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An exploration of factors influencing parents from minoritized ethnic backgrounds views and experiences of accessing perinatal mental health services in the UK
No full textThe first chapter is a systematic review exploring barriers to accessing perinatal mental health services for parents from Minoritized Ethnic Backgrounds in the UK. Searches were conducted on three databases and six studies met the inclusion criteria. A thematic synthesis was performed on the data and seven overarching themes were identified. The findings suggest that parents from Minoritized ethnic backgrounds experience barriers across various levels, particularly an individual level and structural level. Education and training are needed for both patients and professionals in understanding perinatal mental health, the impact of culture and ethnicity on this, and best practice in attending to cultural differences to reduce barriers to accessing perinatal mental health services. The second chapter is an empirical paper exploring Black parents’ views on accessing perinatal and/or maternal mental health services. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with sixteen parents; with one interview being conducted with a married couple. The data was analysed using thematic analysis and four overarching themes were identified. Black parents’ weigh up a range of factors when considering accessing perinatal mental health services or not, this can be influenced by views and interactions with family and friends, as well as interactions with healthcare professionals, both of which have positive and negative elements. Greater collaboration between the Black community and healthcare professionals is needed, to identify how the needs of Black parents; in the context of perinatal mental health, can be met in a culturally safe and sensitive way in perinatal mental health services
The experiences of Sleep, Mood and Dissociation in Non-Epileptic Seizures.
Full text linkIntroduction: Non-epileptic seizures (NES) refer to seizures and involuntary movements that look like epilepsy but are of unclear aetiology. It has been suggested that a range of psychological factors are important in the development of NES. Recent research has suggested impaired sleep might be a maintaining factor for NES, with some suggesting that sleep may influence seizures via its influence on dissociation. Understanding sleep in NES is important because if poor sleep is a key feature of NES, then treatments, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia, that readily improve sleep in physical and mental health problems, may be worthy of trial in NES. I aimed to explore whether those with NES experienced more subjective or objective impaired sleep, whether this was linked to next day functioning, and if possible, to the occurrence of seizures.
Methods: A control group without seizure disorders (N = 20) and a NES sample (N=17) completed baseline questionnaires on sleep, dissociation, anxiety and depression and provided demographic information. Then for 6 consecutive nights wore an Actiwatch activity monitor and completed a daily sleep diary and daily measures of mood and dissociation. The NES sample was also asked to provide seizure frequency details at baseline and daily throughout the study period.
Results: Analysis using independent sample t-tests and multi-level modelling suggests that those in the NES group report subjectively and experience objectively poorer sleep. No sleep variables from the preceding night’s sleep affected next day mood and dissociation or next day seizure frequency. However, the sample was underpowered for this analysis.
Conclusion: Preliminary outcomes show that impaired sleep (both objective and subjective) is a feature of NES and that this could have clinical implications. However, future research with larger samples is required to explore whether sleep might directly influence seizure occurrence, dissociation and mood
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
(Un)Safe spaces: A thematic analysis of global majority trainees’ experience of a safe space group in clinical psychology training
Full text linkClinical psychology is traditionally a profession that is dominated by White, socioeconomically middle-class women. It took worldwide protests, campaigns, and initiatives following the murder of George Floyd to convince the field of psychology to finally acknowledge and admit its historic and present role in the reproduction of institutional racism. As part of this, Health Education England developed an anti-racism action plan for all doctoral clinical psychology training organisations to prioritise addressing and redressing inequality, inequity, and oppression within the field. As one initiative, a Safe Space for global majority trainee clinical psychologists was developed on a clinical psychology training programme to provide these trainees a ‘safe’ community of support in an unsafe profession. Using thematic analysis, this study explores how global majority trainees experience the Safe Space as a feature of their clinical psychology training. Findings demonstrate the difficult, racialised experiences of these trainees, but also the importance of having groups like the Safe Space to create a sense of belonging and to provide material support and practices that enable them to navigate and challenge an oppressive training environment. It raises some questions for clinical psychology training programmes in how they are currently supporting marginalised groups, and the steps being taken to dismantle Whiteness
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
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