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Diastasi dei muscoli retti : analisi del fenomeno e ruolo dell'ostetrica nella prevenzione, diagnosi e trattamento
No full textIntroduction
Rectus abdominis diastasis (RAD) is a pathology that arises mainly after pregnancy, and it has been reported by 30% of women, within 12 months of having given birth. Even if it is mistakenly considered by many to be harmless and only aesthetic pathology, the consequences that the diastasis causes are significant clinical problems such as postural changes, urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, pelvic pain, disorders of digestion and the formation of one or more umbilical hernias.
For these reasons the training of health professionals is essential in such a way as to provide all women with adequate information during pregnancy, to be able to put in place some precautions to prevent the onset of this pathology.
Purposes
The first goal of this study is to investigate women’s knowledge of exercises and preventive measures to be implemented both during pregnancy and in post-partum.
At the same time we want to find the role of the midwife in the prevention, information and treatment of this pathology.
The second goal is to evaluate, in the women analized, the presence or absence of conditions that are identified by the literature as risk factors for the development of diastasis and related symptoms. The third goal is to find out how women have become aware of this pathology, who diagnosed it and what treatment was recommended to them.
Materials and methods
Sampling was not probabilistic, thanks to the identification of two blogs: “Diastasi Italia official group” and “Diastasi donna ODV”, to which women who suffer from RAD are registered and who reported problems the first or subsequent pregnancies. After that a questionnaire was presented to the women of both blogs, to be completed freely online thanks to a link linked to “Google moduli”.
Data collection took place between April and May 2018.
Results
The study sample was conducted on 382 Italian women between ages 21 and 57.
From the collected data it emerged that 98% of the women have, in their case history, at least one of the risk factors named in the literature, and only 2% don’t present them, and these 2% include only women with mild RAD (2-4 cm).
All the women in the study have one or more symptoms related to the RAD.
It emerged that 78% of the women discovered the existence of this pathology through personal information, only 22% were informed by a health professional, and among these only 15% were informed by a midwife. Also only 40% were diagnosed by helath professionals, 56% found out by self-diagnosis.
Only 3% have performed prevention exercises, and among these, noone have been recommended by a midwife and only 0,5% of the study partecipants were explained the importance of having a balanced diet to avoid excessive weight gain in pregnancy, considered a risk factor in the develpment of RAD.
Finally, as regards the women’s knowledge of the role of the midwife, only 37% claimed to know that this health professional deals with rehabilitation of the pelvic floor, prevention of diastasis and proposes exercises to improve the condition, and only 10% claimed to know that the midwife deals with treatment of scar after surgery.
Conclusions
Therefore there is a link between this study and the literature regarding the presence of risk factors and symptoms related to RAD.
The results show how poorly informed women are about this pathology during pregnancy, and how often health professionals are poorly trained to spot the signs and symptoms of RAD, and, therefore, are unable to prevent, diagnose and to propose an appropriate treatment.
Finally, the women’s knowledge about the role of the midwife in the rehabilitation of the pelvic floor, prevention of diastasis, exercises aimed at improving it and in the treatment of scar after surgery, proved to be very limited
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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