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Attitudes towards the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease carers and non-carers
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The primary focus of studies on preferences regarding the disclosure of Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses has been the preferences of AD-carers. Relatively few studies have investigated such preferences in other groups, nor have the reasons behind such preferences been widely or systematically investigated. \ud
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Objectives \ud
To provide some preliminary data on AD-disclosure preferences among non-carer older adults and to compare this data to that of AD-carers; to investigate reasons underlying disclosure preference among carers and non AD-carers, and; to explore the level of AD knowledge among carer and non-carer samples and investigate its relationship with disclosure preferences.\ud
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Methods \ud
Participants were 20 elderly adults who were not caring for a relative with AD, and 16 older adults who were caring for an AD relative. Participants completed a modified AD knowledge test and a test designed to measure the reasons for and against disclosure of an AD diagnosis. \ud
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Results \ud
AD knowledge among AD carers was significantly higher than among non-carers. Views about disclosure of AD diagnoses did not differ between groups though generally opinions were pro-disclosure (at least 85% of the overall sample opted for disclosure). No significant differences were found when preferences for disclosure for oneself versus a significant other were compared. Similar reasons for disclosure were given by carers and non-carers, and included factors such as the persons’ right to know their diagnosis.\ud
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Conclusions \ud
Older Australians overwhelmingly supported disclosure of AD diagnoses, whether or not they had previously been through the diagnostic process
The Queensland Hubs study : child care and family services in rural and regional communities
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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
Knowledge of Alzheimer’s Disease among patients, carers, and noncarer adults: Misconceptions, knowledge gaps, and correct beliefs
No full textBackground: There is limited previous research that has examined level of Alzheimer's disease (AD) knowledge and misconceptions using a structured questionnaire across a range of samples. To address this gap, the current study investigated knowledge, knowledge gaps, and misconceptions about AD in a sample of noncarers, caregivers, and individuals with AD. Method: A modified version of the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge (ADK) test was administered to 13 carers, 20 noncarer older adults, and 10 people with AD. Two sets of analyses were undertaken, first to identify group differences in the amount of knowledge reported by each group and second, to determine the nature of people's understanding of AD. Results: Overall level of knowledge in the 3 groups was quite poor. Although carers had significantly greater AD knowledge than noncarers or patients, carers correctly answered approximately 50% of items only. Relative to noncarers and AD patients, carers demonstrated a higher number of commonly held correct beliefs than participants in the other 2 groups, who held relatively few correct beliefs. All 3 groups had some misconceptions about AD. Conclusions: These findings suggest not only that education programs targeting the elderly community in general and AD patients specifically may be needed, but also that carer knowledge of AD could be further improved. Future educational interventions could be tailored to address the knowledge needs of each of the groups identified in this study. In particular, the need to address misconceptions and knowledge gaps shared by more than 1 group should be a priority
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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