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The relationships among depression, marital satisfaction, and cardiac recovery in the days and months posthospitalization for myocardial infarction and unstable angina.
No full textFifty-three male myocardial infarction and unstable angina patients hospitalized in a V.A. Medical Center were assessed for depression, marital satisfaction, and several other psychosocial risk factors while in the hospital. Thirty patients were again assessed between five and eight months post-discharge. Results indicated that myocardial infarction and unstable angina patients did not differ statistically on any of the psychosocial or recovery measures, and, therefore, appear comparable in terms of psychosocial functioning. Among the baseline sample (N = 53), the incidence of major depression was nearly six times greater than the general adult male population. Findings indicated that higher degrees of depression at baseline and at follow-up were associated with poorer recovery. Social support at baseline was also found to be significantly correlated with the recovery measure. Preliminary analysis suggested that the MIRFI Marital Satisfaction and Depression subscales related significantly to their parent measures. Proposed explanations for the findings, as well as implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed.The current study sought to build upon existing literature by examining the relationships among depression, marital satisfaction, and cardiac recovery from the time of hospitalization to 5-8 months post-discharge for myocardial infarction and unstable angina. To better illustrate the theoretical linkages between depression, marital satisfaction and cardiac functioning, a causal pathway model was created as a framework to aid research and clinical practice. A self-report instrument (Myocardial Infarction Risk Factor Inventory: MIRFI) was also devised to screen for five of the more recognized psychosocial risk factors linked to heart disease and impeded recovery (depression, marital satisfaction, Type A, hostility, and social support). To assess recovery, the Myocardial Infarction Recovery Index-Short Form was also created by the author as an adaptation from a measure first proposed by Utz and Beach (1988). Unlike previous research, both myocardial infarction and unstable angina patients were studied, and special attention was paid to the interaction of depression and marital functioning as it relates to cardiac recovery
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Life Experiences, Perceived Stress, Social Support and Mental Health Services: Military and non-Military College Students
No full textThis study was conducted to examine potential differences between military and non-military undergraduate students on their life experiences, perceived stress, perceived social support, and likelihood of seeking mental health services. Additionally, it looked at whether or not life experiences, perceived stress, and perceived social support predict the likelihood of seeking mental health services, and if social support plays a role in mediating the effects of life experiences and feeling stressed. A sample of 101 undergraduate students was utilized for this study. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance was used to examine the effect of the two groups on four dependent variables, and if these effects were impacted by assessing gender as a covariate. The results showed no significant multivariate effect for the group or for the covariate, gender. The first Multiple Regression analysis indicated that the set of predictor variables (life experiences, perceived stress, and perceived social support) did not predict the likelihood of seeking mental health services. The second Multiple Regression analysis indicated that perceived social support is a partial mediator between life experiences and perceived stress. The results of this study indicate that military undergraduate students appear to be doing at least as well as non-military undergraduate students
Failure to protect: An analysis of variables in a sample of hospital-referred child abuse and neglect cases.
Get PDFThe sample consisted of 805 children presenting at Children's Hospital of Oklahoma (CHO), a large urban children's hospital, affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and serving children from across Oklahoma. All 805 children in this study were identified as victims of abuse and neglect. The case records of these children were analyzed for the effects of several independent variables (family histories of domestic violence, alcohol and substance abuse, prior Child Protective Services involvement, child age, type of case, and different referral versus reporting sources) in correctly classifying cases confirmed as failure to protect (FTP, n = 201) on the part of a non-perpetrating parent vs. cases in which FTP was ruled out (n = 604). Logistic regression analysis yielded a model that correctly classified 37.88% of FTP cases and 92.96% of non-FTP cases. The variables of "family history of violence", "sexual abuse case" and "difference between disclosure and referral source" were found to contribute significantly to the model. Analysis on demographic and case outcome variables was also conducted. Limitations of the study are answered, as well as implications for further research. Findings yielded a model that can assist Child Protective Services workers and other professionals in identifying at-risk cases for FTP
CBT, ICT, and combined treatments for depressed married women: A two year follow-up.
Get PDFThe current study is a two year follow-up of women who had received 12-sessions of individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), conjoint integrative couples therapy (ICT) and a combined (CBT/ICT) treatment for depression. At the end of this treatment all three modalities resulted in significant and meaningful improvement in depression (BDI and HAM-D) and marital distress (DAS) with no differences between the three treatments. The results of the follow-up included both quantitative and qualitative analyses. All women were improved two years post-treatment when compared to pre-treatment level of adjustment. While each woman re-experienced feelings of depression, social support and willingness to seek future treatment differentiated between those who were considered to have non-relapsed and those who relapsed
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