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Prevalence of mood disorders and anxiety in people with epilepsy: a systematic review
No full textIntrodução: A epilepsia é reconhecida como um grupo de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis que têm em comum crises epilépticas recorrentes e está associada a maior predisposição a comorbidades psiquiátricas. Embora os transtornos de humor e de ansiedade ocorram frequentemente em pessoas com epilepsia e prejudiquem a qualidade de vida e os resultados do tratamento, os estudos atuais para investigar essas comorbidades permanecem com resultados insatisfatórios para a população com epilepsia nos países em desenvolvimento. Objetivos: Descrever a frequência dos transtornos de humor e ansiedade e as características clínicas e sociodemográficas de pessoas com epilepsia que apresentam esses transtornos. Métodos: Revisão de literatura nas bases de dados EMBASE, LILACS, PsycINFO, Pubmed e Scielo. Foram incluídos estudos transversais publicados nos últimos 5 anos, nos idiomas português e inglês, que avaliaram comorbidades em indivíduos com 18 anos ou mais com diagnóstico de epilepsia atendendo aos critérios da Liga Internacional Contra a Epilepsia. Resultados: Nossa busca rastreou 3.054 artigos, dos quais 3.047 foram excluídos por publicação duplicada e por serem incompatíveis com o tema devido a critérios de elegibilidade. Os resultados encontrados para diagnósticos psiquiátricos variaram de 18% a 52,6% para prevalência de transtornos de humor e de 6,5% a 33,4% para transtornos de ansiedade. Conclusão: Esta revisão encontrou maior prevalência de transtornos de humor e ansiedade em pessoas com epilepsia. Dessa forma, os médicos responsáveis pelo tratamento de pessoas com epilepsia devem estar atentos ao aumento das chances de transtornos de humor e ansiedade nesta população, a fim de realizar uma abordagem adequada a estes pacientes.
Background: Epilepsy is recognized as a group of chronic non-transmissible diseases that have recurrent epileptic seizures in common, and is associated with a greater predisposition to psychiatric comorbidities. Although mood and anxiety disorders frequently occur in people with epilepsy (PWE) and impair quality of life and treatment outcomes, current studies to investigate these comorbidities remain with unsatisfactory results for the epilepsy population in developing countries. Objectives: To describe the frequency of mood and anxiety disorders and the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of people with epilepsy presenting with these disorders. Methods: Literature review in EMBASE, LILACS, PsycINFO, Pubmed, and Scielo databases. Cross-sectional studies published in the last 5 years in Portuguese and English language were included, and that evaluated comorbidities in individuals aged 18 years or older with a diagnosis of epilepsy facing the International League Against Epilepsy criteria. Results: Our search tracked 3,054 articles, of which 3047 were excluded for duplicate publication and for being incompatible with the topic due to eligibility criteria. The results found for psychiatric diagnoses ranged from 18% to 52.6% for the prevalence of mood disorders and 6.5% to 33.4% for anxiety disorders. Conclusion: This review found a higher prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders in PWE. Thus, physicians responsible for treating people with epilepsy should be aware of the increased chances of mood and anxiety disorders in this population in order to take an appropriate approach to these patients
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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