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Responsible Dog Ownership: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of adults residing in a semi-urban Medical Officer of Health area in Sri Lanka
No full textIntroduction- Rabies is a 100% vaccine-preventable and 100% fatal zoonotic, viral illness. Dogs are the source of nearly all the deaths from rabies in Sri Lanka. Annually nearly 20-30 persons die due to human rabies and the health system provides post-exposure prophylaxis for 300,000 individuals in the country. One of the main strategies in the prevention of rabies in the country is the promotion of responsible dog ownership (RDO). This study was done with the aim of describing the knowledge, attitude, and practice on Responsible Dog Ownership and their associated factors among persons aged 20-59 years in a semi-urban Medical Officer of Health (MOH) area in Sri LankaMethod- A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out among a random sample of 340 participants, aged 20-59 years in the MOH area Maharagama, Sri Lanka by using probability proportionate to the population size cluster sampling technique. Data were collected by using a pre-tested interviewer-administered questionnaire by two trained pre intern doctors and analyzed using SPSS software.Results- Response rate was 94.7% (322/340). The mean age was 38.1 years (SD=11.2 years).Of the participants, 94% were Sinhalese (n=303): 87% Buddhists (n=280); 74.2% married (n=239); 64.6% employed (n=208); 82% lived in own house (n=264) with a median income of Rs. 38,000.00 (IQR=Rs. 38,000/=). Only 11.5% (n=37) were dog owners. Overall knowledge on Responsible Dog Ownership (RDO) was good among 69.3% (n=223) with: > 50% knew about rabies vaccine and breeding control but 95% on dog vaccination against rabies but 60% had practiced: immunization; de worming but < 40% had practiced breeding control. The factors associated with good knowledge on RDO: age 20-39 years (OR=1.7, 95% CI- 1.1 -2.8 ,p=0.01); being Sinhalese (OR=2.7, 95% CI- 1.01 -6.8, p=0.03); being Buddhists (OR=2.1, 95% CI- 1.01 -4.0, p=0.03), having higher education (OR=21.4, 95% CI- 10.2 -44.9, p<0.0001); having higher income (OR=3.5, 95% CI- 2.1 -5.8, p<0.001), being employed (OR=2.7, 95% CI- 1.6 -4.4, p<0.001) and owning dog (OR=18.9, 95% CI- 2.5 -139.7, p<0.001) .The factors associated with favorable attitudes on RDO: age 20-39 years (OR=2.6, 95% CI- 1.6 -4.3, p<0.001); being Sinhalese (OR=2.6, 95% CI- 1.03 -6.7, p=0.04);being Buddhists (OR=2.3, 95% CI- 1.2 -4.6, p=0.01); being unmarried (OR=2.5, 95% CI- 1.2 -5.2, p=0.01); having higher education (OR=1.7, 95% CI- 1.1 -2.9,p=0.02). Practices on RDO among dog owners: having a higher level of education was associated with hygienic disposal of dung (OR=12.8, 95% CI 2.1 -78.6, p<0.01) and expression of ownership (OR=8.1, 95%CI-1.7-38.6,p=0.01). Being employed was associated with measures taken to prevent pet dog becoming a public nuisance (OR=6.6, 95% CI 1.3-32.5, p=0.04).Conclusions and Recommendations: The majority of study participants had good knowledge, attitudes, and practices with regard to the prevention of Rabies. However, their knowledge, attitudes, and practices on other elements of RDO are not as good. Responsible Dog Ownership should be introduced as a regulation for the general public by the Ministry of Health in order to further reduce deaths due to Rabies in Sri Lanka .Keywords—Responsible Dog Ownership, Rabies, Sri Lank
Rabies And Treatment Following Dog Bites: Knowledge Among Adults Residing In A Semi-Urban Medical Officer Of Health Area In Sri Lanka
No full textIntroduction: Rabies is a zoonotic disease that is endemic in Sri Lanka and the main vector of human rabies is the dog. The county invests a huge portion of its annual health budget to prevent this deadly disease. The treatment following dog bite has an important place in the prevention of human rabies, which consists of the provision of first aid and Post Exposure Therapy (PET). The objective of the study was to describe knowledge on human rabies and treatment following dog bites (TFDB) and their associated factors among persons aged 20-59 years in a semiurban Medical Officer of Health area in Sri LankaMethod- A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out among a random sample of 340 participants, aged 20-59 years in a semi-urban Medical Officer of Health area, Sri Lanka by using probability proportionate to the population size cluster sampling technique. Data were collected by using a pre-tested interviewer-administered questionnaire by two trained pre intern doctors and analyzed using SPSS 22 software.Results- Response rate was 94.7% (322/340). The mean age was 38.1 years (SD=11.2 years).Of the participants, 94% were Sinhalese (n=303): 87% Buddhists (n=280); 74.2% married (n=239); 64.6% employed (n=208); 82% lived in own house (n=264) with a median income of Rs. 38,000.00 (IQR=Rs. 38,000/=). Only 11.5% (n=37) were dog owners.Overall knowledge on rabies was good in 64.9%, (n=209): 70.8% (n=228) knew the route of entry of virus but < 45% knew cat & bat are also reservoirs. The factors associated with good knowledge on rabies were Sinhala (OR=3.4, 95% CI- 1.3 -8.9,p=0.01); having higher level of education (OR=18.7, 95% CI- 9.7 -35.8 ,p<0.001), being employed (OR=2.3, 95% CI- 1.4 -3.6 p<0.001), having a higher income level (OR=4.8, 95% CI- 2.9 -7.9, p<0.001);owning dog (OR=2.7, 95% CI- 1.6 -4.4, p<0.001).Overall knowledge on treatment following dog bite was good in 61.2 %,(n=197):89.6%,(n=288) on first aid but < 30% knew the importance of noticing offending dog’s health, observability, and what to do if a dog is suspected to have rabies. The factors associated with knowledge on the treatment following dog bite were: ever-married(OR=1.7, 95% CI- 1.1 -3.2, p=0.02); having a higher level of education (OR=13.3, 95% CI- 7.5-23.5, p<0.001); having a higher level of monthly income (OR=3.0, 95% CI-1.9 -4.8, p<0.001); being employed (OR=2.2, 95% CI- 1.4 -3.5, p<0.001); owning a dog (OR=27.7, 95% CI-3.7 -205.0, p<0.001).Conclusions and Recommendations: The majority of the study participants had good overall knowledge of rabies and treatment following a dog bite. In general, knowledge on non-canine reservoirs of rabies and treatment following dog bites on specific events were deficient. There is a need to give holistic knowledge with regard to rabies as well as treatment following a dog bite to the general public.Keywords—rabies, treatment following dog bites, knowledge, Sri Lank
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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