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Exploring gender impact on collaborative care planning: insights from a community mental health service study in Italy
Full text linkIntroduction: Personal recovery is associated with socio-demographic and clinical factors, and gender seems to influence the recovery process. This study aimed to investigate: i) differences in the recovery goals of men and women users of a community mental health service in Italy; ii) any differences by gender in recovery over six months using the Mental Health Recovery Star (MHRS). Methods: Service users and staff completed the MHRS together at recruitment and six months later to agree the recovery goals they wished to focus on. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and ratings of symptoms (BPRS), needs (CAN), functioning (FPS), and functional autonomy (MPR) were collected at recruitment and six months follow-up. Comparisons between men and women were made using t-tests. Results: Ten women and 15 men completed the MHRS with 19 mental health professionals. Other than gender, men and women had similar socio-demographic, and clinical characteristics at recruitment. Women tended to choose recovery goals that focused on relationships whereas men tended to focus on work related goals. At follow-up, both men and women showed improvement in their recovery (MHRS) and women were less likely to focus on relationship related goals, perhaps because some had found romantic partners. There were also gains for both men and women in engagement with work related activities. Ratings of functional autonomy (MPR) improved for both men and women, and men also showed improvement in symptoms (BPRS) and functioning (FPS). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that collaborative care planning tools such as the MHRS can assist in identifying individualized recovery goals for men and women with severe mental health problems as part of their rehabilitation
Proprietà psicometriche della Scheda di Monitoraggio del Percorso Riabilitativo (MPR). [Psychometric properties of the Monitoring of the Path of Rehabilitation (MPR) Form.]
No full textScopo. Il corretto inserimento degli individui con disturbi mentali nelle strutture residenziali psichiatriche (SRP) e il monitoraggio del loro percorso nelle stesse risulta una criticità non compiutamente risolta del sistema italiano. Per ovviare a tale criticità si utilizzano alcuni strumenti validati che per lo più valutano il funzionamento/disabilità del paziente in setting aspecifico, mentre nella platea internazionale non sono stati predisposti strumenti che valutino l’autonomia funzionale dei pazienti psichiatrici ospiti in SRP. Il Dipartimento di Salute Mentale di Verona ha creato la Scheda di Monitoraggio del Percorso Riabilitativo (MPR) con l’obiettivo di valutare l’autonomia funzionale dei pazienti per inserirli e monitorarli adeguatamente nei loro percorsi residenziali. L’obiettivo di questo studio è testare le principali proprietà psicometriche della Scheda MPR. Metodi. Lo studio delle proprietà psicometriche della Scheda MPR è stato articolato in tre passaggi: una valutazione condotta a distanza di più di 15 giorni da due valutatori indipendenti su 18 casi clinici per indagare la riproducibilità dello strumento (test-retest); un test dei 18 casi clinici da parte dei due valutatori per misurare la concordanza tra valutatori (inter-rater); una misurazione della validità concorrente utilizzando la Scala di Funzionamento Personale e Sociale. Otto professionisti hanno compilato un questionario di gradimento inerente all’accettabilità della Scheda MPR. Le analisi di inter-rater e di test-retest sono state condotte utilizzando coefficienti di correlazione intraclasse. La validità concorrente è stata studiata tramite il coefficiente di correlazione tau-b rank di Kendall e l’accettabilità tramite un’analisi delle frequenze. Risultati. L’affidabilità inter-rater e test-retest sono risultate buone, così come la validità concorrente e l’accettabilità. Conclusioni. I dati presentati in questo articolo dimostrano che è possibile misurare l’autonomia funzionale dei pazienti ospiti nelle SRP italiane utilizzando la Scheda MPR.Purpose: The correct placement of people with mental disorders in psychiatric residential facilities (PRF) and the monitoring of their progress in these facilities is a critical issue that has not been fully settled in the Italian system. To overcome this problem, some validated instruments are used, which mostly assess the patient's functioning/disability, while no instruments have been set up to assess functional autonomy in patients with a psychiatric disorder residents in RFs. The Verona Department of Mental Health has created the Monitoring of the Path of Rehabilitation (MPR) Form with the aim of assessing the functional autonomy of patients to admit and monitor them adequately in their residential pathways. The aim of this study is to test the main psychometric properties of the MPR Form. Methods: The study of the psychometric properties of the MPR Form consisted of three steps: an evaluation conducted more than 15 days apart by two independent evaluators on 18 clinical cases to investigate the test-retest reliability; a test of the 18 clinical cases by the two evaluators to measure the inter-rater rieliability; a measure of convergent validity using the Personal and Social Functioning Scale. Eight professionals completed a satisfaction questionnaire regarding the acceptability of the MPR Form. Inter-rater and test-retest analyses were conducted using intraclass correlation coefficients. Convergent validity was investigated using Kendall's tau-b rank correlation coefficient and acceptability using a frequency analysis. Results: Inter-rater and test-retest reliability were good, as well for concurrent validity and acceptability. Conclusions: The data presented in this article demonstrate that it is possible to measure the functional autonomy of patients in Italian SRPs using the MPR Form
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
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact of Recovery-Oriented Practices in an Italian Community Mental Health Service: A Pilot Study
Full text linkBackground: Over the past decade, Italy has made progress in adopting recovery-oriented approaches in mental health care, though full alignment with international guidelines remains incomplete. This study investigates the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of integrating recovery-oriented practices in an Italian Community Mental Health Service (CMHS), focusing on both user and professional perspectives to identify strengths and areas for improvement. Methods: A longitudinal pilot study was conducted at the South Verona CMHS. Data on users' socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, symptoms, functioning, needs, and autonomy were collected at baseline and six-month follow-up. Participants included individuals in supported accommodation and outpatient care. The Mental Health Recovery Star (MHRS) assessed recovery progress. Qualitative data from focus groups and interviews captured users' and professionals' experiences. Results: Nineteen professionals completed the MHRS with 25 users, who demonstrated significant improvements in MHRS scores (p = 0.003), romantic relationships (p < 0.001), employment (p < 0.001), functioning (p = 0.015), psychopathology (p = 0.001), functional autonomy (p = 0.003), and unmet needs (p = 0.026). Qualitative findings emphasized the value of a personalized, holistic approach but noted gaps in follow-up and shared decision-making. Focus groups (30 participants) highlighted recovery as a process of hope, meaning, and empowerment. Participants called for ongoing education, structural changes, and peer-support initiatives. Professionals reported increased motivation. Conclusions: Integrating recovery-oriented practices within the South Verona CMHS was both feasible and acceptable. The MHRS positively impacted service users' personal recovery and professionals' motivation. The study underscores the need for continued training, structural reforms, and peer-support initiatives to foster lasting changes and enhance CMHS practices
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
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