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Maternity and Meaning-Making: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Health Educational Experiences of Pregnant and Parenting Youth
No full textRegardless of maternal age, the transition to motherhood is acknowledged as one of the most challenging in the life cycle. This transition poses even greater challenges for young mothers that are experiencing housing instability. Grounded in the words and stories of women, the aim of this study was to elicit, explore, and interpret the experiences of a group of pregnant and parenting youth living in a residential maternity shelter and accessing community-based services. More concretely, this study explored how a group of pregnant and parenting young women came to construct their health related knowledge and views, and how these perceptions fit with their expectations and experiences. Guided by a constructivist lens and informed by a multiple instrumental case study approach, this study addressed two overarching research questions: 1) how do pregnant and parenting youth come to understand maternal health? and 2) how do the meanings they construct relate to their lived experiences and contexts?
A combination of convenience and snowball sampling strategies were used to recruit 11 women, aged 17-20 and living in a temporary maternity shelter in Eastern Ontario, to participate in a series of in depth interviews. From these interviews, four central themes were recognized: 1) the influence of the living environment on learning and health, 2) the perinatal period as a time of reflection and re-envisioning, 3) pregnancy as a catalyst for change, and 4) learning resources and resourcefulness. This qualitative case study revealed that learning and meaning-making in the perinatal period are complex, contextually situated, and fundamentally influenced by environment, experience, culture, and activity.
Pregnancy influenced how participants felt about themselves, their bodies, their relationships, and the choices they were presented with. The young pregnant women in this study used varied resources to shape and inform their health-related knowledge and views. While young pregnant women may be subject to similar influences and expectations in pregnancy as the general pregnant population, their health educational experiences differed due to a combination of their learning needs and preferences, the intensity and frequency of stigmatization they faced, the multifaceted transitions they were negotiating, as well as their relative lack of resources. Thus, the findings of this study illustrate the importance of understanding the experiences of young pregnant women in order to support their health and educational experiences
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
Uncovering cynicism in medical training: a qualitative analysis of medical online discussion forums
No full textObjective The development of cynicism in medicine,
defined as a decline in empathy and emotional
neutralisation during medical training, is a significant
concern for medical educators. We sought to use online
medical student discussion groups to provide insight into
how cynicism in medicine is perceived, the consequences
of cynicism on medical trainee development and potential
links between the hidden curriculum and cynicism.
Setting Online analysis of discussion topics in Premed101
(Canadian) and Student Doctor Network (American)
forums.
Participants 511 posts from seven discussion topics
were analysed using NVivo 11. Participants in the forums
included medical students, residents and practising
physicians.
Methods Inductive content analysis was used to
develop a data-driven coding scheme that evolved
throughout the analysis. Measures were taken to ensure
the trustworthiness of findings, including duplicate
independent coding of a sub-sample of posts and the
maintenance of an audit trail.
Results Medical students, residents and practising
physicians participating in the discussion forums engaged
in discourse about cynicism and highlighted themes of the
hidden curriculum resulting in cynicism. These included
the progression of cynicism over the course of medical
training as a coping mechanism; the development of
challenging work environments due to factors such as
limited support, hierarchical demands and long work
hours; and the challenge of initiating change due to the
tolerance of unprofessionalism and the highly stressful
nature of medicine.
Conclusion Our unique study of North American medical
discussion posts demonstrates that cynicism develops
progressively and is compounded by conflicts between the
hidden and formal curriculum. Online discussion groups
are a novel resource to provide insight into the culture of
medical training
Uncovering cynicism in medical training: a qualitative analysis of medical online discussion forums
No full textThe development of cynicism in medicine, defined as a decline in empathy and emotional neutralisation during medical training, is a significant concern for medical educators. We sought to use online medical student discussion groups to provide insight into how cynicism in medicine is perceived, the consequences of cynicism on medical trainee development and potential links between the hidden curriculum and cynicism
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