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Study of public attitudes towards antidepressant treatment.
No full textStudies show that pre-existing beliefs about antidepressants and public stigma attached to mental health can play an important role in not taking this medication or taking it not as prescribed. Good adherence to antidepressant treatment is important to improve therapeutic outcomes and to avoid relapse in patients suffering from depression. Aim of the study: to analyse beliefs about antidepressant treatment among participants of this study and to determine if there is relationship between these beliefs and sociodemographic characteristics of the participants, beliefs about depression, having personal history of antidepressant use, duration of depression. Material and methods: people in popular social network Facebook groups in Lithuania were asked to fill out anonymous online questionnaire. The participants had to rate how they agree with provided statements about antidepressant treatment using 5-point Likert scale. Participants were also asked to rate on the scale from 1 to 10 how anxious they would feel about possibility of having frequent side effects listed on drug package leaflet. At the end of the survey participants were asked to write their opinion about antidepressants in a free-form text field. 473 filled out questionnaires were received. Results: 40.6% participants of this study strongly agreed with the statement that using antidepressants is an effective way to relieve symptoms of depression, and only 3.2% strongly agreed that treatment with these drugs causes irreversible side effects on the body. Participants with higher education and living in big cities of Lithuania were statistically significantly more likely to agree with the statement that the benefits of antidepressant treatment outweigh the possible harm or side effects of these drugs. Conclusions: majority of participants of this study believe that antidepressants are effective and that the benefits of using these drugs outweigh the potential risks. When prescribing antidepressants to a patient it is important to create cooperative doctor-patient relationship with follow-up appointments, to provide information about the drug and to discuss what to do if any side effects happen
Stress level of healthcare professionals in Lithuania: what factors could be influencing it? /
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Carfentanil related deaths in Vilnius region 2014-2019: an overview on a growing problem /
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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
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