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"What I really needed was the truth". Exploring the information needs of people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
No full textBackgroundUnited Kingdom guidelines indicate individuals with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) require information and education to support self management. This qualitative study explored the specific information requirements of patients with CRPS and provides insight into how health professionals can best provide this.MethodsFollowing informed consent, eight semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with adults living with CRPS. Participants were asked about their experience of receiving information since diagnosis and what information they would prefer to receive. Interviews were transcribed and data analysed using thematic analysis.ResultsTwo themes related to the individuals’ experience of receiving information; ‘Facing the unknown’ describes how the participants reported little information was available and the impact of this. ‘The need to be an expert’ describes how they needed to be proactive to seek this information themselves. Three themes related to what information the individual would choose to receive; ‘Seeking the truth’ describes the need for knowledge, in particular accurate, honest information. ‘The shared experience’ describes the positive and negative aspects of sharing information with others experiencing CRPS. ‘Access to expertise’ describes the need for access to reliable information, resources and expertise.ConclusionThe reported lack of information resulted in a struggle for participants to understand their condition, access professional expertise and appropriate treatments. Health professionals require access to accurate information in order to share this with individuals with CRPS in a timely manner. Easily accessible and high quality patient resources to facilitate early referral for expertise are required. A central resource to identify local expertise would be valuable.<br/
"What I really needed was the truth": exploring the information needs of people with CRPS
No full textExploring the information needs of people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. The research study asked people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) what type of information about the condition they would like to receive and how they would like to get this information. People with CRPS need information to help manage the condition however little research has looked at exactly what information is needed. This research study aimed to find out what type of information is needed and how health professionals can best provide this.Eight adults with CRPS took part in the study. They were all living in the UK. Telephone interviews took place following informed consent. The participants were asked about their experience of receiving information since diagnosis and what information they would like to receive. They were also asked how they would like to receive this information for example, via the internet or paper leaflets. The interviews were then studied and the researcher identified what particular information was wanted. This was then listed in a questionnaire which was sent to all eight participants, asking what information in the list they considered to be the most important to receive and in what form.The research study showed how the participants felt there was very little information available to them about CRPS. This meant that is was difficult to get help from experts in the condition. They described how they frequently had to find out information about CRPS themselves and often needed to take this information to health professionals who were not familiar with CRPS. The participants mostly used the internet to find out information about CRPS but this information was often confusing and difficult to find. They described wanting accurate, honest information about CRPS and the possible outcome of having the condition. They felt this would help them approach treatment in the right way. Talking to others with CRPS was described as sometimes being helpful but could also cause fear for the future. Being able to access reliable information was important and they would like to get this from health professionals directly. There was also a need for information on how to access specialists in CRPS.<br/
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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