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Movement awareness and communication in patient transfer : an educational intervention
No full textBackground: This thesis addresses patient transfer, i.e., assisting the physical movement of patients with disabilities. Patient transfer is the primary cause of work-related disorders in healthcare providers. It has mainly been viewed as a physical work task, although the providers' own movement awareness and communication skills may be as important to support the patient to mobilise remaining resources. In response to this, Natural Mobility has been developed as an experiential educational method in patient transfer, inspired by physiotherapists' tacit knowledge. The aim of the education is to create a learning environment where healthcare providers can train body and movement awareness and communication skills to be able to guide the patient to move independently.Aim: The overall aim of the thesis was to explore and evaluate healthcare providers´ changes in patient transfer after participation in Natural Mobility regarding type and number of changes and the sustainability of the changes.Methods: In total, 462 healthcare providers from health facilities (nursing homes, hospitals) in different municipalities and county councils in Sweden were recruited voluntarily to the studies. The intervention consisted of a course in Natural Mobility. Study I (n=212), used a pre-post design; Study II (n=20) was an interview study, and in Study III (n=250) and IV (n=192) a quasi-experimental pre-post design with control groups was used. Outcome was measured with both quantitative (questionnaires) and qualitative (interviews, weekly notes) methods.Results: About two thirds (68%) of the providers had changed something in their transfer habit after a year. They also reported less strain and higher work satisfaction (Study I). The reasons for changes seemed to be related to whether the provider focused the patient, their own body or the communication with the patient (Study II). Providers' perceived strain and reported disorders decreased one year after the education, while their movement awareness increased, and they gave more detailed instructions (Study III). The communication mode with the patient, changed in some providers from a physical to a more verbal mode. The providers described the patients performance instead of their own (Study IV). This was in line with the course content.Conclusion: Participation in training in patient transfer according to the Natural Mobility method can enable some healthcare providers to increase their movement awareness and communication skills to support patients' independent movements during transfer, and thereby also reduce physical strain and disorders. More research is needed to fully understand the role of communication in patient transfer and how training can be optimised.List of scientific papersI. Kindblom-Rising K, Wahlström R, Stenström CH (2002). Effects of staff training in Natural Mobility: A long-term follow-up. Advances in Physiotherapy. 4: 136-44.II. Kindblom-Rising K, Wahlström R, Ekman SL (2007). Nursing staffs perception of changes in patient transfer habits after a course - a phenomenological-hermeneutic study. Ergonomics. 50(7): 1017-25. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17510820III. Kindblom-Rising K, Wahlström R, Nilsson-Wikmar L, Buer N (2009). Nursing staffs movement awareness, attitudes and reported behaviour in patient transfer before and after an educational intervention. [Submitted]IV. Kindblom-Rising K, Wahlström R, Sirkka-Liisa Ekman, Buer N, Nilsson-Wikmar L (2009). Nursing staffs communication modes in patient transfer before and after an educational intervention. [Manuscript]</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Author Rights and Scholarly Publishing
No full textOriginally posted at
http://blog.library.gsu.edu/2014/10/24/author-rights-and-scholarly-publishing/</p
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
No full textThe authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
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