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Healthcare professionals´ perceptions of sexual health conversations with patients in a palliative stage : A literature review
No full textBakgrund: Palliativ vård fokuserar på att stödja individens värdighet och välbefinnande fram till livets slut, oavsett ålder eller diagnos. Syftet är att lindra lidande och bibehålla livskvalitet. Palliativt skede kan sträcka sig allt emellan flera år till endast några dagar. Sexuell hälsa är en del av den allmänna hälsan och ett livslångt välbefinnande. Sexlusten hos patienten kan minska och påverkas av sjukdom, behandlingar och olika symptom, vilket inte betyder att patienten har slutat ha behov av närhet och ömhet. Patienter uttrycker behov av att vårdpersonal lyfter frågan om sexuell hälsa och vårdpersonalen är medveten om patientens problem. Trots det undviker de flesta att nämna ämnet i samtalet. Genom samtal kan vårdpersonal ge stöd och hjälp till patienten kring frågor gällande sexuell hälsa. Syfte: Syftet med litteraturöversikten var att belysa vårdpersonals uppfattningar om vad som påverkar samtal kring sexuell hälsa med patienter i palliativt skede. Metod: En litteraturöversikt med kvalitativ design och induktiv ansats baserad på resultat från 13 vetenskapliga artiklar. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys enligt Lundman och Hällgren Graneheim (2017). Resultat: Resultatet bygger på fem kategorier och 12 underkategorier. De fem kategorierna är följande: “Normer som påverkade samtalet”, “Förhållanden inom organisationen som påverkade samtalet”, “Betydelsen av kompetens i samtalet”, “Demografiska förhållanden som påverkade samtalet” och “Vårdrelationens betydelse i samtalet”. Slutsats: Det finns flera hinder som försvårar för vårdpersonal att samtala om sexuell hälsa med patienter i palliativt skede. Vårdpersonalen ser en möjlig förändring för vissa hinder medan andra omständigheter är betydligt svårare att påverka. Implementering av personcentrerad vård på arbetsplatser där patienten, med sin livsberättelse, får en självklar plats i teamet kan medföra förändring. Betydelsefullt är fortsatt arbete, med att öka vårdpersonalens medvetenhet om deras ansvar och skyldigheter gentemot patienten i frågan kring sexuell hälsa. Background: Palliative care focuses on supporting the dignity and well-being of the individual until the end of life, regardless of age or diagnosis. The aim is to relieve suffering and maintain quality of life. The palliative stage can last anywhere from several years to just a few days. Sexual health is part of overall health and lifelong well-being. A patient's sexual desire can decrease and be affected by illness, treatments, and various symptoms, which does not mean that the patient has stopped needing closeness and tenderness. Patients express a need for healthcare professionals to raise the issue of sexual health and healthcare professionals are aware of the patient's problems. Despite this, most avoid mentioning the topic in conversation. Through conversations, healthcare professionals can provide support and assistance to the patient regarding issues related to sexual health. Aim: The purpose of the literature review was to shed light on healthcare professionals' perceptions of what influences conversations about sexual health with patients in the palliative stage. Method: A literature review with a qualitative design and inductive approach based on results from 13 scientific articles. A qualitative content analysis according to Lundman and Hällgren Graneheim (2017). Results: The results are based on five categories and 12 subcategories. The five categories are as follows: “Norms that influenced the conversation”, “Conditions within the organization that influenced the conversation”, “The importance of competence in the conversation”, “Demographic conditions that influenced the conversation” and “The importance of the care relationship in the conversation”. Conclusion: There are several barriers that make it difficult for healthcare professionals to discuss sexual health with patients in the palliative stage. Healthcare professionals see a possible change for some barriers, while other circumstances are much more difficult to influence. Implementing person-centered care in workplaces where the patient, with their life story, has an obvious place in the team can bring about change. Continued work to increase healthcare professionals' awareness of their responsibilities and obligations towards patients in matters of sexual health is important.
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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