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sj-docx-3-chi-10.1177_17423953211060253 - Supplemental material for Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-chi-10.1177_17423953211060253 for Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT by Chidiebere Nwolise, Pippa Corrie, Ray Fitzpatrick, Avinash Gupta, Crispin Jenkinson, Mark Middleton and Rubeta Matin in Chronic Illness</p
sj-docx-2-chi-10.1177_17423953211060253 - Supplemental material for Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-chi-10.1177_17423953211060253 for Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT by Chidiebere Nwolise, Pippa Corrie, Ray Fitzpatrick, Avinash Gupta, Crispin Jenkinson, Mark Middleton and Rubeta Matin in Chronic Illness</p
sj-docx-1-chi-10.1177_17423953211060253 - Supplemental material for Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-chi-10.1177_17423953211060253 for Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT by Chidiebere Nwolise, Pippa Corrie, Ray Fitzpatrick, Avinash Gupta, Crispin Jenkinson, Mark Middleton and Rubeta Matin in Chronic Illness</p
Development and Testing of the UK SF-12
No full textObjectives: The 36 item short form health survey (SF-36) has proved to be of use in a variety of settings where a short generic health measure of patient-assessed outcome is required. This measure can provide an eight dimension profile of health status, and two summary scores assessing physical function and mental well-being. The developers of the SF-36 in America have developed algorithms to yield the two summary component scores in a questionnaire containing only one-third of the original 36 items, the SF-12. This paper documents the construction of the UK SF-12 summary measures from a large-scale dataset from the UK in which the SF-36, together with other questions on health and lifestyles, was sent to randomly selected members of the population. Using these data we attempt here to replicate the findings of the SF-36 developers in the UK setting, and then to assess the use of SF-12 summary scores in a variety of clinical conditions. Methods: Factor analytical methods were used to derive the weights used to construct the physical and mental component scales from the SF-36. Regression methods were used to weight the 12 items recommended by the developers to construct the SF-12 physical and mental component scores. This analysis was undertaken on a large community sample ( n = 9332), and then the results of the SF-36 and SF-12 were compared across diverse patient groups (Parkinson's disease, congestive heart failure, sleep apnoea, benign prostatic hypertrophy). Results: Factor analysis of the SF-36 produced a two factor solution. The factor loadings were used to weight the physical component summary score (PCS-36) and mental component summary score (MCS-36). Results gained from the use of these measures were compared with results gained from the PCS-12 and MCS-12, and were found to be highly correlated (PCS: ρ = 0.94, p < 0.001; MCS: ρ = 0.96, p < 0.001), and produce remarkably similar results, both in the community sample and across a variety of patient groups. Conclusions: The SF-12 is able to produce the two summary scales originally developed from the SF-36 with considerable accuracy and yet with far less respondent burden. Consequently, the SF-12 may be an instrument of choice where a short generic measure providing summary information on physical and mental health status is required. Crispin Jenkinson DPhil, Deputy Director </jats:sec
Inflammaging and Its Role in Ageing and Age-Related Diseases
No full textEvolution in medicine?! Never heard of it! This quote, in essence, sums up the reaction of a medical doctor who kindly accepted to review the proposal for this book. Far from substantiating the received idea according to which doctors are against any new approach to their field, it shows that health professionals know little about the relevance of evolutionary thinking for medical practice. At first, this may be surprising: the idea that evolution can inform medicine is not new— Erasmus Darwin, Darwin’s grandfather and a medical practitioner, hinted at this conceptual breakthrough more than 200 years ago—and evolutionary biologists have pleaded for more evolution into medicine for about two decades. In addition, medicine is repeatedly confronted to evolution: practitioners have to deal with antibiotic resistance, the rapid changes of a virus, or the evolution of tumour cells. Yet, evolution is not part of the medical curriculum of most universities and what is more, most medical students and doctors have just “never heard of it”. At second glance, however, this is not surprising
Pårørende til personer med demens sine erfaringer med bruk av velferdsteknologi i hjemmet
Get PDFTre engelske forskere, Vimal Siram, Crispin Jenkinson og Michele Peters, har gjen-nomført en systematisk litteraturstudie av internasjonal forskningslitteratur om pa -rørende til personer med demens sine erfaringer med bruk av velferdsteknologi i hjemmet
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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