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The Food-Related Moral Experiences of Children with Swallowing Difficulties: A Participatory Hermeneutic Ethnography
No full textBackground: Food is an essential need for everyone. It is a source of sustenance, an occasional indulgence, and a way to define oneself within a culture. Appropriate nutrition is considered a right for every child. Children’s experiences—including their food-related experiences—can shape their understandings of themselves and the world around them. Their experiences with food can affect the fulfillment of their nutritional and other eating-related needs. For this reason, it is important to understand how children with swallowing difficulties experience food as well as the factors that influence these food experiences. Sameroff's Transactional Model of Development, which emphasizes the role of environmental factors in a child’s development, sees psychological and social development as a dynamic process that results from the interaction between children and their environment. An important influence on children’s experiences is the child’s relational environment (e.g., between families/caregivers and children). Examining children’s relational environment can help advance understandings of children’s food-related experiences and help improve services for children with swallowing difficulties since little is known about these experiences.
Research Purpose: To advance knowledge about food-related moral experiences of children with swallowing difficulties.
Objectives: 1) To explore the food-related moral experiences of children with swallowing difficulties; 2) To analyze how interactions with families/caregivers affect these experiences.
Methods: Participatory hermeneutic ethnography was used for this study. This methodology helps identify what is particularly meaningful for these children and other people within the study settings, as well as the local imaginaries and institutional norms, structures and practices. A six-month participatory hermeneutic ethnography was conducted in the city of Genoa and Milan in Northern Italy. The study settings included participants’ homes and schools, where these children usually have meals. Eight children with swallowing difficulties from 7 to 11 years old and their families participated in the study. The participatory approach within the chosen methodology promoted the involvement of children and their families, caregivers and healthcare professionals. Multiple data collection methods were used and integrated (e.g., participant observation, interviews, documents analysis). Data collection and interpretation were conducted simultaneously. A Childhood Ethics interpretive framework guided the analysis and interpretation of (a) moral experiences of children, (b) family and caregiver influences on these experiences, as well as (c) the social context of healthcare.
Results: The results showed that food-related moral experiences of these children are strongly influenced by the context where they usually eat, including environment, time, space, people, food type and their specific swallowing difficulty. Also, these children need different levels of support during mealtimes that is provided mainly by family/caregivers and healthcare professionals or assistants that know these children very well. Children are mostly aware of their condition and the help they need and at the same time they have a strong will to be accepted and included in social activities with their peers.
Implications: This study helped develop a better understanding of children with swallowing difficulties’ food-related moral experiences and the families/caregivers’ interactions related to these food-related moral experiences. This research contributed to advancing knowledge related to the food-related moral experiences of this population of children, and understanding of their real needs, which can inform the development of intervention improvements that they require. Also highlighted was the need for specialized healthcare professionals to care for these children within community and hospital settings
PO07 - Is the 'children's and young people's audit policy tool' (CYAPT) useful to evaluate the variables of child and family-centred care? Comparison among nurses' perceptions from different countries
No full textTheme: Accreditation and quality improvement Introduction: Most of the nurses know the principles of family-centred care (FCC) and can define it. However, we need to investigate their real perceptions about this philosophy of care
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
Transgender people's experiences of hospitalization: a qualitative metasynthesis
Full text linkAim
To identify, synthesize, and interpret the scientific literature on the experience, perspectives, and feelings of transgender people during hospitalization.
Design
A qualitative metasynthesis.
Data Sources
PubMed, CINAHL and PSYCHINFO were consulted in March 2024.
Methods
A literature review was conducted following Sandelowski and Barroso's four-step metasynthesis methodology. The article selection process was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Studies were selected based on the objectives of the review, pre-established criteria and quality appraisal. A thematic analysis was conducted after extracting relevant quotations and a metasynthesis table was created to compare quotations and analyse overarching themes.
Results
Twenty-two studies were included after screening titles and abstracts, full texts, and references. Three themes were identified: ‘Perception of self-identity’; ‘Misgendering’ and ‘Lack of staff training and awareness’.
Conclusion
Transgender people's healthcare experiences during hospitalization were mainly negative, delayed or uncomfortable. Misgendering and lack of awareness of transgender issues among healthcare workers generated anxiety and frustration. Key aspects of care for transgender people need to be included in all training programs for health professionals.
Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care
There is a need to increase education and awareness among healthcare professionals towards transgender people's needs during hospitalization ensure high quality care
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