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Music Therapy at a Respiratory Medicine Clinic: An Inquiry into the Experiences of Patients and Staff
No full textAbstractMusic Therapy at a Respiratory Medicine Clinic – an Inquiry into the Experiences of Patients and Staff.For patients with a lung disease every day can be a struggle just to breathe and they often suffer from dyspnea, a feeling of not being able to breathe sufficiently to survive or to take care of even basic everyday tasks. As oxygen and being able to breathe is vital to our survival, it is no surprise that a feeling of dyspnea can cause anxiety and panic attacks, just as having a serious illness can. Even though there is a complex relationship between psyche and soma, and research shows a higher prevalence of anxiety disorders as well as depression in patients with lung diseases, the somatic medical system in Denmark has only very little awareness of the psychological side of somatic illness during hospitalization.Purpose: The purpose of this master’s thesis is to explore whether and how music therapy during hospitalization can help lung patients deal with the psychological aspects of being seriously ill, how patients and staff experienced the presence of a music therapy intern on the ward, and what bearing a psychodynamic treatment, such as music therapy, might have on a somatic medical ward. Method: To answer these questions the investigator conducted a hermeneutic inquiry using qualitative methods such as a literature review, two interview studies using thematic analysis, and a descriptive analysis of two questionnaire surveys. Data: The data in this investigation consists of two questionnaire surveys, for staff and patients respectively, carried out during the last month of the investigator’s internship, as well as two interview studies, including interviews with two patients who received individual music therapy during their hospitalization, and three staff members from the respiratory medical clinic.Results: The results show that music therapy during hospitalization can be helpful to some patients with lung diseases in order to cope with the emotional stress of having a serious illness, to reduce pain, handle information given by medical staff, and through relaxation get a feeling of being able to breathe more freely. The two patients being interviewed experienced music therapy to be helpful to them, and felt that environmental music therapy had a positive impact on the atmosphere at the ward. Through the questionnaire surveys it is shown that many patients and staff thought environmental music therapy to be a pleasurable experience, but that some found it to be stressful and annoying, and the staff members reported a very mixed experience of music therapy, as some felt the music was an unnecessary disturbance on very busy days, but a pleasurable experience on calmer days. The result also shows that personal attitudes towards music, as well as music preference and mood has a great influence on how music therapy is perceived, and whether it is thought to be appropriate in a hospital ward.The study gives bearing that a psychodynamic treatment, such as music therapy, might have a place on a medical ward, as some patients need help dealing with psychological issues and have energy and a wish to do so during hospitalization, but that great awareness has to be made as to when and where music therapy is offered, to avoid burdening other patients and staff
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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