20,393 research outputs found
A model to evaluate diabetes self-management programmes
No full textSelf-management has emerged as an approach to enhance quality of care for patients suffering from long term conditions, and to control costs of health services. So far, however, the effects of this approach as adopted by the Saudi healthcare system in the early 1990s remain unclear. Although current models define the concept of self-management, they do not provide a systematic development or an explanatory theory of how self management affects the outcomes of care. The objective of this research is to develop a framework applicable to the evaluation of self-management programmes. The evaluation model is built on patient-related intervention. The effectiveness of these interventions is determined by the levels of patient engagement and effective participation. Therefore, studying factors that influence patients‘ adherence to self-management activities is crucial to explain the outcomes of these interventions. We apply this framework to the case of diabetes mellitus, one of the most common chronic conditions in Saudi Arabia, causing huge burdens on patients and healthcare providers.A non-experimental retrospective cross-sectional survey research design has been employed to conduct this research using a self-administered questionnaire. Closed-ended questions were used to measure all study variables related to model construction. One open-ended question was used to investigate barriers to diabetes self-management. A non-probability convenient sample design was used to select diabetes centres participated in this study and a systematic approach for selecting patients in these centres. Research data were collected from five diabetes centres and clinics in the main five regions in Saudi Arabia. Quantitative data were analysed using simple, multiple and logistic regressions, whereas a directed content analysis approach was used to analyse qualitative data.The results of this study revealed that diabetes self-management improves clinical outcomes and reduces utilization of health services. The theoretical approaches underpinning self-management were based on established models from the field of health psychology. By investigating the effect of self-efficacy patients‘ beliefs, and locus of control on self-management, we found that these behavioural theories support the core assumptions of self-management. Self-efficacy was the most significant predictor of self-management followed by patient beliefs. Social support, effective communication between patients and health providers in addition to diabetes knowledge were all important factors to positively influence diabetes self-management. However a new construct, misconception of fatalism from the Islamic point of view, was found to play a negative role in diabetes management. The research model also suggests that diabetes knowledge was influenced by several factors. Education level was the most significant predictor of diabetes knowledge followed by age and diabetes education. It was also found that group education improves diabetes knowledge more than individual education.This model is a valid tool that could be used to evaluate self-management programmes in other chronic diseases. It can be used as a decision making supporting tool; to identify different components of self-management interventions, and to compare outcomes of programmes. It can also be used to group patients into different categories to facilitate providing tailored services suitable for each group. It could assist health providers to plan new interventions or to refine existing ones by allocating efforts and financial resources toward the most influential factors that affect patients‘ adherence to self-management activities.<br/
Abdullah Topaloğlu ile sözlü tarih görüşmesi
No full textBu görüşme, Genç Hayat Vakfı tarafından, Sokağımdan Tarih Yazıyorum başlığı altında gerçekleştirilmiştir. Görüşmeler, İstanbul'un, Beyoğlu, Fatih, Eyüp, Kağıthane, Şişli, Maltepe, Üsküdar, Tuzla, Beykoz ve Sarıyer ilçelerinde yaşayan ve bu ilçelerdeki ortaöğretim kurumlarında eğitim gören lise öğrencileri tarafından yapılmıştır. Bu proje kapsamında, Üsküdar ilçesinde yapılan görüşmelerin sayısı 12'dir.1955 yılında İstanbul ilinin Üsküdar ilçesine bağlı Kuzguncuk semtinde doğan Abdullah Topaloğlu’nun ailesi Haliç’ten Beylerbeyi’ne ve daha sonra da Kuzguncuk’a taşınır. Yahudiler ve Rumlarla aynı mahallede, aynı sokakta oturduklarını, beraber büyüdüklerini ve beraber oynadıklarını söyler. O yıllarda gayrimüslimlerin değil, Müslümanların azınlıkta olduğunu, 6- 7 Eylül Olayları’nın ilçeye hiçbir şekilde yansımadığını ve herkesin bir diğerine saygı gösterdiğini ifade eder. Semtteki eğlence hayatına da değinen Topaloğlu, sinemaya gittiklerini ve arkadaşlarıyla pastanede buluştuklarını anlatır. Son olarak ilçenin meczuplarından bahseder.Genç Hayat VakfıOkçu, B., Bekçi, M., Gezer, F., Akpınar, E., Dağcı, İ.. "Amigo'yu, Duduka'yı tanımayan Kuzguncuklu değildir." Sokağımdan Tarih Yazıyorum. 06 Üsküdar
Interview with Sofie Abdullah
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، تتحدث الكاتبه صوفى عبد الله عن أسرار مهنة الكتابة.In this interview, Sofie Abdullah, a well-known Egyptian author, discusses the intricacies of the writing industry
Citizens, not subjects: Debunking the Sectarian Narrative of Bahrain’s Pro-Democracy Movement
No full textAbdullah Movüd ile sözlü tarih görüşmesi
No full textBu görüşme, Genç Hayat Vakfı tarafından, Sokağımdan Tarih Yazıyorum başlığı altında gerçekleştirilmiştir. Görüşmeler, İstanbul'un, Beyoğlu, Fatih, Eyüp, Kağıthane, Şişli, Maltepe, Üsküdar, Tuzla, Beykoz ve Sarıyer ilçelerinde yaşayan ve bu ilçelerdeki ortaöğretim kurumlarında eğitim gören lise öğrencileri tarafından yapılmıştır. Bu proje kapsamında, Beyoğlu ilçesinde yapılan görüşmelerin sayısı 19'dur.1942 yılında İstanbul ilinin Beyoğlu ilçesine bağlı Gümüşsuyu semtinde doğan Abdullah Movüd, doğduğundan beri Taksim’de yaşamaktadır. Çocukluğu, Hacı Salih Lokantası’nın sahibi olan babasının dükkanında çalışarak geçer. Beyoğlu’nun değişimine tanıklık etmiş biri olarak çocukluğundaki İstanbul’u anlatır. İstiklal Caddesi’nde yürüyen insanların birbirlerine selam vermeden geçmediğini söyler. İstanbul’un Fatih, Eminönü, Sirkeci ve Üsküdar’dan ibaret olduğundan bahseder. Tophane’de kurulan Amerikan Pazarı’nda, gurbetçilerin, Türkiye’de bulunmayan ürün ve gıda malzemelerini sattığını ancak bu pazarın Bülent Ecevit zamanında kaldırıldığını söyler. Denize girmek için Florya’ya gittikleri dönemlerde denizin, kumları sayılacak kadar temiz olduğunu ifade eden Movüd, çocukluk döneminde yaygın olan hamam kültüründen de bahseder.Genç Hayat VakfıBatman, M., Doğan, H., Saluğ, D., Aras, F., Alpakut U..“Kabataş'ta denize baktığın zaman kumları sayabilirdin.”. Sokağımdan Tarih Yazıyorum. 01 Beyoğlu
Interview with Abdullah El Tayib
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، يتحدث الأديب والناقد والشاعر السوداني عبد الله الطيب عن مؤلفاته في النقد والقصص الشعبية ودواوينه الشعريه.In this interview, Sudanese author, intellectual, and poet Abdullah El Tayib discusses his collections of poetry, well-known stories, and critical writings
Interview with Abdullah Al-Baradouni
No full textلقاء مع الشاعر اليمنى عبد الله البرادوني للتكلم عن مكانة الشعر اليوم. أجرى اللقاء إبراهيم عابدين.An interview with Yemeni author and poet Abdullah Al-Baradouni about the role of poetry in modern times. Interview conducted by Ibrahim Abdeen
Task-Guided and Semantic-Aware Ranking for Academic Author-Paper Correlation Inference
No full textWe study the problem of author-paper correlation inference in big scholarly data, which is to effectively infer potential correlated works for researchers using historical records. Unlike supervised learning algorithms that predict relevance score of author-paper pair via time and memory consuming feature engineering, network embedding methods automatically learn nodes' representations that can be further used to infer author-paper correlation. However, most current models suffer from two limitations: (1) they produce general purpose embeddings that are independent of the specific task; (2) they are usually based on network structure but out of content semantic awareness. To address these drawbacks, we propose a task-guided and semantic-aware ranking model. First, the historical interactions among all correlated author-paper pairs are formulated as a pairwise ranking loss. Next, the paper's semantic embedding encoded by gated recurrent neural network, together with the author's latent feature is used to score each author-paper pair in ranking loss. Finally, a heterogeneous relations integrative learning module is designed to further augment the model. The evaluation results of extensive experiments on the well known AMiner dataset demonstrate that the proposed model reaches significant better performance, comparing to a number of baselines.We would like to thank Yuxiao Dong for suggestions. This work is supported by the Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-09-2-0053 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant IIS-1447795. This work is partially supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Dynamic augmentation of SCORM pre-authored course materials with adaptive links to supplementary resources
No full textIn a SCORM compliant courseware, content and the pedagogic approach to be taken are predefined by the course author. As a consequence, users are unable to learn according to their preferences, and implicitly they will all encounter the same learning experience. Recent attempts to personalise learning in SCORM often resulted in either modifying or substituting SCORM specification elements. Nonetheless, SCORM is a widely-used solution to interoperability problems. For this reason, this work focuses on supplementing SCORM rather than redefining it. This is accomplished by dynamically associating each pre-authored learning material in a SCORM package with adaptive links to relevant supplementary resources upon delivery. As a result, we have developed a Personalised Link Service (PLS) to deliver these links into user’s SCORM-compliant learning environment. In this paper, we present the design of a PLS authoring architecture which enables the automatic generation of a concept map from a SCORM package and consequently links to alternative learning resources, and a PLS run-time service oriented architecture which delivers these alternative resources, alongside the SCORM defined resources, according to a user model. We demonstrate the feasibility of our architecture by implementing a service to support a simple notion of a user model (Preferred Learning style)
Kajian Sastra Perjalanan dalam Hikayat Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Mekah Karya Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi
No full textThis research is aimed to identify and to reveal a hikayat as classic travel literature of Indonesia by the travel writing theory of Carl Thompson. To gain those purposes, this research used literary criticism and descriptive-analytic methods. The object of this study is Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Mekah by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi (1854), focusing on the six elements of travel writing by Carl Thompson’s approach based on the hikayat. This study shows that the hikayat contains six elements of travel writing. Those are self, other, movement, space, encounter, and writing. Abdullah as a sailor puts himself in his hikayat as the main character by using “sahaya” and “aku” to articulate “self” in his hikayat. The “self” during travel met new and foreign things that the author had never seen before. He drew and expressed his point of view, feeling, and observation of all the encounters that he had met during sailing in to hikayat.Keywords: Carl Thompson, hikayat, travel writin
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