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Assessment of a group intervention to facilitate diagnosis disclosure and to reduce self-stigma of people with mood disorders, based on the international program Honest Open Proud - HOP
No full textO estigma é uma construção multifatorial. É uma marca que atribui ao seu portador uma condição desvalorizada em relação aos demais membros da sociedade. Esse processo tem consequências danosas na vida da pessoa, afetando diferentes dimensões e também criando um dilema sobre revelar ou não seu diagnóstico. O programa Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) é um instrumento que permite e incentiva o diálogo sobre questões importantes relacionadas com este conflito. O objetivo do estudo é identificar em um grupo de pacientes com diagnóstico de transtorno do humor se a intervenção HOP permite maior flexibilidade para expor socialmente seu diagnóstico, além de reduzir o estresse relacionado ao seu sigilo e melhorar a autonomia. Neste ensaio clínico randomizado controlado, 61 indivíduos com diagnóstico de transtorno do humor, 31 com depressão unipolar e 30 com transtorno bipolar foram selecionados. Para avaliar a eficácia do programa, uma avaliação em 3 etapas foi empregada (T0, T1 e T2) para abordar aspectos relacionados ao estigma, autoestigma e pontos relevantes ao tema, como qualidade de vida e estresse relacionado ao estigma. Entre os instrumentos mais relevantes usados estavam: Internalized Stigma in Mental ILLness Scale - ISMI -29 items (Ritcher et al., 2003) / Doença mental e inventário de estigma internalizado (Soares, RG et al., 2015); Avaliação cognitiva do estigma como estressor - COGAPP - 8 itens (Rüsch et al., 2009); Coming Out with Mental Illness Scale - COMIS - 43 itens (Corrigan et al., 2010) e Authentity Scale - Authenticity Scale -12 items (Wood et al., 2008). Na análise estatística foram utilizados modelos de efeitos mistos (LMM - Linear Mixed Model), considerando a interação tripla entre diagnóstico, tratamento e tempo. As intervenções (HOP e psicoeducacional - controle) demonstraram impacto positivo no estresse do estigma para todos os sujeitos, principalmente considerando o grupo Depressão, que ao longo do tempo apresentou melhora nos escores relacionados ao enfrentamento do estresse. No grupo HOP / Depressão, os escores apresentaram maiores alterações relacionadas à redução do estresse diante do preconceito. Em relação ao dilema em revelar ou não o transtorno mental, não houve mudanças significativas, uma vez que era grande o número de sujeitos que já haviam revelado seu diagnóstico. Quanto ao autoestigma, observou-se que os participantes do grupo Depressão tenderam a apresentar mais estigma internalizado sobre transtornos mentais do que os participantes do grupo Bipolar. Em relação à autenticidade, o programa HOP possibilitou a reflexão do participante sobre as formas de lidar com as demandas sociais. Vale ressaltar a importância de novos estudos. Ressaltamos que o programa HOP tem se mostrado uma intervenção que pode trazer benefícios aos seus usuários, sendo uma opção potencial em instituições públicas de saúde, por exemploStigma is a multifactorial construct. It is a mark which attributes its carrier a devalued condition in relation to other members of society. This process has harmful consequences in the persons life, affecting different dimensions as well as creating a dilemma about whether to reveal or not their diagnosis. The Honest, Open, Proud (HOP) program is an instrument that allows and encourages the dialogue on important issues regarding this conflict. The aim of the study is to identify in a group of patients diagnosed with a mood disorder whether the HOP intervention allows for greater flexibility in terms of socially exposing their diagnosisin addition to reducing the stress related to its secrecy and improving autonomy. In this randomized controlled clinical trial, 61 subjects diagnosed with mood disorder, 31 with unipolar depression, and 30 with bipolar disorder were selected. To assess the program efficacy, a 3- step assessment was employed (T0, T1 and T2) to address aspects related to stigma, self-stigma, and points relevant to the topic, such as quality of life and stigma-related stress. Among the most relevant instruments used were: Internalized Stigma inMental ILLness Scale ISMI -29 items (Ritcher et al., 2003)/ Mental illness and internalized stigma inventory (Soares, RG et al., 2015); Cognitive appraisal of stigma as a stressor - COGAPP - 8 items (Rüsch et al., 2009); Coming Out with Mental Illness Scale - COMIS - 43 items (Corrigan et al., 2010) and Authentity Scale - Authenticity Scale -12 items (Wood et al., 2008). In the statistical analysis mixed effects models were used (LMM Linear Mixed Model), considering the triple interaction between diagnosis, treatment, and time. The interventions (HOP and psychoeducationalcontrol) demonstrated a positive impact on stigma stress for all subjects, especially considering the Depression group, which over time showed improvement in the scores related to coping with stress. In the HOP/Depression group, scores showed greater changes related to the reduction of stress in the face of prejudice. Regarding the dilemma about disclosing the mental disorder or not, it did not show significant changes since the number of subjects who had already disclosed their diagnosis was large. As for self-stigma, it was observed that participants in the Depression group tended to have more internalized stigma about mental disorders than participants in the Bipolar group. Regarding authenticity, the HOP program allowed for the participants reflection on ways of dealing with the social demands. It is worth emphasizing the importance of further studies. We emphasize that the HOP program has proven to be an intervention that can bring benefits their users, being a potential option in public health institutions, for instanc
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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