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“It is against my religion” The attitude of the midwife in increasing access to safe abortion care in Ghana: A qualitative study design
Full text linkBackground: Unsafe abortion remains a major public health problem in spite of international convention calling for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and the provision of safe abortion services. Standards and protocols developed by the Ghana Health Service in 2006 authorized midwives to provide early induced abortion services under the law.
Objective: The purpose of the study was to understand midwives’ readiness to be involved in increasing access to legal safe induced abortion care in primary health facilities in Ghana.
Methods: A qualitative research approach using semi-structured topic guide for individual indepth interviews on purposefully selected participants was adopted. The interviews were recorded on tape and analysed using content analysis approach.
Results: Participants revealed various reasons behind their choice of midwifery as a profession. They emphasised on reasons such as their past experiences on maternal deaths in their community, passion for the health of pregnant women and their willingness to help reduce maternal mortalities in Ghana. Knowledge on Ghana’s abortion law was found to be generally low among the participants. They expressed different views on the provision of safe abortion services in their facility. Some felt it was against their religious belief and that it is sinful to provide abortion services, whilst others felt it was good to save the lives of women. Religion was highlighted as one of the main reasons why some participants would not provide abortion services in their facility.
Conclusion: There was a realization that maternal mortality is a problem in Ghana and participants were enthuse to help reduce it. The main motivator for midwives to provide abortion services in their facility was to help reduce maternal mortality. A pronounced hindrance for midwives to provide abortion services was religion
“It is against my religion” The attitude of the midwife in increasing access to safe abortion care in Ghana: A qualitative study design
No full textBackground: Unsafe abortion remains a major public health problem in spite of international convention calling for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and the provision of safe abortion services. Standards and protocols developed by the Ghana Health Service in 2006 authorized midwives to provide early induced abortion services under the law.
Objective: The purpose of the study was to understand midwives’ readiness to be involved in increasing access to legal safe induced abortion care in primary health facilities in Ghana.
Methods: A qualitative research approach using semi-structured topic guide for individual indepth interviews on purposefully selected participants was adopted. The interviews were recorded on tape and analysed using content analysis approach.
Results: Participants revealed various reasons behind their choice of midwifery as a profession. They emphasised on reasons such as their past experiences on maternal deaths in their community, passion for the health of pregnant women and their willingness to help reduce maternal mortalities in Ghana. Knowledge on Ghana’s abortion law was found to be generally low among the participants. They expressed different views on the provision of safe abortion services in their facility. Some felt it was against their religious belief and that it is sinful to provide abortion services, whilst others felt it was good to save the lives of women. Religion was highlighted as one of the main reasons why some participants would not provide abortion services in their facility.
Conclusion: There was a realization that maternal mortality is a problem in Ghana and participants were enthuse to help reduce it. The main motivator for midwives to provide abortion services in their facility was to help reduce maternal mortality. A pronounced hindrance for midwives to provide abortion services was religion
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
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