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The Lived Experience of Residential Home Care : An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study of the experiences of young adults who reside in therapeutic residential care in Denmark
Full text linkResidential care is, in many countries, a living arrangement for young people with behavioural problems who require a level of help which is beyond their own family’s resources. Research on residential care has, in recent years, focused on outcomes, intervention evaluation and economy including comparison with alternative care forms. Relatively little research has been conducted on how young people experience living in care. For example, the systematic review conducted as part of this thesis found from a systematic international search just 12 qualitative papers published between 1990 and 2020 which included residents’ accounts in the findings. This thesis’ empirical study engaged interpretative phenomenological analysis as the methodology to investigate the lived experiences of eight young adults who lived in Danish therapeutic residential care. The participants engaged in two individual semi-structured interviews where their accounts of the experience of living in residential care as young people and young adults formed the study’s data. Four group experiential themes are presented as the study’s findings: (1) “They [carers] go up to the young people and talk to them”: Navigating the challenge of staff-system-resident relationships. (2) “I am just more grown up”: The experience of transitions towards adulthood and life beyond residential care. (3) “… actually, they wanted me back”: The experience of having family and friends while living in care. (4) “I said yes, she told me that was good…”: Making sense of receiving help and developing self-help. As an original contribution to knowledge this study concludes with a discussion which highlights the resulting stress from moving both into care and during care, the importance the participants placed on feeling able to develop and ultimately leave care at a pace independent of legislative time frames, and how family, for five of the participants, was experienced as the most stable factor during their residency
“… I still need to learn some things” : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of extended residential youth care in Denmark
No full textYouth residential home care is, in many countries, terminated at 18 years of age. However, current research suggests that leaving care at 18 is associated with several negative or suboptimal outcomes. Denmark has, in response to this, established an extension of care which can continue until the age of 23 years. This study aimed to provide a detailed understanding of the experiences of living in the Danish extended care program. This qualitative study explored the experiences of eight young adult residents (4 men and 4 women). Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the residents’ accounts which constructed three group experiential themes: (1) “It was me; I just didn’t want to listen:” The experience of the transition to adulthood while in residential care. (2) “I still need to learn some things:” The experience of maturation in extended care. (3) “They don’t come running to me every day anymore:” The experience of preparing to transition out of extended care. This study has important implications for practice given the sample’s perceived inability to live independently outside of care at 18 years of age. The findings support current arguments for establishing an extended care system in countries which currently only offer juvenile residential care
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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