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The use of herbs in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Türkiye: A cross-sectional study
No full textIntroduction: Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which are becoming increasingly common around the world, are chronic conditions that affect people's quality of life. This study aims to evaluate the use of herbal products by adults diagnosed with IBD in remission and to investigate the factors associated with the use of herbal products.
Methodology: This study was conducted on 425 adult participants aged 18-65 years (Males = 154, Females = 271) diagnosed with IBD (UC = 295, CD = 130) who were referred to the gastroenterology outpatient clinics of two university hospitals. Data were collected using a questionnaire with three parts: socio-demographic, disease-related, and use of herbal products.
Results: The most commonly used medicinal plants were Zingiber officinale Roscoe (40.5%), Curcuma longa L. (38.1%) and Momordica charantia L. (24.2%). There was a significant difference in the use of herbal products according to the presence of chronic diseases in addition to IBD (p<0.001). 44.4% of participants did not report their use of these herbal products to health professionals. The use of herbal products decreased with increasing age (95% CI:0.946-0.999) and educational level (for bachelor 95% CI: 0.141-0.857, for postgraduate 95% CI: 0.178-0.711) and increased with increasing duration of diagnosis (95% CI:1.049-1.134). In addition, the use of herbal products was higher in people who had not had surgery related to IBD (95% CI:1.658-11.628) and who did not have comorbidities (95% CI:1.836-11.607).
Conclusions: Age, educational level, duration of disease, undergoing surgery related to IBD and having comorbidities are factors affecting the use of herbal products in patients with IBD. However, studies with larger sample sizes are needed to fully elucidate these relationships.Introducción: La colitis ulcerosa (CU) y la enfermedad de Crohn (EC), conocidas como enfermedades inflamatorias intestinales (EII), son enfermedades crónicas que afectan a la calidad de vida de las personas y cada vez son más frecuentes en todo el mundo. Este estudio pretende evaluar el uso de productos a base de plantas por adultos diagnosticados de EII en remisión e investigar los factores asociados al uso de productos a base de plantas.
Metodología: Este estudio se realizó con 425 participantes adultos de entre 18 y 65 años (hombres = 154, mujeres = 271) diagnosticados de EII (CU = 295, EC = 130) que fueron remitidos a las consultas externas de gastroenterología de dos hospitales universitarios. Los datos se recogieron mediante un cuestionario dividido en tres partes: sociodemográfica, relacionada con la enfermedad y uso de productos herbales.
Resultados: Las plantas medicinales más utilizadas fueron Zingiber officinale Roscoe (40,5 %), Curcuma longa L. (38,1 %) y Momordica charantia L. (24,2 %). Se observó una diferencia significativa en el uso de productos a base de plantas según la presencia de enfermedades crónicas, además de la EII (p<0,001). El 44,4 % de los participantes no informó a los profesionales sanitarios sobre el uso de estos productos. El uso de productos a base de plantas disminuyó al aumentar la edad (IC95%: 0,946-0,999) y el nivel educativo (para licenciados IC 95%: 0,141-0,857, para posgraduados IC95%: 0,178-0,711) y aumentó al aumentar la duración del diagnóstico (IC95%:1,049-1,134). Además, el uso de productos a base de plantas fue mayor en las personas que no se habían sometido a cirugía relacionada con la EII (IC95%: 1,658-11,628) y que no tenían comorbilidades (IC95%: 1,836-11,607).
Conclusiones: La edad, el nivel educativo, la duración de la enfermedad, haberse sometido a cirugía relacionada con la EII y tener comorbilidades son factores que afectan al uso de productos a base de plantas en estos pacientes. Sin embargo, se necesitan estudios con muestras de mayor tamaño para dilucidar plenamente estas relaciones
El uso de hierbas en pacientes con enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal en Türkiye: Un estudio transversal
Full text linkIntroduction: Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which are becoming increasingly common around the world, are chronic conditions that affect people's quality of life. This study aims to evaluate the use of herbal products by adults diagnosed with IBD in remission and to investigate the factors associated with the use of herbal products.
Methodology: This study was conducted on 425 adult participants aged 18-65 years (Males = 154, Females = 271) diagnosed with IBD (UC = 295, CD = 130) who were referred to the gastroenterology outpatient clinics of two university hospitals. Data were collected using a questionnaire with three parts: socio-demographic, disease-related, and use of herbal products.
Results: The most commonly used medicinal plants were Zingiber officinale Roscoe (40.5%), Curcuma longa L. (38.1%) and Momordica charantia L. (24.2%). There was a significant difference in the use of herbal products according to the presence of chronic diseases in addition to IBD (p<0.001). 44.4% of participants did not report their use of these herbal products to health professionals. The use of herbal products decreased with increasing age (95% CI:0.946-0.999) and educational level (for bachelor 95% CI: 0.141-0.857, for postgraduate 95% CI: 0.178-0.711) and increased with increasing duration of diagnosis (95% CI:1.049-1.134). In addition, the use of herbal products was higher in people who had not had surgery related to IBD (95% CI:1.658-11.628) and who did not have comorbidities (95% CI:1.836-11.607).
Conclusions: Age, educational level, duration of disease, undergoing surgery related to IBD and having comorbidities are factors affecting the use of herbal products in patients with IBD. However, studies with larger sample sizes are needed to fully elucidate these relationships.Introducción: La colitis ulcerosa (CU) y la enfermedad de Crohn (EC), conocidas como enfermedades inflamatorias intestinales (EII), son enfermedades crónicas que afectan a la calidad de vida de las personas y cada vez son más frecuentes en todo el mundo. Este estudio pretende evaluar el uso de productos a base de plantas por adultos diagnosticados de EII en remisión e investigar los factores asociados al uso de productos a base de plantas.
Metodología: Este estudio se realizó con 425 participantes adultos de entre 18 y 65 años (hombres = 154, mujeres = 271) diagnosticados de EII (CU = 295, EC = 130) que fueron remitidos a las consultas externas de gastroenterología de dos hospitales universitarios. Los datos se recogieron mediante un cuestionario dividido en tres partes: sociodemográfica, relacionada con la enfermedad y uso de productos herbales.
Resultados: Las plantas medicinales más utilizadas fueron Zingiber officinale Roscoe (40,5 %), Curcuma longa L. (38,1 %) y Momordica charantia L. (24,2 %). Se observó una diferencia significativa en el uso de productos a base de plantas según la presencia de enfermedades crónicas, además de la EII (p<0,001). El 44,4 % de los participantes no informó a los profesionales sanitarios sobre el uso de estos productos. El uso de productos a base de plantas disminuyó al aumentar la edad (IC95%: 0,946-0,999) y el nivel educativo (para licenciados IC 95%: 0,141-0,857, para posgraduados IC95%: 0,178-0,711) y aumentó al aumentar la duración del diagnóstico (IC95%:1,049-1,134). Además, el uso de productos a base de plantas fue mayor en las personas que no se habían sometido a cirugía relacionada con la EII (IC95%: 1,658-11,628) y que no tenían comorbilidades (IC95%: 1,836-11,607).
Conclusiones: La edad, el nivel educativo, la duración de la enfermedad, haberse sometido a cirugía relacionada con la EII y tener comorbilidades son factores que afectan al uso de productos a base de plantas en estos pacientes. Sin embargo, se necesitan estudios con muestras de mayor tamaño para dilucidar plenamente estas relaciones
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
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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