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Psychological Distress and Influencing Factors in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study
No full textPurpose: Cancer diagnosis is associated with psychological distress, which often leads to a significant reduction in adaptation and quality of life. This study aimed to identify the prevalence and related factors of psychological distress in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Methods: The study included 138 women scheduled for surgery or neoadjuvant chemotherapy following a recent breast cancer diagnosis at a university hospital in Korea. Psychological distress was assessed using the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Distress Thermometer and problem lists. Data collection occurred from November 1, 2021, to November 30, 2022. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were utilized for data analysis. Results: The average age of the participants was 51.72 years. Among the 138 participants, 67.4% (n=93) reported moderate to severe levels of psychological distress. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified financial burden (Odds Ratio [OR]=4.32), fears (OR=5.35), and nervousness (OR=5.50) as predictors of moderate to severe psychological distress. Conclusion: Approximately two-thirds of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients experienced significant psychological distress. Nervousness, fears, and financial burden were significant factors influencing this distress. Therefore, management of psychological distress should be implemented for patients experiencing financial burdens or emotional problems, such as nervousness and fear, from the time of diagnosis
Effects of a mobile health coaching intervention on symptom experience, self-management, and quality of life in breast cancer survivors: A quasi-experimental study
No full textBACKGROUND: Patients diagnosed with breast cancer in South Korea have a longer post-diagnosis survival period compared to those in the United States and Europe. Therefore, it is essential to establish an effective posttreatment care system to enhance their quality of life (QOL). This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile health coaching intervention designed to improve symptom experience, self-management, and QOL in patients with breast cancer following the active phase of their treatment. METHODS: This study was a quasi-experimental, pre-post design conducted with breast cancer patients receiving treatment at a tertiary general hospital in Korea from July 2021 to June 2022. Participants were sequentially assigned to the control and intervention groups. Those in the intervention group participated in a 12-week mobile health coaching intervention comprising education sessions, peer support groups, and recording a health diary. The outcome variables were symptom experience, self-management, and QOL. Data were collected at baseline (T0), after the intervention (T1), and 3 months after the intervention (T2) and compared using repeated analysis of variance. RESULTS: Seventy-four participants (mean age 46.93 years) who had completed the active phase of cancer treatment were included. The intervention group showed a significant decrease in symptom experience, from 1.57 +/- 0.46 (T0) to 1.03 +/- 0.46 (T1) (P = .006), and a decrease in psychological symptoms from 1.71 +/- 0.93 (T0) to 1.66 +/- 0.69 (T2) (P = .049). Self-management scores significantly increased from 74.43 +/- 10.72 (T0) to 76.90 +/- 11.99 (T2) (P = .028). QOL improved from 95.83 +/- 18.62 (T0) to 96.40 +/- 15.35 (T2) (P = .015), and emotional well-being increased from 17.42 +/- 4.91 (T0) to 17.50 +/- 3.63 (T2) (P < .001), with all showing significant group x time interactions. CONCLUSIONS: The 12-week mobile health coaching program significantly reduced symptoms, improved self-management, and enhanced overall QOL and emotional well-being in breast cancer survivors who had completed primary treatment. These findings highlight the program's potential to support posttreatment recovery. Further research is needed to assess its long-term effects across diverse patient populations and cancer types to validate its broader effectiveness
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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