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The role of goal planning in supporting the health and wellbeing of people experiencing mental illness
No full textGoal planning is a central intervention in mental healthcare, focused on changing behaviours and supporting service users to adapt to and manage their illnesses. However, there is currently limited understanding of the types of goals being planned, the experiences of service users and practitioners, or the effectiveness of goal planning as an intervention in mental healthcare, particularly within community pharmacy settings. This doctoral research responds to the gap in literature and knowledge by investigating how goal planning was used in a community pharmacist-led intervention to support the health and wellbeing of service users with a lived experience of severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMIs). Using the Bridging the Gap between Physical and Mental Illness in Community Pharmacy (PharMIbridge) Randomised Control Trial (RCT) data, this dissertation draws on insights from a pragmatic, mixed method study that addressed the research questions through four Phases, including a systematic literature review, qualitative coding of the PharMIbridge goals, an evaluation of the PharMIbridge goal adherence to the SMART goal model, and qualitative analysis of PharMIbridge service user and pharmacist participant interviews. [...]Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Pharmacy & Med SciGriffith HealthFull Tex
Building Capacity for Pharmacists in Perinatal Depression Care – Development, Implementation and Psychometric Evaluation of Instruments to Measure Literacy, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours
No full textPerinatal depression (PND) affects approximately 10-15% of women, worldwide. Australian and international guidelines have acknowledged and encouraged pharmacists' current and future roles in mental healthcare, such as supporting early detection. However, primary healthcare professionals require the appropriate skills to ensure that they approach, screen, and refer women at risk of PND appropriately. Pharmacists are primary healthcare professionals who are involved in various aspects of mental healthcare, including but not limited to medication management, dispensing and counselling. Literacy, knowledge and attitudes can influence healthcare professionals' behaviours. The aim of this thesis was to explore pharmacists' PND literacy, knowledge and attitudes towards PND, including screening acceptability. To this effect, measures of literacy, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours were developed, implemented and psychometrically tested. Two systematic reviews of the literature pertaining to the psychometric properties of depression screening tools and the acceptability of PND screening were conducted, indicating the lack of consistency in the literature when defining key concepts pertaining to mental health research. A 24-item PND attitudes and screening acceptability questionnaire (PASAQ) was developed and psychometrically tested using principal components analysis, resulting in six components. The test re-test reliability of three commonly used mental health literacy scales were explored using Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test. Two factors were generated from exploratory factor analysis of a seven-item scale measuring comfort with providing PND. Two mental health vignettes and an assessment rubric were developed to assess Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) students’ Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) skills. The vignettes and rubric have been embedded into the BPharm curriculum and are used to assess students’ observed behaviours during simulated patient role-play with mental health consumers, post MHFA training. By developing, psychometrically testing and implementing measurement instruments to assess pharmacists’ literacy, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours, this thesis paves the way for pharmacists’ growing roles in mental healthcare
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
Over-the-counter drugs for pre-menstrual syndrome:Is the pharmacist still part of the picture?
No full textBackground: Pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) includes a wide range of symptoms, affects women of reproductive age and often leads to self-diagnosis and self-medication. Many products are available from the community pharmacy for PMS symptoms without a doctor's prescription. Aims: This study aims to examine female pharmacy consumers' perceived efficacy of non-prescription products marketed for PMS and period pain, which include vitex, evening primrose oil, ibuprofen, mefenamic acid and naproxen. It also aims to quantify the pharmacist's role in product recommendation based on women's perceptions. Method: The study utilises a ten-question survey. Participants were females experiencing PMS, who were recruited from nine community pharmacies in Darwin and Palmerston, over 3 or 6 weeks, between July and October 2012. Results: A response rate of 31.3% was achieved and 45 completed questionnaires were included in the final data analysis. Among the participants, the most commonly used non-prescription products were the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (83%). Only 22% of reported recommendations were made by a pharmacist. Conclusion: PMS is a condition which consumers often choose to treat with non-prescription products; however, their choice of product does not always reflect the symptoms experienced. Pharmacists did not appear to play a major role in product recommendation, and the role of pharmacists might have been minimised owing to the sensitive nature of the condition at hand.</p
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