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Fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease: Understanding research needs through an exploratory narrative review
Get PDF© 2019 MA Healthcare Ltd Aims: To summarise the main findings from research on current understanding of fatigue in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods: A narrative review of relevant literature corresponding to IBD fatigue was conducted. Results: IBD fatigue is multidimensional and has a complex aetiology. The subjective nature and the lack of a standardised measure of fatigue add to the challenge of developing suitable and effective management methods. Although IBD fatigue is highlighted as a top-five priority research area by N-ECCO, it remains a complex and relatively unexplored area, especially when considering health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and patient experience. Conclusions: Research on the pathogenesis of IBD-related fatigue, effective measurement and its impact on IBD patients will allow the discovery of predictors of severe fatigue that requires clinical intervention, as well as the development of clear treatment pathways and structured support for IBD patients
Exploration of the impact of inflammatory bowel disease fatigue on the health-related quality of life of adults
Get PDFBackground: Fatigue is a frequently reported symptom of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), experienced by patients with active disease and when in remission. Fatigue related to chronic conditions plays a significant negative role in health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but patients’ experience of this have not been researched in IBD.
Aim: To explore patient experience of IBD fatigue and its impact on HRQoL in adults diagnosed with IBD.
Methods: A systematic literature was undertaken to explore the impact of IBD fatigue on HRQoL in adults. Search terms were developed and combined encompassing concepts of ‘Fatigue’, ‘IBD and ‘HRQoL’. A narrative synthesis was conducted.
To explore patient experiences of the impact of IBD fatigue on HRQoL, qualitative, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with adults with Crohn’s Disease in remission, recruited from out-patient clinics in the UK. Eligibility and medical history were confirmed at recruitment. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse data using NVivo 12 software.
Results: Eleven publications were deemed eligible for inclusion in the systematic literature review. Studies revealed experience of fatigue was significantly related to three HRQoL areas; symptom acceptance, psychosocial factors and physical activity.
Interviews of 14 adults with IBD fatigue revealed that there were three key themes that reflect the patient experience:
’The new normal’ established through adaptation to, and acceptance of, IBD fatigue impact on daily life.
’Energy as a resource’ describes participants attempts to better manage fatigue through planning and prioritising tasks. ‘Keeping healthy’ encompasses participants beliefs that good nutrition, good general health and keeping active permit them to better manage fatigue.
Conclusion: Adults with IBD fatigue try to establish a sense of ‘new’ normality. However, this is often at the expense leisure activities. The study also indicates that conservation of energy through planning and prioritising tasks and high levels of social support were associated with better self-reported HRQoL. Further research is required to explore physical activity-based intervention in relation to IBD fatigue
Exploration of the impact of inflammatory bowel disease fatigue on the health-related quality of life of adults
Get PDFBackground: Fatigue is a frequently reported symptom of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), experienced by patients with active disease and when in remission. Fatigue related to chronic conditions plays a significant negative role in health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but patients’ experience of this have not been researched in IBD.
Aim: To explore patient experience of IBD fatigue and its impact on HRQoL in adults diagnosed with IBD.
Methods: A systematic literature was undertaken to explore the impact of IBD fatigue on HRQoL in adults. Search terms were developed and combined encompassing concepts of ‘Fatigue’, ‘IBD and ‘HRQoL’. A narrative synthesis was conducted.
To explore patient experiences of the impact of IBD fatigue on HRQoL, qualitative, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with adults with Crohn’s Disease in remission, recruited from out-patient clinics in the UK. Eligibility and medical history were confirmed at recruitment. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse data using NVivo 12 software.
Results: Eleven publications were deemed eligible for inclusion in the systematic literature review. Studies revealed experience of fatigue was significantly related to three HRQoL areas; symptom acceptance, psychosocial factors and physical activity.
Interviews of 14 adults with IBD fatigue revealed that there were three key themes that reflect the patient experience:
’The new normal’ established through adaptation to, and acceptance of, IBD fatigue impact on daily life.
’Energy as a resource’ describes participants attempts to better manage fatigue through planning and prioritising tasks. ‘Keeping healthy’ encompasses participants beliefs that good nutrition, good general health and keeping active permit them to better manage fatigue.
Conclusion: Adults with IBD fatigue try to establish a sense of ‘new’ normality. However, this is often at the expense leisure activities. The study also indicates that conservation of energy through planning and prioritising tasks and high levels of social support were associated with better self-reported HRQoL. Further research is required to explore physical activity-based intervention in relation to IBD fatigue
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
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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