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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurses regarding obesity in private healthcare institutions in Oshana region, Namibia
Full text linkThesis (MNur)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.ENGLISH SUMMARY: Background: The prevalence of obesity has been steeply rising both in developed and developing countries, regardless of the attention which is being channelled towards it. Since this increase in obesity rate is leading to an increase in morbidity rate, new innovative treatments and care delivery strategies are needed. Nurses across the globe need to be equipped with strategies on how to address this growing health problem. The aim of study was to determine the levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of nurses regarding obesity in private healthcare institutions in the Oshana region, Namibia. Objectives: The objectives were to measure the levels of knowledge, attitude, and practices of nurses; to determine if there was an association between nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and practice scores; if there was an association between knowledge levels and their socio-demographic characteristics; and to determine strategies nurses’ thought might improve their knowledge, attitudes, and practices, regarding obesity at private healthcare institutions in Oshana region, Namibia. Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional design was used for the study. A proportional stratified random sampling method was used to select 250 participants for the study. The data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. SPSS version 27 was used to analyse the data. Pearson’s correlation test, Chi-square tests and logistic regression were used to determine associations between knowledge level and other variables. Results: The participants’ response rate was 100%. More than a third of the participants had good knowledge (n=97; 39%), more than two-fifths had a good attitude (n=112; 44.8%) and more than a third had good practices (n=96; 38.4%). There was a statistically significant strong positive correlation between knowledge and attitude scores, knowledge and practice scores and attitude and practice scores (r=0.812, r=0.812 and r=0.834, respectively). Chi-square tests showed statistically significant associations between knowledge level and age, occupation, and educational level (p<0.01). Age
groups 20-25 years and 26-30 years were less likely to have good knowledge compared to the age group 46-45 years (crude odds ratio (OR) = 0.31, 95% CI [0.12 – 0.79] and OR = 0.37, 95% CI [0.14 – 0.92], respectively). Enrolled nurses were less likely to have good knowledge compared to nurse managers (OR = 0.15, 95% CI [0.06 – 0.41]). Participants with diplomas were less likely to have good knowledge compared to those with masters and doctorate degrees (OR = 0.11, 95% CI [0.03 – 0.43]). More than 70% of the participants strongly agreed knowing their BMI, that their experience in treating obese patients and their current knowledge of obesity might improve their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding obesity. Furthermore, more than 70% of the participants strongly agreed training on obesity and rewarding nurses who treat obese patients appropriately might improve their knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding obesity. Conclusion: The levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding obesity among nurses were low. It was, therefore, recommended that the institutions should introduce obesity training and obesity mentorship programmes for their nurses, as well as offering rewards to nurses who appropriately manage obese patients.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Agtergrond: Die voorkoms van vetsug het skerp toegeneem in beide ontwikkelde en ontwikkelende lande, ongeag die aandag wat daarheen gekanaliseer word. Aangesien hierdie
toename in vetsugsyfer lei tot 'n toename in die morbiditeitskoers, is nuwe innoverende behandelings en sorglewerings strategiee nodig. Verpleegsters regoor die wereld moet toegerus word met strategiee om hierdie groeiende gesondheidsprobleem aan te spreek. Hierdie studie het dus ten doel gehad om die vlakke van kennis, houdings en praktyke van verpleegsters rakende vetsug in private gesondheidsorginstellings in die Oshana-streek, Namibie, te bepaal. Doelwitte: Die doelwitte was om die vlakke van kennis, houding en praktyke van verpleegsters te meet; om te bepaal of daar 'n verband was tussen verpleegsters se kennis, houding en praktyk tellings; om te bepaal of daar 'n verband was tussen kennisvlakke en hul sosio-demografiese kenmerke; en om strategiee te bepaal wat verpleegsters se denke hul kennis, houdings en praktyke ten opsigte van vetsug by private gesondheidsorginstellings in Oshana-streek, Namibie, kan verbeter. Metodes: Die studie het 'n kwantitatiewe deursnee-ontwerp gebruik. ’n Proporsionele
gestratifiseerde ewekansige steekproefmetode is gebruik om 250 deelnemers vir die studie te selekteer. Die data is ingesamel met behulp van 'n self-geadministreerde vraelys. SPSS weergawe 27 is gebruik om die data te ontleed. Pearson se korrelasietoets, Chi-kwadraattoetse en logistiese regressie is gebruik om assosiasies tussen kennisvlak en ander veranderlikes te bepaal. Resultate: Die deelnemers se responskoers was 100%. Meer as 'n derde van die deelnemers het goeie kennis gehad (n=97; 39%), meer as twee vyfdes het 'n goeie houding gehad (n=112; 44.8%), en meer as 'n derde het goeie praktyke gehad (n= 96; 38,4%). Daar was 'n beduidende sterk positiewe korrelasie tussen kennis- en houdingtellings, kennis- en praktyktellings, en houding- en praktyktellings (r=0.812, r=0.812 en r=0.834, onderskeidelik). Chi-kwadraattoetse het verbande tussen kennisvlak en ouderdom, beroep en opvoedkundige vlak getoon (p<0.01). Ouderdomsgroepe 20-25 jaar en 26-30 jaar was minder geneig om goeie kennis te he in vergelyking met die ouderdomsgroep 46-45 jaar (ru-kansverhouding (OR) = 0.31, 95% CI [0.12 - 0.79] en OR = 0.37 , 95% CI [0.14 – 0.92] onderskeidelik). Ingeskrewe verpleegkundiges was minder geneig om goeie kennis te he in vergelyking met verpleegbestuurders (OR = 0.15, 95% CI [0.06 – 0.41]). Deelnemers met diplomas was minder geneig om goeie kennis te he in vergelyking met diegene met meesters- en doktorsgrade (OF = 0.11, 95% CI [0.03 – 0.43]). Meer as 70% van die deelnemers het sterk saamgestem dat hulle kennis van hul BMI, hul ervaring in die behandeling van vetsugtige pasiente en hul huidige kennis van vetsug hul kennis, houdings en praktyke rakende vetsug kan verbeter. Verder het meer as 70% van die deelnemers sterk saamgestem dat opleiding oor vetsug en die beloning van verpleegkundiges wat vetsugtige pasiente
toepaslik behandel hul kennis, houdings en praktyke rakende vetsug kan verbeter. Slotsom: Die vlakke van kennis, houdings en praktyke rakende vetsug onder verpleegkundiges was laag. Dit is aanbeveel dat die instellings vetsugopleiding en vetsugmentorskapprogramme vir hul verpleegsters moet instel, asook om belonings aan verpleegkundiges te bied wat vetsugtige pasiente toepaslik bestuur.Master
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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