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The effect of motivational interviewing technique on social anxiety and quality of life of adolescents with epilepsy
No full textBackground and objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of motivational interviewing on social anxiety and quality of life of adolescents with epilepsy. Methods: The study was conducted with 72 children aged 12–15 years who met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate in the study. Data were collected using the ‘‘Personal Information Form’’, ‘‘Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents’’, ‘‘General Child Quality of Life Scale’’ and ‘‘KINDL Epilepsy Quality of Life Module for Children’’. The group that received motivational interviewing formed the interview group (n = 36), and the group that continued routine monitoring formed the control group (n = 36). The interview group received 7 sessions of motivational interviewing. Results: Social anxiety of adolescents with epilepsy in the motivational interview group, which was high before the interview, decreased significantly after the interview and 1 month after the end of the interview (p < 0.001). In the control group, social anxiety increased significantly after the interview (p < 0.001). The quality of life of adolescents with epilepsy in the motivational interview group, which was low before the interview, increased significantly after the interview and 1 month after the end of the interview (p < 0.001). A significant difference was observed in the total scores of the KINDL Epilepsy Quality of Life Module for adolescents in the control group (p = 0.004). Conclusion: The results of our study show that motivational interviewing is effective in reducing social anxiety and improving the quality of life of adolescents with epilepsy. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved
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
The effect of vibrating cold application and puppet use on pain and fear during phlebotomy in children: A randomized controlled study
No full textBackground: Non-pharmacological methods are often used as a creative strategy to reduce pain and fear in children during a painful procedure such as phlebotomy.Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of Bee Buzzy and puppet use on pain and fear during phlebotomy in children.Methods: This randomized controlled study was conducted in the pediatric phlebotomy unit of a university hospital. The CONSORT checklist was used in this study. The sample of 3-6 years children (n = 105) was divided into groups by block randomization. Children's pain and fear scores were evaluated with the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale and Children's Fear Scale by the parents and the nurse who attempted phlebotomy during phlebotomy.Results: A statistically significant difference was found between the Bee Buzzy and puppet and Bee Buzzy and control groups in pain scores (p < .05). Pain scores were lower in the Bee Buzzy group than in the puppet and control groups. A statistical difference was found between Bee Buzzy and the control group or puppet and control group according to all fear scores (p < .05). Fear scores were lower in the Bee Buzzy and puppet group (p < .05).Conclusions: The results show that the use of Bee Buzzy during phlebotomy has a pain-relieving effect, and the use of Bee Buzzy and puppet has an anti-fear effect in 3-6-year-old children.(c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
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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