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Mental Health workers' coping strategies in dealing with continuous secondary trauma
No full textThis study explored the coping strategies of mental health workers (MHWs) who are dealing continuously with traumatised children (younger than 18) and their families/caregivers. A convenience sample was used to recruit MHWs (female, n = 9; and male, n = 1; age range 26 to 57) at Childline Gauteng. Visual and textual data were obtained by using the Mmogo-Method®, a visual data collection method. Textual data were analysed thematically and visual data were analysed using a six-step visual method. Findings revealed that intrapersonal coping is facilitated by awareness of self, challenges and achievements, and by retrospective reflection, utilisation of resources, flexibility, positive virtues and protection of professional and personal boundaries. Relational coping is mediated by the reciprocal unconditional acceptance of and by family members and a supportive network of friends. The organisational norm of care facilitates coping through formal and informal discussions. Coping with continuous trauma requires facilitation on different levels
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
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
Validity of Symptom Reporting Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
No full textObjective: Recent evidence of persistent reporting of symptoms after mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) has come under question, with the suggestion that participants may be over-reporting symptoms more generally. This study set out to determine the proportion of people reporting atypical symptoms and to explore the relationship between acute (1 month) atypical symptom reporting and perceptions of recovery and experience of typical symptoms following mTBI.
Methodology: Data was drawn from the longitudinal population-based Brain Injury Incidence and Outcomes New Zealand (NZ) in the Community (BIONIC) study that was conducted in the Hamilton and Waikato districts. Cases included patients who had experienced a traumatic brain injury between the 1 st March 2010 and 28th February 2011. Cases were identified from the ACC database, community healthcare services, such as general practitioners (GPs) and physiotherapists, hospital admissions and discharges, sports clubs, concussion clinics and self-referrals. Participants completed the Rivermead Post-Concussion Questionnaire (RPQ) assessment at one month (n = 261) and twelve months post-injury (n = 193), in addition to data on a series of distractor (atypical) symptoms. Typical symptoms generally relate to post-concussion symptoms, while atypical symptoms do not form part of a concussion clinical presentation. Characteristics of the sample were analysed and the proportion of participants reporting atypical and typical mTBI symptoms were explored at both timepoints. T-tests were used when data satisfied parametric assumptions; if not satisfied, the Chi square tests tested non-parametric equivalent statistics (for nominal/categorical variables). The significance level was set at p <0.05. A regression analysis determined whether increased atypical symptoms reported at one month predicted persistent symptoms and perceptions of recovery at twelve months.
Results: Data was available for n = 261 participants at one month and n = 193 at twelve months. Atypical symptoms were reportedly experienced by 25% of participants at one month and 16% of participants at twelve months. Atypical symptom reporting was higher in females than males. Sex, ethnicity, atypical symptoms and typical symptoms at one month following mTBI were significantly predictive of the one-year outcome, explaining 46% in the variance in typical post-concussion symptoms and 31 % of the variation in perceptions of recovery.
Conclusion: One in four people reported atypical symptoms in the acute phase (intense symptoms at one month) post-injury, which reduced over time (twelve months). However, the models did not explain all the variance in the outcome, and other factors are likely to influence outcomes from mTBI. Given links to symptom reporting and perceptions of recovery at twelve months post-injury, acute atypical symptom reporting could be a red flag to indicate those who may experience poorer long-term outcomes and require additional support to facilitate recovery
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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