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Programmi per la riduzione dello stigma: le linee guida della World Psychiatric Association
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Apri le porte e libera la mente...: un percorso di sensibilizzazione verso i disturbi mentali rivolto a studenti e insegnanti di una scuola superiore nella città di Brescia
No full textIntroduction More and more evidences show that people suffering from mental disorders are addressed to the treatment some years after the onset of early signs of illness. This delay represents one of the most important factors that causing a bad prognosis. It seems to depend, both to the lack of knowledge on mental health and to the absence of specific programs for the prevention, early treatment and promotion of mental health. Methodology Students and teachers were enrolled in a project composed by information/sensitization meetings, using experiential and interactive techniques, with the aims to identify and to increase the knowledge about mental disorders and to decrease false beliefs and stereotypes. To evaluate the effectiveness of the project, we used instruments created ad hoc for students and teachers. Results 115 students and 33 teachers were involved. These results concern the preliminary data on the students target group only. Most of the students are able to recognize the name of mental disorders. After the meetings, decrease the number of students who think that people with psychosis are dangerous and increase the number of those who think that exist effective therapies for the treatment of people suffering from psychosis. However, there are still many students who believe that only few people with psychosis can be treated. In all three times, only half of students also believes that people suffering from psychosis should be able to have a job. Conclusion we think that a widespread information in specific target groups and the engagement in a training where students and teachers are active protagonists represent the key to reduce prejudice and to approach people to mental health services, when needed
Development, reliability and acceptability of a new version of the DSM-IV Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS) to assess routine social functioning
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Development of a scale to assess patients' social functioning, the Personal and Social Performance scale (PSP).
METHOD:
PSP has been developed through focus groups and reliability studies on the basis of the social functioning component of the DSM-IV Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS). The last reliability study was carried out by 39 workers with different professional roles on a sample of 61 psychiatric patients admitted to the rehabilitation unit. Each patient was rated independently on the scale by the two workers who knew them best.
RESULTS:
The PSP is a 100-point single-item rating scale, subdivided into 10 equal intervals. The ratings are based mainly on the assessment of patient's functioning in four main areas: 1) socially useful activities; 2) personal and social relationships; 3) self-care; and 4) disturbing and aggressive behaviours. Operational criteria to rate the levels of disabilities have been defined for the above-mentioned areas. Excellent inter-rater reliability was also obtained in less educated workers.
CONCLUSION:
Compared to SOFAS, PSP has better face validity and psychometric properties. It was found to be an acceptable, quick and valid measure of patients' personal and social functioning
La percezione dello stigma dal punto di vista delle persone che soffrono di schizofrenia
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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
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
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