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sj-docx-1-sjp-10.1177_14034948221075021 – Supplemental material for Immigrants’ perspectives on healthy life and healthy lifestyle counseling: a focus group study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sjp-10.1177_14034948221075021 for Immigrants’ perspectives on healthy life and healthy lifestyle counseling: a focus group study by Maliheh Nekouei Marvi Langari, Jaana Lindström, Pilvikki Absetz, Tiina Laatikainen, Jussi Pihlajamäki, Tanja Tilles-Tirkkonen and Hannele Turunen in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health</p
Changing activity behaviours in vocational school students: The stepwise development and optimised content of the ‘Let’s Move it’ intervention
No full textNelli Hankonen, Pilvikki Absetz & Vera Araújo-Soares (2020) Changing activity behaviours in vocational school students: the stepwise development and optimised content of the ‘let’s move it’ intervention, Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 8:1, 440-460, DOI: 10.1080/21642850.2020.1813036
Background: School-based interventions that sustainably increase physical activity (PA) are lacking. Systematic and participatory, theory and evidence-based intervention development may enhance effectiveness of complex behavioral interventions.
Aims: To illustrate a stepwise process to develop intervention targeting PA and sedentary behavior (SB) among older adolescents.
Methods: Two established intervention development frameworks (Intervention Mapping and Behaviour Change Wheel) were integrated, leading to a comprehensive evidence and theory based process. It was informed by empirical studies, literature reviews, expert and stakeholder consultation, including scenario evaluation and component pre-testing.
Results: After problem specification (step 1), behavioral diagnosis (step 2) identified a variety of determinants in the domains of capability (e.g. self-regulation skills), motivation (e.g.outcome expectations) and environmental opportunities. These were organized into an intervention theory integrating several formal theories, including self-determination theory. Theory-aligned principles guided material design (Step 3). Feasibility RCT allowed optimization into a final intervention protocol (Step 4).
Conclusions: Intervention elements directly and indirectly target students by changing teacher behavior and the school and wider environment. A systematic development and optimization led to a high potential for sustainability. This description provides a practical, hands-on example of intervention development process. The detailed intervention content, with specification of hypothesized mechanisms, allows replication and adaptation
Lost in translation: overcoming the barriers to global implementation and exchange of behavioral medicine evidence
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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
The effect of lifestyle intervention on diabetes prevention by ethnicity: A systematic review of intervention characteristics using the TIDieR framework
Full text linkLifestyle intervention is effective in preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but the efficacy of intervention components across different ethnic groups is less clear. This systematic review examined the effects of intervention characteristics of lifestyle interventions on diabetes incidence and weight loss by ethnicity using the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) framework. MEDLINE, EMBASE and other databases were searched for randomized and nonrandomized controlled trials on lifestyle interventions (diet and/or physical activity) in adults at risk of T2DM. Ethnicity was categorized into European, South Asian, East and Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African groups. Forty-five studies (18,789 participants) were included in the systematic review and 41 studies in meta-analysis. Meta-analysis showed a high number of intervention sessions was significantly associated with a greater reduction in diabetes incidence (P = 0.043) and weight (P = 0.015), while other intervention characteristics including intervention provider and delivery format did not alter the outcomes (all P > 0.05). Additionally, narrative synthesis showed long-term interventions (≥12 months) were associated with significant diabetes risk reduction for all ethnic groups, while short-term interventions (<12 months) were more effective in weight loss in most ethnic groups. There may be ethnic preferences for the optimal number of intervention sessions.Mingling Chen, Gebresilasea Gendisha Ukke, Lisa J. Moran, Surbhi Sood, Christie J. Bennett, Mahnaz Bahri Khomami, Pilvikki Absetz, Helena Teede, Cheryce L. Harrison, and Siew Li
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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