmer after attending the Headache Centre; 72% of the subjects interviewed and of their parents reported that attending the Headache Centre had been useful to better understand and manage headache.
Conclusions. Children’s and adolescents’ headache has in most cases a favourable prognosis; the Headache Centre’s intervention is seen as effective by most patients and parents. Narrative Medicine’s approach is particularly fit to study headache from children’s, adolescents’, and families’ point of view
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
I disturbi mentali nelle persone con ritardo mentale: il problema del trattamento.
No full textL'attenzione del problema della dual-diagnosis è ricca di implicazioni cliniche come evidenzia uno studio condotto per più di cinque anni con una popolazione di Ritardi Mentali Gravi istituzionalizzati che è stato recentemente concluso e che sarà discusso nel Simposio
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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