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Testing the efficacy of a school-based tobacco and supari cessation intervention in Mumbai, India
No full textBackground
Tobacco and supari (areca nut or
betel nut) use has been reported with a high prevalence among students in
secondary schools in Mumbai, India. Supari, which is classified as
carcinogenic, is one of the most widely consumed addictive substances in India
after nicotine, ethanol and caffeine.
A study was conducted to evaluate
the efficacy of a school-based psychosocial intervention for all forms of tobacco
and supari cessation among students.
Methods
A quasi-experimental trial with
three measurements - at baseline, Post-test1 and Post-test2 was conducted in 12
schools serving students with similar socioeconomic profile in 2015-16. Six
schools were randomly selected for the cessation intervention and 6 matching
schools were selected based on location and medium of instruction in comparison
group. In the interventions schools, students who self-reported tobacco or
supari use at baseline were assigned to receive a 6-session group cessation
intervention designed specifically for adolescents and school settings. All schools
receive a life-skills and tobacco prevention program called Super-Army.
Results
1313 students completed the
baseline in intervention schools; 212 self-reported tobacco/supari use, of
which 133 enrolled and received both Super-Army in classroom and 6 psychosocial
cessation sessions in group setting. In comparison schools, 1320 students
completed baseline; of which 191 reported tobacco/supari use and received only
the Super-Army prevention messages in classroom.
At Post-test 1,
conducted 4 weeks after sessions ended, reported use in intervention schools
dropped by 30% and in comparison schools by 28%. At Post-test 2, conducted 16
weeks later, in intervention schools self-reported use dropped further by 45%.
This was significantly different from comparison schools where users dropped by
13%.
Conclusions
Although classroom-based
life-skills curricula have an immediate impact on tobacco/supari use, the
addition of a specialized cessation intervention, even if psychosocial in
nature without replacement therapy, seems to have a durable effect on reducing
use
Analysis of Strategy in the Development of Siti Fadilah Supari Main Clinic of PKU Muhammadiyah Palu
No full textThe main clinic is one of the health service institutes that gives merit of health services like basic medical and specialized service to all public members such as one daycare and home care. This research aims at finding out the strategy system of development of Siti Fadilah Supari main clinic of PKU Muhammadiyah Palu. This research is a descriptive one that used a qualitative approach. The number of informants, and in this research is 3 people consisting of one key informant, one common informant, and one additional informant of the main clinic of Siti Fadilah Supari of PKU Muhammadiyah Palu. Research findings show that the strategy used to develop, based on human resource, facility and infrastructure, organization structure, fund resource, marketing, and environment has been good enough, however, there are some points in their implementations in the field that have not been maximally carried out at the main clinic of Siti Fadilah Supari of PKU Muhammadiyah Palu. In this research, it is concluded that the main clinic of Siti Fadilah Supari of PKU Muhammadiyah Palu seen from using SWOT Analysis was very good in the strategy of clinic development, but in the technique of implementation at the field has not been maximal, therefore it is necessary to prepare more massive strategy in all aspects so that quality of clinic can be increased and can develop more advanced
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
Gambaran Penentuan Tarif Layanan Kesehatan di Poliklinik Gigi pada Klinik Siti Fadilah Supari Pku Muhammadiyah Kota Palu: An Overview of Health Service Rate in Dental Polyclinics on Siti Fadilah Supari Clinic, Pku Muhammadiyah Palu
No full textPenentuan tarif yang keliru dalam klinik tentu akan berdampak buruk bagi keuangan organisasi klinik dan memberikan nilai negatif dalam profit klinik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran penetuan tarif pelayanan kesehatan di poliklinik gigi pada klinik Siti Fadilah Supari PKU Muhammadiyah Palu. Jenis Penelitian adalah deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Penentuan informan dilakukan dengan teknik purposive sampling. Data dikumpulkan dengan metode observasi langsung dan wawancara. Data penelitian menggunakan data primer dan sekuder. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa penentuan tarif layanan dilakukan dengan cara pengambilan nilai tengah antara tarif layanan di Puskesmas dengan tarif layanan di Rumah Sakit. Penetapan tarif tersebut dilakukan tanpa perhitungan biaya satuan terlebih dahulu sebagaimana yang ditetapkan dalam peraturan pemerintah
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