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The burden of attempted suicide: The attitude of emergency services workers
No full textIntroduction The great global burden of suicide requires specific
preventive strategies focused on emergency services (ES) workers,
providing first aid after attempted suicide.
Objectives To investigate the approach of ES workers toward
attempted suicides, and to assess work-related stress and teamwork
attitude as variables likely to influence suicide risk
perception.
Methods A total of 265 ES workers (73 medical doctors, 130
nurses, 62 health and social care workers) from 3 hospitals in the
area of Modena (Northern Italy) were involved. In a group setting,
titles from local newspapers reporting about suicides were
read, and ES workers were asked to fill in 3 psychometric scale
questionnaires (SUIATT, MBI and SAQ).
Results The questionnaires returned were 88 (33%), 47% (n = 42)
were filled by women, median age was 40 years. Doctors group had
the highest response rate (60%). Burnout levels were intermediate
at the Emotional Exhaustion subscale, severe at the Depersonalization
subscale and mild at the Professional Efficacy subscale.
Eighteen percent recorded a good team perception, 33% had a good
perception of their work conditions. SUIATT subscales showed a
restrictive attitude toward suicide, regardless of hospital and task.
Discussion No associations emerged among SUIATT, MBI and SAQ
subscales; male sex alone correlated to the SUIATT factor “rationality/
mental alteration”, suggesting more “tolerance” of suicidal
behaviour.
Conclusions It is crucial to raise awareness among ES workers
on this issue, since those workers considering suicide as “more
acceptable” are more likely to recognise its signs
Disturbi del comportamento alimentare in pazienti uomini trattati presso un servizio di Day Hospital in Psichiatria
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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
Burn-out syndrome among Italian psychiatry residents: Results for Italy from the BOSS international study
No full textBackground and aims: Acknowledged risk factorsfor burnout syndrome include being a mental healthworker, younger age (in the sense of less professionalexperience) and status as a residents. The aim of theBOSS International Study was to put all these and otherrisk factors together and study their associations, aspredictors of this undesirable condition. 20 countriesworldwide were involved. Results from the Italianparticipants are displayed and discussed here.Methods: An invitation to join in the study was sentto 193 residents in psychiatry from the whole nationalterritory of Italy, including a link to the BOSS onlinequestionnaire (Italian version); this collects data ondemographics, education, working circumstances, andfrom five psychometric instruments (Maslach BurnoutInventory – MBI-GS, Areas of Worklife Survey, PHQ-9,Big Five Inventory - 10, Suicide Ideation and BehaviourQuestionnaire).Results: A total of 113 residents completed the survey(58.5% response rate, 22/78% M/F, mean age 30.3-3.7). Mean scores at the three MBI components were2.9 (exhaustion), 1.9 (cynicism) and 4.8 (professionalefficacy), accounting for low levels of burnout amongthe respondents. 14% of respondents confessed theywere on daily medication, mainly antidepressants (42%)and self-prescribed (50%). Out of all respondents, 34.8%met criteria for PHQ-9 minor depression, and 8.9%. formajor depression. Only PHQ9-depression was found tobe a statistically significant predictor of burnout.Conclusions: Despite the low level of burnout amongItalian residents in psychiatry, other findings in theBOSS survey suggested the need for improved supportand tutoring of young psychiatrists-to-be. This presents asignificant challenge for training organisations
Eating disorders in male patients: medical and psychiatric co-morbidity
No full textntroduction
Men make up approximately 10% of the diagnoses of specified Eating Disorders (ED), with Bulimia Nervosa more common in men than Anorexia. However, Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) are more prevalent in men than Anorexia and Bulimia combined. Rates of concurrent depression and personality disorders are also high in men with EDNOS, as well as rates of medical co-morbidity.
Objectives
To describe a sample of male patients attending a Psychiatric Day Hospital.
Aims
To understand possible links between the diagnosis of ED and medical and psychiatric co-morbidity among male subjects.
Methods
Clinical data about male patients attending the Psychiatric Day Hospital of Modena from 05/01/2009 to 13/06/2012 were collected and analyzed. Psychiatric diagnoses were defined according to DSM IV criteria, medical comorbidities according to ICD10 criteria.
Results
Male patients with ED were on the whole 11 (7.9% of total patients). Nine of them (81.8%) were diagnosed with EDNOS; 7 had medical co-morbidity, namely gastrointestinal (36.4%), respiratory (9.1%), renal (9.1%), rheumatologic (18.2%), cardiac (9.1%) and hypertension (16.6%); 9 had psychiatric co-morbidity, namely personality disorders (46.2%), major depression (30.8%), substance abuse (15.4%) and anxiety disorders (7.7%). Only 1 male patient (9.1%) was suffering from the ED, with no medical or psychiatric co-morbidity.
Conclusions
Male patients suffering from ED are increasing and knowledge on their clinical features are less clear than for female subjects, resulting in a more difficult and less effective clinical management. Despite the small sample size, this study attempts to increase the understanding of this clinical population
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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