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Physical activity health promotion program for the group home setting
No full textMenu-Choice is a program that was developed to provide physical activity support and education to group homes that house adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). It has been shown that the physical activity levels for individuals living in group homes are low. This program was designed to provide direct care service staff and managers with a template to help residents increase their physical activity.
In order to design the program, an “Advisory Group” of 19 participants consisting of residents with I/DD, program coordinators, support staff, and a group home agency director, was put together. The “Advisory Group” provided insight into daily operations within the group homes as well as barriers and motivators of physical activity for the residents.
Using information provided by the “Advisory Group” a program binder was created. The program includes seven steps to educate staff and residents about physical activity and how to implement it over the course of eight weeks. The several steps also contain information on how to set a goal and how to document those goals once they have been reached. Along with the seven steps, a supplemental materials section was added to include motivational techniques, a number of ways to document baseline activity and progress, and examples of various kinds of activities (i.e. cardio/motor, strength, and flexibility activities). Simplicity was kept in mind when the program was created to ensure full comprehension.
Menu-Choice was implemented into five group home sites for adults with I/DD. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with follow-up was conducted. Fourteen program coordinators, 22 staff, and 18 residents participated. The results concluded after the ten-week program will help refine the program for continued implementation trials in the group home community
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“HEMS” Physical activity health education program for persons with multiple sclerosis
Full text linkPurpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of Health Education for Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (HEMS) on increasing physical activity (PA) behavior and constructs of Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), such as outcome expectations, self-efficacy, social support, and goal achievement in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Results have shown there is little translational research on increasing PA in this population. However, it has been demonstrated that physical activity is linked to improved performance of activities of daily living, reduced severity of secondary conditions related to MS, and overall improvements in quality of life.
Methods: Recruitment for participation in this study was achieved through the existing MS exercise clinic at Oregon State University. 21 participants were initially recruited for the intervention. However, only 13 participants completed the health education program and completed measurable data. The average years of living with MS for participants was 14 years, with 63% displaying relapsing remitting MS, 32% secondary progressive MS, and 5% primary progressive MS. Participants underwent an 8 week baseline assessment, followed by 8 weeks of the intervention, which consisted of health education to increase PA and SCT constructs. To evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention, PA measurements were obtained from pedometers and PA logs while SCT constructs were measured by questionnaires.
Results: Baseline assessment of eighteen participants (15 female; M age 55) showed an average of 4,845 steps completed weekly, moderate self-efficacy (M 6.16/10), moderate to high outcome expectations (M 4.09/5), moderate social support to be active (M 2.99/5), and occasionally set activity goals (M 2.66/5). Post-assessment analysis of the 13 participant’s data showed no significant increases among the SCT constructs. Data showed that individuals completed an average of 3814 steps weekly, reported increased self-efficacy (M 7.98/10; p=0.08), moderate outcome expectations (3.96/5), moderate social support to be active (2.11/5), and occasionally set activity goals (M 2.83/5).
Conclusion: It is believed that providing health education increases the amount of time individuals spend per week participating in PA behavior. At baseline, participants had a low PA and have a margin for improvement in the constructs. We anticipated that participants would increase their time spent participating in PA behavior, setting and achieving goals associated with PA, improve self-efficacy toward PA, and gain social support surrounding PA. However, post-assessment data analysis did not support the expected hypotheses. Evaluation of the current health education material may be required to determine if effective modifications to the curriculum are needed. Potential modifications to consider include; alternative modes of assessment such as new physical activity logs, less frequent assessment to avoid “burn-out” of participants, and an online module for health education delivery in order to reach a larger sample population
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
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Examining the effectiveness of physical activity health education programs for persons with multiple sclerosis: a quantitative examination.
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Examining the effectiveness of physical activity health education programs for persons with multiple sclerosis: a quantitative examination.
No full text• Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an auto-immune disease affecting
400,000 people in the United States
• Physical Activity (PA) has been demonstrated to improve
quality of life for persons with MS
• HEMS is a theoretically based program that aims to increase
participatio
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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