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Supplemental Material, Appendix_Figure_1_and_Appendix_Supplemental_Table_1 - The Self-Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Inventory: Development and Psychometric Evaluation
No full textSupplemental Material, Appendix_Figure_1_and_Appendix_Supplemental_Table_1 for The Self-Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Inventory: Development and Psychometric Evaluation by Maria Matarese, Marco Clari, Maria Grazia De Marinis, Claudio Barbaranelli, Dhurata Ivziku, Michela Piredda and Barbara Riegel in Evaluation & the Health Professions</p
Igiene delle mani e teoria del comportamento pianificato: adattamento cross culturale e validazione linguistica della versione italiana dell’Hand Hygiene Questionnaire
No full textIntroduzione L’igiene delle mani, pur essendo la procedura principale per il controllo delle infezioni, sembra
avere un tasso di adesione scarso. Sono state sviluppate molte teorie per definire la natura e la relazione
dei fattori che influenzano alcuni comportamenti. La teoria del comportamento pianificato è stata utilizzata
in altri due paesi per identificare negli infermieri i predittori dell’intenzione a praticare l’igiene delle mani
(pratica innata e pratica elettiva) in ospedale, attraverso l’Hand Hygiene Questionnaire.
Obiettivo Descrivere il processo di validazione linguistico culturale dell’Hand Hygiene Questionnaire per
identificare negli infermieri, attraverso la teoria del comportamento pianificato, i predittori significativi
dell’igiene delle mani associata ai contatti elettivi (puliti) e innati (sporchi) in ospedale.
Materiali e metodi Studio metodologico di traduzione e validazione culturale. La traduzione e l’adattamento
culturale di tale strumento ha seguito le fasi del modello proposto dall’Organizzazione Mondiale della
Sanità. E’ stato effettuato uno studio pilota per valutare il questionario negli infermieri che hanno approvato
l’adattamento culturale. E’ stata seguita una validazione qualitativa e quantitativa di contenuto.
Risultati Tutte le fasi del processo di validazione linguistico culturale sono state realizzate in modo soddisfacente.
Conclusioni Il processo ha seguito le raccomandazioni presenti nella letteratura internazionale. La versione
finale è stata approvata dall’autrice dello strumento originale.Introduction Although the importance of hand hygiene on the control and reduction of infections is widely
internationally recognized, the rate of adherence to this practice by health professionals has proved to be
very low. Many theories have been developed to define the nature and relationship of factors that influence
some behaviors. The Theory of Planned Behavior was used in two others country to identify significant
predictors of hand hygiene associated with hospital elective and hospital inherent contacts among nurses,
through the Hand Hygiene Questionnaire.
Objective Culturally and linguistically validation in Italian language of the Hand Hygiene Questionnaire to
identify significant predictors of hand hygiene associated with hospital elective (clean) and hospital inherent
(dirty) contacts among nurses, through the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB).
Materials and methods Translation and cultural validation study. The translation and adaptation of this
instrument followed the phases of the model proposed by the World Health Organization. A pilot study was conducted to test the questionnaire in nurses who approved cultural adaptation. A qualitative and quantitative
content validity was performed.
Results All phases of the cultural-linguistic validation process was carried out in a satisfactory manner.
Conclusions The process meticulously followed the recommendations of the international literature. The
final version has been approved by the author of the original instrument
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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