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Caso Clinico: Colloquio clinico e misurazione si incontrano in uno spazio d’ascolto per pazienti psoriasici. Un’esperienza italiana
No full textObjective:to combine listening therapy of patients with psoriasis
with statistical measurement of the variables identified in the areas
studied with the interview.
In particular, we investigate the association between awareness-
the capacity of psoriatic patients to connect stressful events with the
debut and / or exacerbation of the disease- and the variables considered
in the interview.
Materials and Methods:sample consisting of 30 patients with
psoriasis (10 women, 20 men). Areas and variables measured: a) socio-demographic variables of the patient, b) the patient’s medical history, c)
Assessment of the clinical and participant observer. The collected data
were organized into two-dimensional contingency tables constructed by
crossing each time the variable “knowledge” with the other variables,
then the model bivariate log-linear saturated was applied.
Results:The presence of awareness in the patient appears to be
associated with a greater ability to bring different stressful events (z
= 2.20 **) and to express emotions (z = 2.74 **), in addition, these
patients more often reported to have suffered changes in negative
image of himself (z = 2.04 **) and in the relationship with partners (z
= 1.96 **) due to the disease. Increased awareness is found in patients
with other cases of psoriasis in the family (z = 2.09 **) and who are
suffering from a form of moderate- severe disease (z = 2.36 **). Finally,
the presence of awareness in the exordium and in the aggravetion of
the disease is associated with a lower number of treatments made by
patients (z = 1.89 *)
Conclusions:The psychological person-focused listening is
integrated with the need to statistically test the hypotheses. Future
studies may investigate the relationship between quality of life and
consciousnes
(2007) Parole silenziose e marchi sulla pelle. Indagine psicologica condotta con il metodo Rorschach su soggetti affetti da psoriasi.
No full textObiettivo. Evidenziare tratti e caratteristiche di personalità peculiari ai soggetti affetti da psoriasi. Nello specifico ci aspettiamo la presenza di: 1. difficoltà nel riconoscere ed esprimere gli affetti; 2. approccio semplicistico e concreto alla realtà; 3. apparente buon adattamento sociale dietro al quale si celano mancanza di empatia e asocialità con evitamento dei conflitti; 4. immagine di Sé distorta da un vissuto di stigmatizzazione. Materiali e Metodi. Campione: 20 soggetti psoriasici; controllo: 20 soggetti affetti da patologie cutanee ad eziologia organica. Metodi: Test di Rorschach valutato col Metodo Comprensivo di Exner. Risultati. È confermata la tendenza da parte dei soggetti psoriasici ad un approccio concreto alla realtà, concomitante a un peculiare bisogno di controllo rigido, formale, dispendioso e a volte fallimentare che si manifesta nella gestione delle richieste affettive e sociali (indici: Lambda, FC, FC:CF+C, W:M, X-%). In particolare è emerso come il nostro campione viva un’esperienza affettiva “passiva” mediata da elementi di natura cognitiva che sembrano quasi tagliarli fuori dai loro affetti, favorendone una sorta di paralisi (indici: EB, FM:M, FM:m). È confermata, inoltre, l’ipotesi secondo la quale i soggetti psoriasici, dietro un apparente buon adattamento alla realtà, celino mancanza di empatia, sospetto e pessimismo nei confronti dell’ambiente circostante ( indici: SumT, COP). Tale atteggiamento si riflette anche nei confronti della patologia, portandoli a sviluppare un vissuto di stigmatizzazione che convoglia ansia e preoccupazioni sui risvolti sociali ed ambientali più che sulla possibile evoluzione della malattia (indici: An, MOR). Conclusioni. Differenze nelle caratteristiche di personalità, non solo tra il gruppo di controllo ed i pazienti psoriasici ma anche tra questi ultimi ed il paziente psicosomatico in generale
The indirect effect of a focus group for psoriatic patients on their caregivers
Full text linkPsoriasis is a chronic skin disease involving not only epidermic damages but also psychological distress for patients and their family caregivers. Little is known about the effects of a psychological support for psoriatic patients on their caregivers' well-being. The goal of the present study was to investigate the indirect effects of the participation in a dynamic focus group reserved for psoriatic patients on their caregivers in terms of quality of life. The study involved 52 psoriatic patients and 41 family caregivers. Patients' wellbeing was assessed using the dermatology quality of life index, hospital anxiety and depression scale. The impact of the disease on caregivers was assessed using the family dermatology life quality index (FDLQI). Data were analyzed with linear mixed models. The caregivers of psoriatic patients involved in the psychodynamic focus group reported levels of FDLQI that decreased over time, therefore showing an improvement in their quality of life in relation to the pathology of their relatives; the caregivers of patients who did not participate in the psychodynamic focus group, instead, had levels of FDLQI that were stable over time. The results provide preliminary evidence that the group setting of the Psychodynamic Focus Group may alleviate the negative impact of psychosomatic disease on the caregivers
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
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