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Needs Assessment: Young People’s Drug and Alcohol Services in Edinburgh City - Final Report
Get PDFThe aim of this needs assessment is to inform the implementation of priority 1 and 3 of the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (EADP) Children, Young People and Families Action Plan (2011) which states: - ‘Fewer children and young people using drugs and children and young people choosing to drink alcohol start later in life and take fewer risks.' - ‘More children and young people receive appropriate and timely support for alcohol and drug use' To do this effectively, the needs assessment set out to fulfil the following aims: - Provide an understanding of local need in relation to young people and alcohol and drug use in Edinburgh. - Analyse best practice in alcohol and drug services for young people elsewhere in Scotland and the UK. - Provide recommendations for future service development. Objectives: - To identify the prevalence of problem alcohol and drug use among young people in Edinburgh. - To map existing drug and alcohol services in Edinburgh. - To explore young people's perceptions of an effective alcohol and drug service. - To provide an overview of models of good practice in young people's alcohol and drug services elsewhere in Scotland and the UK. - To make recommendations regarding priorities and models for young people's alcohol and drug services in Edinburgh
How healthcare professionals in Scotland develop their communication skills, attitudes and behaviours
Get PDFThe ability to communicate clearly and form effective, productive relationships is essential for the provision of high quality person-centred care and are therefore required skills and behaviours for practitioners in all areas of healthcare. Person-centred care involves placing the patient and their experiences at the heart of care (Coulter et al., 2009) and is one of the quality ambitions of the Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHS Scotland (Scottish Government, 2010)
Supporting Communication Skills and Behaviours in Healthcare Staff: Evaluation of Two Pilots: The CARE Approach and Practice Based Small Group Learning - Summary Report
Get PDFThe ability to communicate effectively and to form productive human relationships is integral to the provision of effective, high quality, person‐centred care. This evaluation of 10 pilot sites across Scotland builds on previous work undertaken by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and focuses on two approaches that aim to support the communication and human relationship skills of health practitioners and the integration of those skills into routine interactions with patients. The two approaches used were ‘The CARE Approach' (CARE) and Practice‐Based Small Group Learning (PBSGL)
Evaluation of Suboxone Feasibility Study in Ireland
No full textThe aim of this evaluation was: To review the use of Suboxone in the Irish context. The evaluation was specific to the use of Suboxone for the treatment of opioid dependence. The evaluation did not consider the use of buprenorphine products for pain relief. The specific objectives of the evaluation were: 1) T o evaluate how patients were selected for participation in the Suboxone feasibility study and how they progressed through it. 2) To examine how the prescribing and dispensing of Suboxone for patients operated in the Irish setting. 3) To consider the practical operation of the feasibility study including prescription writing, the operation of the Suboxone database and the role of key agencies. 4) To identify the core elements of the regulatory framework needed for the safe and appropriate use of Suboxone in the Irish setting. Create Consultancy Ltd., an independent agency specializing in substance misuse and health improvement, based in Glasgow, Scotland, tendered for the contract to carry out this evaluation in June 2010 and was successful. The evaluation was carried out between October 2010 and February 2011
Drug and alcohol education consultancy service for mainstream secondary schools: final report
Get PDFThis report describes and discusses the delivery and outcomes of a project in which Glasgow City Council mainstream secondary schools received support from Create Consultancy to improve their curricular provision on drug and alcohol issues
West Dunbartonshire pupil health survey 2006
Get PDFThis report outlines findings from the West Dunbartonshire Pupil Health and Wellbeing Study which was carried out with approximately 40% of pupils in the year groups S1 to S4 in secondary educational establishments between April and September 2006. One of the main purposes of the study was to provide information about the health and wellbeing of pupils in the local area and individual establishments in order to assist with local planning
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
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
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